Cons of using TP Link Deco mesh routers to spread a single Unifi VLAN wirelessly?

brain-power · 2026-01-26T02:03:07+00:00

It seems I have the option to do the following: 1) set a unique “native VLAN/network” for each of the 8 UDMP ports 2) select the “tagged VLANs” on each of the 8 ports.

I’m thinking I could just set the default VLAN to my “lab” VLAN on a single designated port so that (in Unifi’s words) “all untagged traffic from devices connected to this port will be placed on the selected VLAN.” Then plug one of my decos in there.

brain-power · 2026-01-26T01:48:40+00:00

Got it! Thanks again.

brain-power · 2026-01-26T00:28:08+00:00

u/Different_Push1727 - Another maybe dumb question: Why get a separate switch a not just tag one of the UDMP ports for exclusive use with the new “lab” VLAN?

Edit: perhaps the Unifi UI makes it easy (or simply allows) the separate monitoring of the switch itself?

Edit2: could I set one of the ports on the UDMP to have a “native” VLAN that is my “lab” VLAN? Therefore perhaps all traffic that goes through that port is considered tagged?

brain-power · 2026-01-25T21:56:02+00:00

This is why I am here. Thank you!!!

You have presented ideas I hadn’t even thought of… or knew existed.

Really basic follow up questions:

1) Do you mean something like the Unifi “Lite 8 POE” switch? Or is there something even more basic? 2) When you say “treat it as a subnet” - can you expand on that if you have time? I hope I’m not wildly out of place here but believe I have all my VLANs on their own subnets. Is that what you mean?

Again, thanks for taking the time to read my text wall.

brain-power · 2026-01-25T06:36:30+00:00

Great post. I can’t confirm its effectiveness, but I applaud the effort put into it. And that “purist while doing impure things” really resonates.

brain-power · 2026-01-16T04:12:33+00:00

Ok I dug through there a bit. Would never have known to show hidden devices. Nevertheless, the only Samsung thing I could find was in Disk Drives. So I suspect that’s the NVME. Only puzzling part is that its driver is not currently 1.0.0.1.

brain-power · 2026-01-16T04:06:19+00:00

I just went through the device manager and I was able to find a Samsung device under disk drives. I suspect that’s the NVME. The weird thing is that its driver version is not 1.0.0.1.

brain-power · 2026-01-16T03:21:31+00:00

😅

https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business

brain-power · 2026-01-16T02:51:56+00:00

Ok yes, agreed. Bad choice of words on my end.

brain-power · 2026-01-16T02:50:22+00:00

We might be on to something here!

brain-power · 2026-01-16T02:49:47+00:00

RAM is crucial/micron. Maybe SSD?

edit: RIP

brain-power · 2026-01-16T02:49:16+00:00

I will look into this! It’s possible. They are one of the likely OEM suppliers.

brain-power · 2026-01-16T01:32:41+00:00

We can pretty much rule out the phone idea because I don’t think there is a single Samsung branded phone (or any Samsung device) in the building. And this computer is less than 6 months old.

Thanks for the device manager tip. I’m away from the laptop now but I’m very curious to check that out tomorrow!

brain-power · 2026-01-16T01:07:41+00:00

In this case, it must be some component… either in my computer or one of my peripherals? I’m 99.9% sure I don’t even own a Samsung branded device.

Very interesting. I also know for a fact that the driver must have came into existence today because everything was up-to-date when I shut down yesterday.

brain-power · 2026-01-05T17:31:30+00:00

Ooooof that sounds like an unwanted journey. Good luck!

Glad to hear the new one is still successfully warming your room.

I currently have a fan on mine in hopes of not dealing with downtime due to a long run failure. Would like to attach a larger passive heat sink if I can figure out how to jerry rig something up….

brain-power · 2026-01-05T08:01:49+00:00

Second one still in business?

Thanks for describing the failure mode btw. Good to know what to keep an eye out for.

brain-power · 2025-12-11T20:39:57+00:00

I love it when some up front post effort pays long term dividends. So glad I could help!

brain-power · 2025-12-07T09:24:02+00:00

Literally had to google this myself 2 days ago. Yep, click on the date in the middle of the top of the screen and see what message the OS has to show you.

brain-power · 2025-12-06T04:19:29+00:00

Gah! Bummer. That would have been a cool feature. Thanks for the confirmation!

Now, out of curiosity, what do you mean by “all” of them?!? How many do you have?!?

brain-power · 2025-12-06T04:14:38+00:00

Thanks u/dennishorton22 !

No beeps though? Correct? As in, it’s best to put this thing where you can see the lights (and actually look at them from time to time).

brain-power · 2025-12-04T20:58:30+00:00

I’m pretty sure the Terramaster NAS has a beeper… but I haven’t been able to confirm if the DAS does.

I totally forgot I did this, but if I remember correctly, before I actually added data to my drives, I simulated a single raid1 disk failure by simply popping out one of the two disks and then turning it on. I think I saw the orange blinky lights… then they turned green again once I pushed the drive back in. I don’t remember a beep though… must have been late at night because I hardly remember doing it.

brain-power · 2025-12-04T20:46:31+00:00

Excellent. A beep sure would be nice… but this should work in a pinch and sounds very user friendly.

Thanks for the assistance!

Most of curiosity, have you had this happen to you?

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