VLANs / Multi SSID with WA1201 - Wifi not connecting for VLAN ID other than 1
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Hi all,
I'm quite new to this kind of setup, but for the life of me, I spent hours on this already and can't seem to figure it out, so I'm hoping a kind soul here can help me out.
I'm trying to setup a network at home with 4 different VLANs: a private one, one for my company which is in the same building, a guest network and a separate VLAN for IoT. Each VLAN shall get its own WiFi network (and corresponding SSID).
In order to do that, I'm using 3 TL-SG108E switches and 2 TL-WA1201 access points for wifi. I believe the setup of the switches went ok (I followed explanations on this site and in the manual, mostly, and it appears to work, at least for the parts I already tested), but when I try to setup the APs, things get messy. I did manage to get 4 different SSIDs (actually 8, considering 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bandwidths), but if I change the VLAN ID corresponding to the SSID, none of my device seem to manage to connect. They do connect however if I keep them configured on VLAN 1, which is the default VLAN... but doing so would, in my understanding, defeat the very purpose of having VLANs in the first place.
There must be something I'm doing wrong, but I really can't figure it out. Any idea ? The setup is as follow (and switch config screens attached below):
- Switch 1:
- Port 1 - Router (VLAN 1, Untagged)
- Port 2 - Switch 2 (VLAN 1, Tagged)
- Port 3 - Access Point 1 (VLAN 1, Tagged)
- Next ports in different VLANs for private and IoT (untagged)
- Switch 2:
- Port 1 - Switch 1 (VLAN 1, Tagged)
- Port 2 - Switch 3 (VLAN 1, Tagged)
- Port 3 - Access Point 2 (VLAN 1, Tagged)
- Next ports in different VLANs for private and IoT (untagged)
- Switch 3:
- Port 1 - Switch 2 (VLAN 1, Tagged)
- Next ports in different VLANs for private and company (untagged)
Switch 1 config:
Switch 2 config:
Switch 3 config:
Many thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
Benibis
@terziyski Thanks for your quick answer.
First link is one of the examples I followed to create my switches setup, I do believe I got it all right (but feel free to point any mistake that I may have missed).
Second link I also saw, but my hardware version is v3, so the beta version linked in there won't apply. Some official from TP-Link also mentioned in that thread that v3 shouldn't be affected by the issue anyway.
Below is my setup for the APs (both are exactly identical). If you need other screens, let me know.
... and so on for the other 2 VLANs.
Changing the VLAN value to 1 makes it possible to connect to the corresponding SSID, but as I said before, I doubt this is the fix I want :)
Thanks!
Benibis
