bozden  Freshman Member

Thank you again for sharing your expertise... From what I learned I can deduce the following: * Existing two managed switches are sufficient, as they can be extended by unmanaged switches. * A new AC router will be nice, I'll check the options. On the other hand, we only have 100 Mbps cable here, nothing higher is possible…

Sorry saw your last post after my late-posting, now reading it... One quick Q... If I want to extend my (say) office network with an unmanaged switch: * I plug the unmanaged switch to port 1 of managed switch * Set PVID of the managed switch port 1 to VLAN 192 Will all computers connected to the unmanaged switch behave…

@TimThom , thank you ! Very good points and directions. I very much appreciate your time. It seems I need to redesign it completely, your comments and diagram helps a lot... But, before I move, I want to make some comments and need some clarifications, if you have time and don't mind: Comments: * In my previous setup I had…

Hi Derrick, thank you for your time and confirmation. I applied this setting last night and found the problem I was dealing was related to firewall / routing on the server (at least I think, too many tries). One side note: I was assuming the switches would be aware of the VLAN/segment they are in. The managed switches…