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I'd be wiring the APs just so I could force stuff to a bunch of different SIDs and channels... and then back to a managed switch and one or more routers (with next-gen firewalls) to try and isolate it all properly.All the little things add up these days with everyone piece of electronics going IoT. Dyson fans, Canary/Arlo camera's, Sonos speakers, Amazon Alexa devices, ect. are always on, always connected for the most part. Thankfully mesh systems can handle everything these days and I don't have to wire APs all over the house.
Bunch of power users here.
I am not about the smart home life at all - don't trust those companies whatsoever.
I have 3 devices in my house on wireless. Cell phone, table and laptop.
Everything else is hardwired.
hmm ..that's a good idea keeping thermostat on it's own VLAN ..that and my other Alexa friendly devices .. hmm ..I am generally skeptical of all things IOT, and try to use wired Ethernet when possible for as much as I can, so for me, more than like 10-15 devices is "a lot".
Right now on my network I have the following wireless devices:
- Two Smartpohones
- Two Tablets
- Two Laptops
- One Nest Thermostat (isolated on it's own VLAN)
So, a total of 7.
Everything else (and there is a lot) is wired Ethernet.
I'd imagine that many consumer routers might run into problems if you get more than 255 devices. They generally use the 192.168.1.xxx private address block, with a CIDR notation of /24, so that means you get 8 bits, or the last block of addresses.
At least that was the case when I used to use consumer routers, but I have been using pfSense so long now that I have no idea what the current generation looks like.
SSID, subnet, VLAN... put IoT in the deepest hole you can dig.hmm ..that's a good idea keeping thermostat on it's own VLAN ..that and my other Alexa friendly devices .. hmm ..
hmm ..that's a good idea keeping thermostat on it's own VLAN ..that and my other Alexa friendly devices .. hmm ..
SSID, subnet, VLAN... put IoT in the deepest hole you can dig.
I have a Netgear Nighthawk router. How can I create separate subnets? The first horse may be out of the barn, but I don't want the other horses to follow.Yeah, I have everything I don't trust on separate VLAN's with their own subnet.
The Samsung Smart TV is alone on its own network, as is the Vizio Smart TV.
There is one dedicated network just for NEST devices.
And then there is one dedicated network just for Fitbit devices.
I know it would be better to not have these things at all, because they are still collecting data and sending it to the mothership, but this is at least something I can do.