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by doubled112 1402 days ago
My work laptop and phone get a VLAN and virtual SSID all for themselves and people wonder why.
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How do you set this up? pfSense?
That's what I do, although with OpnSense, but that's that easy part. Also, a cheap managed switch works well enough for this purpose.

The main issue I had was that most "consumer" access points don't support multiple SSIDs with separate VLANs. In the end, I went with a Netgear WAX something that can support 4 SSIDs, each with a dedicated VLAN (+ a separate management VLAN). But it's more expensive than "normal" APs with similar performance.

I've got a Mikrotik hEX and Mikrotik hAP AC2 that do the job, with few enough wired devices I don't even bother with a managed switch anymore.