My company wants me to setup an intranet
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You're not actually an employee, right? I would refuse this job if they don't want to use real business equipment. There's no reason to be using that fake business class equipment with Ubiquiti around.
If I remember correctly, the RV110 does not provide the option to do QoS on upload, just download. One person might be able to tank your entire network, VLANs or no VLANs. See if that can get you some budget.
If I remember correctly, the RV110 does not provide the option to do QoS on upload, just download. One person might be able to tank your entire network, VLANs or no VLANs. See if that can get you some budget.
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Lol...That would be my first thought too, but it's because they rather for me to practice and the older hardware. They are aware that I'm not very technical when it comes to networking. Thanks man.
Why?
Thanks mark. Does the switch of to support vlan tagging for communication to take place between vlans, or the router will take care of that?
Yes, it is.
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Important: are you being paid for your time dealing with this? If you are being paid, fine. If you are not being paid, decline - it's easy to be cheap when you're giving away things that belong to other people (e.g. your time).
Personally I wouldn't be that concerned about the switch unless you determine that it just can't do what you need. I'd be much more concerned about the router, EOL and underpowered software-wise even when it was supported is no way to go. I don't personally use them, but I'd suggest an Edgerouter X, Edgerouter or Edgerouter 4 (maybe an Edgerouter Lite, but probably not). At least in the USA you can get the Edgerouter X for roughly $50 - and if the company can't or won't afford that because they'd rather have you spend hours doing it free then yes run away.
In order to get a router without technically having to purchase one.
The RV110W supports VLANs and guest WiFi. The only time things get tricky is when you port forward to a VLAN as you lose VLAN isolation. I've got a few of these in the field. They are/were an easy inexpensive home office router that covered most of the bases.
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They both do vlan's.
I think you need to step back and build a plan first. You have no lab to work with, only production. So if you make a mistake it's in real life.
First draw a logical plan which will define network data flows. I understand the owner wants to do certain things but having all that for just 6 people is quite a bit of overkill. And there are actually 5 departments as you have to have a management vlan.
As I mentioned start with the 110. @trevm999 mentioned look at QoS. For a public internet cafe you will need to have metered connections to make sure everyone has a consistent experience. If you setup and turn on wireless guest and test it. There are some QoS setting but probably not very comprehensive.
The 500 will have much more robust controls but I'm not sure there is a way to send wireless through it because it is down stream of the router
The RV110 has port based QoS (1-4 setting). It does have CoS which gives more control. DSCP is also there but I've never used it. WiFi is assigned to the rules of what ever VLAN port you tag it to.
Thanks once again. I am currently making a logical plan with packet trace just to make sure everything can work, but I'm still trying to gather as much info as possible, and you've been a great help so far. So it will be 5 departments, the mgt vlan being the 5th got.
It's approximately 30 square feet. And I do think it can.
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Don't you mean meters? 30 square feet is about the size of a large dining room table.
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