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Configure a secure guest wireless network using VLANs, firewalls, and throttling

Part 4 of 6 in Complete Ubiquiti UniFi + Synology Network Build

Jay Rogers June 22nd, 2018

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Learn how to create a secure guest wireless network that prevents guests from bringing malicious activity to your network. You’ll also learn how to throttle the guest network down so that you do not worry about your guests using up all of your bandwidth.

See the entire “Complete Ubiquiti UniFi + Synology Network Build” course here: https://srvrsi.de/unifi-and-synology-build-course

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Ubiquiti UniFi Security Gateway (USG)

This is the router that we use to connect to the internet.

Ubiquiti UniFi PoE Switch (US-48-500W)

This is the switch that provides power to all of our PoE devices.

Ubiquiti UniFi UAP-AC-PRO

This is our wireless access point that we use. It’s faster than Gigabit and it even has a 2nd passthrough ethernet port.

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Securing your network

Configure a secure guest wireless network using VLANs, firewalls, and throttling

Installing the Synology NAS

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