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VLAN Port 4 not showing

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• January 20, 2025 at 3:08 pm #6589
  texas25

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  Hi,

  VLAN Port 4 does not show up. I only have Ports 1-3.

  January 20, 2025 at 3:10 pm #6592
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  @texas25 The PW-AX1800 has 3 LAN ports. The fourth port is WAN.

  January 20, 2025 at 6:09 pm #6593
  texas25

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  I need help setting up network segregation. I have one desktop computer that is connected via ethernet to the router in Port 1. I would like it to be isolated from the rest of the network. Port 2 and Port 3 do not have anything connected but may be used in the future to connect a laptop or TV.

  My remaining devices are wireless and I set them up to be isolated from each other.

  What do I select for Port 1, 2, 3? I assumed LAN but I tried this and the desktop had no internet.

  Unrelated:
  I can’t add additional VLANS. The “+” does nothing.
  I set Cipher to AES. But when I save it reverts back to “auto.”

  Thank you.

  • This reply was modified 3 months, 1 week ago by texas25.
  January 20, 2025 at 10:12 pm #6595
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  First of all, you should have Internet no matter which VLAN you choose for the Ethernet port. But don’t tag the port though. And make sure that your computer is using DHCP, not static IP address.

  For VLAN assignment, the basic idea is to put your most secure devices on LAN. Other devices go to other VLANs.

  By default, devices on LAN can talk to each other, can initiate communication with devices on other VLANs, and can log in the router. Devices on other VLANs have access only to the IP address page and the Ad block control page on the router – they can’t see the login page.

  So if your desktop PC connected to LAN port 1 is a trusted device then port 1 should be assigned to LAN. If it’s a risky device that provides services to the public Internet, then it should be assigned to another VLAN and be isolated from the rest of your network.

  For WiFi, you can create up to 4 SSIDs each band, assigned to different VLANs. It’s a know bug that Cipher always displays “Auto” even when configured as “AES”. This will be fixed in the next update (coming soon).

  January 21, 2025 at 12:46 am #6596
  texas25

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  Could you explain what you mean by not “tagging” the port?

  Do I have to create anything else to isolate the only device, a desktop, that will be plugged into one of the three ports via ethernet?

  Where do I check DHCP?

  I can’t add additional VLANs. The “+” button does nothing. I had only created three VLANS. I can not add a fourth.

  When connecting wireless devices to the VLANs I created do I input the “key” or password I created for that VLAN or do I use the wireless password?

  If X1 is a laptop that is used both wireless and via ethernet does that mean that I would have to assign one of the three ports on the router to “X1” to keep it isolated? I am having trouble understanding the relationship between the Ports and the VLANs I have created. All of my VLANs have been isolated from one another.

  Thank you

  • This reply was modified 3 months, 1 week ago by texas25.
  • This reply was modified 3 months, 1 week ago by texas25.
  January 21, 2025 at 3:20 am #6599
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  Let’s talk about WiFi first.

  You can have up to 4 SSIDs per band for WiFi. The WiFi for the LAN network always exists and cannot be deleted. So you can add up to three SSIDs per band. After that the “+” button is no longer active.

  Let’s say you added an SSID “guest-wifi” to the Guest network with WiFi password “youarewelcome”, then when you connect a device to that SSID with the password “youarewelcome”, that device will be on the Guest network (or Guest VLAN).

  Is that clear?

  January 21, 2025 at 8:52 pm #6605
  texas25

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  Yep, I think so.

  Could you answer the other questions, please?

  Thank you.

  January 22, 2025 at 6:21 pm #6610
  texas25

  Participant

  Are there instructions online showing how to set-up this router?

  January 22, 2025 at 8:23 pm #6611
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  Here are some guides: https://www.pcwrt.com/support/

  Back to your original questions:
  1. Tagging: on the Network Settings page, under the VLAN section. There’s a checkbox named “Tagged”. You check the box to “tag” a port. You don’t want to check this box unless you are connecting another router or a VLAN aware switch to the port.

  2. DHCP: your computer is configured to use DHCP by default. I.e., it will ask the router to assign it an IP address etc. But sometimes people change the network settings on the computer for it to use a specific IP address (i.e., a static IP address).

  3. VLANs: on the router, VLANs are assigned to the LAN ports or WiFi SSIDs. When you connect a computer to a LAN port on the router, the computer will be on the VLAN assigned to that port. When you connect a computer to an SSID, then the computer will be on the VLAN associated to that SSID. Let’s suppose that LAN port 1 is assigned to the “LAN” network and SSID “pcwrt-x1” is associated with the “X1” network. When you connect a computer by Ethernet wire to port 1 AND connect by WiFi to “pcwrt-x1”, then your computer will be on both the “LAN” and “X1” networks (for example only. I don’t see why you would want to connect a computer that way).

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