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New to Netgear : what devices should I look at?

ltrlng
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New to Netgear : what devices should I look at?

Hello,

New to Netgear, I am exploring the idea to buy Netgear Orbi Pro APs for a small office (3 APs + switch), 15 to 20 people.
ISP provides a FTTH connection with ~ 600Mb/s bandwidth.
The switch will also receive direction ethernet connection of 4 VoIP phones.
Usage is : VoIP, Google Meet, browsing, file exchange, Team Viewer mainly...

I would like the APs to broadcast 2 SSIDs : MyCompany-Staff & MyCompany-Guests

People connected to MyCompany-Guests will have their traffic reach the internet through our ISP directly, while people connected to MyCompany-Staff will be tunnelled to a VPN (SSTP) and reach the Internet through the the provider of the VPN service.
MyCompany-Staff will have no limit in usage.
MyCompany-Guests may be capped to a max of 50Mb/s usage in total.

Is there a way to separate the traffic of these two SSIDs in VLANs and setup and maintain a SSTP VPN connection on Netgear Orbi Pro devices?
Can it be done in the APs or should a specific device (which one) be added at the edge of the network before the ISP router?

Thanks for your help,

ltr

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FURRYe38
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Re: New to Netgear : what devices should I look at?

What is the size of your home business building? Sq Ft?
What is the distance between the router and 📡 satellite(s)? 30 feet or more is recommended in between RBR and RBS📡 to begin with depending upon building materials when wirelessly connected.
https://kb.netgear.com/31029/Where-should-I-place-my-Orbi-satellite 📡

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ltrlng
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Re: New to Netgear : what devices should I look at?

Thanks for your reply @FURRYe38 !

 

The building is on one level only, approx 1200 sq ft, rather elongated rectangle shape : approx 80 x 15 ft.

The router would be in the middle and the satellites on each side of the rectangle, at a distance of let say 30 ft from the RBR.

 There is a brick wall in the path of the signal from the RBR to the two RBSs.

 

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After reading the description of the product, I am not completely sure if the RBS are connected to the RBR by a wire or by a dedicated wifi channel. Or perhaps both can be done?

 

And about the VPN, can the RBR initiate a SSTP VPN session and tunnel the traffic into it? (not for Guest SSID)

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Regards,

 

ltr

 

 

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ltrlng
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Re: New to Netgear : what devices should I look at?

Hello @FURRYe38 

 

I would like to come back to you to have your feedback about the VPN client. 

Is there one built in Orbi devices ?

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FURRYe38
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Re: New to Netgear : what devices should I look at?

For that size of home just a Orbi router alone would be good enough or maybe with just one RBS. Having too many RBS in a smaller size home may cause problems or be problematic at least. 

 

https://kb.netgear.com/000064367/Which-NETGEAR-devices-support-Insight-Business-VPN?article=00006436...

https://kb.netgear.com/31489/How-do-I-use-VPN-on-my-Orbi-system-with-my-iOS-device?article=31489

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