@damnit , if your router is not VLAN capable, it is going to be pretty limiting. What are you trying to achieve?

@ASD_AuZ , as long as you don't think you still have a management network... Dealing with a management network is actually easier without a tp-link gateway because you don't have to tell the gateway...

I have a few of these switches (all 8 ports but only 2 strictly identical) under control of an OC200. I have local DNS via OPNSense (ditched my ER-605v1 that was EOL. Lack of local DNS was one of the...

@Clive_A , Well, the OP in this thread and the OP in the linked thread both failed to get past ~250. In my reply #9 on the linked thread, I mentioned another thread I had found with that reply from...

@PISD , ER605 can make local network for 500 ip? - Business Community (tp-link.com) Somehow, ER605s seem to have a DHCP hard limit around 250, regardless of the network size...

@Sheep_Dog , I agree with GRL, your understanding of VLANs is incomplete to say the least. The entire point of VLANs is to reuse a single physical network and overlay logical networks (VLANs) on top....