Ive got 2 x rb433 and 1 x rb433ah, all 3 boxes contains 2 x R52Hn. My ISP provides upto 4 public ip adresses pr modem. Im moving into a house which has a rental apartment over the garage, and i would like that the rental apartment gets its own public ip on its own rb433 (with that making wlan1 wirelessly bridged to the rb433 at main site and wlan2 + ether1-3 bridged as the rental apartments own wireless / cabled network). (and of course i just discovered that all these boxes “only” has 100mb connection, so i guess i should buy a RB435G or RB493G, any suggestions on which? perhaps 493G since it has more lan ports for use? anyway)
site1 (between isps modem and my router) : rb433 with 2 x R52Hn, ether1 connected to isps modem, ether2 connected to uplink/wan port on my rb3011, ether3 connected to lan port on my crs125.
Desired function: transparent / non routing / no nat “switch” between my rb3011 and site 2 and site 3, but also giving site 3 access to my own network. Im hoping to “bridge” the two R52Hn in this one to gain more throughput to site 2 and 3, if thats not possible, maybe its better to use wlan1 for site 2 and wlan2 for site3 ?
site2 (rental apartment): rb433 with 2 x R52Hn, wlan1 bridged to site1´s wireless bridge, wlan2 bridged with ether1-3 with own local network and wireless network with i.ex. ssid “example” and standard encryption.
site3 (for network in the garage for access to my own network, therefore ether3 on site1 connected to CRS): rb433 with 2 x R52Hn, wlan1 and wlan2 bridged to site1 / wlan1 bridged to site 1 and wlan2+ether1-3 for access to my house network.
There was the explanation, any suggestions on configuring this setup? i guess 2.4ghz is best in this scenario, since the garage / apartment over the garage is only 10-15meters away from site1?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions of configurations or improvements on the idea.
Wires are the best, not WiFi. Use all the devices as bridging access points only with virtual ap interfaces bridged to vlans and do all the routing and natting things in the 3011. You do not need to dedicate any ap just for the guests or for you, all can be transmitting all the ssid at once and you can roam in between…
Use secondary radios for 5 GHz band and let the clients to use it if possible.
Cabled / wired from house to garage is not possible / an option. The setup is planned something like in this picture. Cabled between isps modem and the first rb433 / rb493, cabled from rb433/rb493 to rb3011 and wireless from from the rb433/rb493 to the other rb433´s
Can you use Power LAN adapters? It depends on quality of the line, the phases, speed of internet etc…
And most of the times when people say “it is NOT possible to run a cable…”. Most of the times they do not exit their “comfort zone”, and do not think “outside the box”.
have you considered to run a cable outside the house, for example behind a rain pipe? That pipe usually runs from roof to ground. Take a weather resistant UTP cable, or use outdoor fibre. It is better to invest 5 hours of mounting, renting ladders etc… and then forget for the next 10-15 years the whole set-up, in stead of having it corrected every week or so.
To clarify the part “cabling is not an option”
I am renting the house, and the owner does NOT want any drilled holes anywhere, which i intend to respect. Though it would made things 200 times easier just to put a tube in the ground and put up network points here and there. I can only use existing cabling tubes inside the house. I did try to explain that having endpoints here and there would be much better for the future also, since more and more is based on network and cat5e / cat6 etc etc. But he doesnt understand these things. I even suggested getting a friend who is electrician to come and do the job so he could be assured that patching panel and stuff would be done by proffesionals, and i could pay for it, even that he was negative about.
