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also setting up the dns server to point to your main router. i was doing the same thing but on a TP Link router. that was my solution. the forwarding and dns

does turning on DHCP relay on the second router make it work?

Thx and will do. I was constrained by cost and needed to do it quick to get WiFi to all the rooms yea also one of the issue is upload speed. going to combine 2 ISP in the future "Some switches can't maintain full wirespeed on all ports simultaneously" this what i was thinking but didn't know if it was fact. "Get a gigabit switch. Dumb unmanaged switches are cheap." so like even though some of my peripherals aren't gigabit the overhead in the switch network speed between the ports wont cause a bottleneck... right? On the VLAN thing Can i get VLAN working on the same subnet? do i need to use seperate Lan socket for each VLAN? if yes, can i plug the two sockets to the same switch and give my peripherals static IP to set which VLAN they can access? thank you all for the replies.

Background info. I'm running a small family owned hotel (in a remote village in Indonesia) and i have 15 IP cameras and 3 AP for guest, all connected to the same switch. This 8 port 10/100. (TL-SF1008D) One port connects to the internet router (load balance), One of the port is used by the IP camera DVR/PC (using ISPY) and goes from 20 - 30 Mbps (not recording) to 60 - 70 Mbps (When all recording) plus on top of that i have 3 AP. connected to the same switch and each limited to 10 Mbps. and one AP for the family (at least 3-4 devices at one time). Problems come when the hotel is full, the guest complain that their internet is choppy, the connections from the PC to the some of the IP cameras drops and the family AP also suffers. So what I'm asking is, is my conclusion right that my problems comes from the fact that i have too much bandwidth going through this one switch and that i should buy another switch and separate the IP camera and AP connections. i'm asking this is because I didn't want to waste money on something that wouldn't help and just sit in storage. thanks in advance for the help.