Hey all, I was wondering if anyone could help me work out how to do this? Basically, I have a stupid number of smart devices and my router has become increasingly unstable. I want to have all my IOT devices on one router and reserve the other for priority devices like phones and PCs.
I plan to put my IOT hub on 2G only and my primary hub on 6G and 6e only to avoid 2G congestion.
Problem is, if I connect both my routers to my modem, only one can connect to the internet. I tried putting a network switch between the routers and the modem, no dice.
Does anybody know how I can have 2 separate networks using 2 separate routers on a single modem? Both require internet connection but they don’t need to be able to communicate.
You don't need 2 routers for this. Place all your iot junk in one vlan and you useful in a second. 2 routers aren't needed for this kind of seperation.
It was more to distribute load rather than separate traffic. My main router seems to start pooping the bed once I have 40+ devices connected to it, so I wanted to reduce the number of devices connected to it to prevent that as I need it to be stable for work… and gaming, haha.
If it’s the WiFi that’s crapping out, get a ubiquiti UniFi 6+ access point. It will handle up to 300 devices for $130. You will need to by the POE adapter for it but it’s ~$15.
I've found cheaper routes tend to crap out due to numbers, not just load. I'm not sure what's actually causing it, but it's not network congestion due to traffic.
Best I can tell, it's overhead congestion. They try and give each device a chance to talk. Unfortunately they don't multitask this well. IoT devices are a little notorious for being slow to respond (because of sleep modes etc). With enough of them, this can leave critical devices with a long lag time before they get a proper window.
Most routers that can handle vlans can more than handle this issue. My ubiquiti router blazes along, and it's under a far worse load than my cheap provider's router was failing under.
I've got the ubiquiti dream machine and it's been bombproof so far.