New house networking help

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ubern00b

ubern00b

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Hi all

I am buying a property that has the master socket in a cupboard under the stairs (FTTC). The property is also networked with 1 ethernet socket per room and also terminating under the stairs. My existing network consists of a Draytek Vigor 130 connected to an Amplifi HD router.

I obviously don't want the Amplifi under the stairs for Wi-Fi signal reasons and I can't replace the system yet (I have another 2 x Amplifi HD routers as mesh nodes) so looking for the simplest way to do what I want which is to have the primary Amplifi HD in the lounge. I may be overthinking things, but this is what I have come up with:

I could purchase 2 managed switches that support VLAN's (looking at TP-Link TL-SG108E). Create 2 VLAN's, 1 = WAN and 2 = LAN. Assign VLAN 1 to port 1 on each switch, assign VLAN 2 to ports 2-7. Port 8 is a trunk. Connect the Vigor to port 1 in the switch under the stairs, connect port 8 to the patch panel that leads to the lounge. In the lounge connect the wall to port 8 on the switch. Connect port 1 on the lounge switch to the WAN port on the Amplifi. Any LAN devices can then use ports 2-7. This should work, right?

OR am I massively over-complicating things. Could I purchase 2 dumb switches, plug everything in and it will also just work because: broadcasting?

Thanks :)
 
I guess I missed off some stuff. Yes it terminates into a patch panel but I want to plug all the other rooms into a switch under the stairs and the other mesh nodes I have, utilise ethernet backhaul on (from whatever room I put them in). So if I do as you say I can't do that. Sorry, should have included that info.
 
I am hoping that my area will get FTTP at some point (Openreach map says the area I am moving to is due between 2021-2024!) so would prefer to keep the network Gbit at the least. FTTP is PPPoE too, right?
 
Hey, thanks for trying it! I guess I'll use one of my routers under the stairs and the other 2 dotted around the house. Probably won't be as bad as I can utilise ethernet backhaul now.

Thanks for all the suggestions and ideas.
 
WJA96 said:
I’ve just tried it with a dumb switch and it doesn’t work. Vigor 130 into a Mikrotik RB5009 and it was fine direct but it didn’t like going through a switch.
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I read a thread on Reddit that the dumb switch won't work if you have a local DHCP server as that will fight with the ISP DHCP server and will reply first to a request (being local, quicker to respond etc). Made sense to me.

I picked up 2 of the TP-Link switches I was looking at as eBay had a 15% off code and I needed the switches anyway so I'll set them up with my VLAN idea and give it a go. If for no other reason than pure interest hehe.
 
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