Re: Seeking LAN Setup advices

Thank you for suggesting an alternative solution but this sounds too 
complicated and risky to me especially have to touch the firmware. I am 
also not familiar with Vlan setting. I will try to figure out why the 
connection via Linksys WRT310N wifi router is so much slower than via 
fixed line. I will deploy the 2 wifi router+switch solution which I can 
understand. I learnt that Linksys WRT310N has been superceded by 
WRT320N. Anyone has experience with this model to share or can recommend 
other reliable brand and model suitable for a small network?

Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
> There is no need to physically separate the networks. You just need to 
> create two vlan's using 802.1q tagging.
>
> The 310N is capable of doing this, but you may need to put openwrt 
> (http://openwrt.org) firmware on.
>
> Essentially you will have
>
> <Internet>-Cisco:877:Vlan:0001 & Vlan:0002
>
> Attach tagged Vlan0001 port to your existing wireless, and Tagged vlan 
> port 0002 to your new wireless.
>
> Alternatively you don't even need to buy any additional hardware. You 
> can have multiple essid's off the Linksys, and send the tagged vlans 
> to the linksys, and then seperate them out.
>
>
> On 28 April 2010 16:00, helim <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Dear experts,
>
>     Currently my office LAN setup is one common network for both
>     office staff and the PCs in Computer Lab. We also have a Linksys
>     WRT310N wireless router which is only for staff but we want to
>     install another wireless router for students. The broadband is
>     provided by M1 Connect (originally by Qala which was acquired by
>     M1 last year) with 2MBPS fix IP with CISCO 877 router with ADSL
>     function. I would like to re-configure the LAN to separate into 2
>     sub-nets such that the staff's sub-net is better protected from
>     potential access by students or visitors. Can any experienced
>     network experts provide some advice? Thank you very much.
>
>     Yours sincerely,
>     H. E. Lim
>
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