I’ve made some updates to my home network with the addition of some new hardware.  The key piece is a UniFi Dream Router 7 (UDR7).  I’ve always appreciated routers that provide more control over network configurations, but the UniFi OS and controls provided in this router go over and above anything I’ve ever seen in a consumer/home router.

It did take some planning, and even more time getting the configurations set and working properly.  I found this YouTube video (and channel) to be very helpful in getting everything  configured.

My current network was running off the Telus router and an ASUS ROG AC5300, and a couple Netgear managed switches so that I could implement some VLANS.  With the UDR7, I can create the VLANS within the same management interface, and associate Wifi connections to them as well.  The ASUS router had no VLAN functionality, so I had used some Netgear managed switches with their own interface to provide this – and there was no way to tie a wifi network to the vlan network. The UDR7 completely changes that.