I want to revamp my home network setup with the following features -
Any gotchas/drawbacks with this setup that I should be aware of? Also, please suggest if there are any must have/usually sought after/good to have features I should be looking for.
What are my options for a router and a switch for this kind of setup? One obvious option is to use pfSense as router, but I don’t have any old system for that.
- VLAN support so that I can segregate my home network.
- Inter VLAN routing so that I can allow one-way/two-way communication between two VLANs or block it completely.
- Limit bandwidth of VLANs.
- PoE+ ports to power WAP/pi etc.
- Gigabit LAN so that I can stream content locally from my media server.
- Gigabit WAN to be future-proof.
- VPN support
- Web GUI for configuration with local user account. I shouldn’t have to register/login to any cloud services for setup.
- Should be able to survive running 24/7 in summer
Any gotchas/drawbacks with this setup that I should be aware of? Also, please suggest if there are any must have/usually sought after/good to have features I should be looking for.
What are my options for a router and a switch for this kind of setup? One obvious option is to use pfSense as router, but I don’t have any old system for that.