VLANs at Home — Building a Segmented Network From Scratch

Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

My home network had everything on one flat subnet for years. Laptops, phones, a desktop, a NAS, a couple of smart plugs of questionable origin — all of it talking to everything else with nothing in between. It worked, but it wasn’t a network so much as a free-for-all.

I finally sorted it out properly. Two VLANs — one for wired trusted devices, one for WiFi. Here’s the design and what the subnetting decisions looked like.

Switching on Andy Als

VLANs at Home — Building a Segmented Network From Scratch