VLAN setup on ASUS router

[RBJ2]

I've decided for my dollar range the ASUS RT-AC66U Router is pretty much what I want for now, which is mainly some extra speed over my old Linksys WRT54G & VLAN capability.

I'm looking at some online YouTube menu setups for the aforesaid router, but I didn't really see anything labeled VLAN. Am I assuming correctly that this is all done under the Guest Network menu and it just depends on what you name each created SSID and of course the capability given each ?

I.e. is this in fact where ASUS is doing VLANs or am I missing something?

 

[mv2devnull]

Google says: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/asus-rt-ac66u-and-vlans.9545/

What is the "VLAN capability" that you do expect to get?

Routing (selectively) between more than two subnets does not require VLAN.
Passing more than one subnet through same wire, tagged, does require VLAN.

 

[RBJ2]

Google says: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/asus-rt-ac66u-and-vlans.9545/

What is the "VLAN capability" that you do expect to get?

Routing (selectively) between more than two subnets does not require VLAN.
Passing more than one subnet through same wire, tagged, does require VLAN.

Don't have a clue really. Guess I was looking for a tab that said create VLAN IDs or create Additional SSIDs or something like that. I looked at that link (thanks for posting it) but the setup screens I'm looking at online for the RT-AC66U don't have anything like that under the WAN menu. Possibly you have to flash a different firmware? It does has something that is similar to that wording under the LAN->IPTV but that appears to be for TV setups (?).

Appears (under Guest Network) to have options for 3 SSIDs on 2.4ghz and 3 on 5ghz. So (assuming) along with the main Wireless General menu setup SSID for the 2 bands that's a total of different 8 SSIDs one could create on this router (?).

 

[BadTrip]

By VLAN are you meaning segmented guest networks?

 

[RBJ2]

By VLAN are you meaning segmented guest networks?

Thanks for the reply. I've since been given some excellent links to read and have learned that VLANs are more the tagging of the packets via the router setup or a smart switch setup. This tag is transferred within the packet header and reacted to by some routers or a smart switch.

I was confusing VLANs with multi SSID ability which is not quite the same thing. Albeit multi SSIDs do offer a wireless separation of separate LAN access within the same supporting router, I realize now it's not the same concept as VLAN tagging within the same physical LAN or even same said tagging to other LANs. At my current point of learning I'd say VLANs are more about traffic direction and control over and between one or more LANS.