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Making the switch!

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Scott Chapman

Ok ok, I'm in. 

So I'm specing out a new home network and want to use FWG Pro as my router. I am also going to be specing out wifi access points to use with it. Right now thinking about either Eero 7 or TPLink Deco 7.

Any experience with either of these with FWGP? One thing I am hoping to be able to accomplish is VLAN tagging via wifi.

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    Firewalla

    Both should work nicely with the Pro. Eero 7 for sure does not support VLAN, not sure about Deco 7, never used it.

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    Scott Chapman

    Yea, I'll have to check the TP-Link Deco models. They are definitely cheaper. Overall what has your experience been between the Eero & TPLink Deco devices? My instinct tells me that the Eero would be better quality, perform better, and have better support. But the TPLink is probably just fine and is cheaper.

    The Only reason I am looking for the VLAN tagging is to easily be able to identify IoT devices (put on a separate SSID) so that I can more easily create rules for them. 

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    Firewalla

    My personal choice is eero (if you can afford it), they do have better support and the software been around for a while

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    Scott Chapman
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    Yup. makes sense. thanks.

    One other quick question. I probably need to include a switch in the mix - so there are different ways of wiring that.

    I'd be inclined to wire the firewalla to the switch and then all the eeros and anything else wired (like my NAS) directly to the switch. I assume that just fine?

    (the other way would be to wire the Eeros together and just have the main Eero wired to the switch?)

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    Firewalla

    Eero, you need to do

    main eero -> switch -> other eero

    This is the only trick to make it work nicely. 

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    Scott Chapman

    So firewalla -> Main Eero -> switch -> everything else?

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    akshayrao
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    Is that the recommendation for Deco too (so something like below)? 

    Modem -> FWG -> Deco (main) -> Switch -> Satellite Deco’s.

     

    I want to connect Deco’s in AP mode and over Ethernet backhaul. 

     

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    Firewalla

    You will need to check Deco's documentation on how to do ethernet backhaul. Each platforms may be different

     

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