Comment on Setting up a private network in shared apartment
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
VLANs are lower than IP so you don’t need a router to have a VLAN, but you will need a router to get packets between the networks. I don’t think a WiFi repeater works. You likely need separate WiFi client and AP devices so you can put your WiFi on a different channel. Otherwise you’re probably halving your WiFi performance when connecting to the other network over the same airwaves.
Unless you can convince the other network to route your IP addresses, this setup will give you another layer of NAT and may cause problems with online games.
Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I read about the issue regarding the halved connection speed somewhere but I don’t believe that will be an issue. Considering the average internet speeds here in germany are below 250mbps I don’t expect to saturate the WiFi connection even with half speed. Anything data intensive like accesses to my mediaserver will primarily be over ethernet.