tangerz:

 

For VLANs to work, managed switches are required. Different brands can work together no problem.

 

There's a great video here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszGeQPTo4w

 

Thank you for the video, i will watch that slowly. 

Awesome, so that makes things a lot easier when it comes to buying a cheap secondhand switch. 

I do need to have wired devices into separate VLANs, however, most of the devices that needs to be in specific VLAN are all going to be in one location next to the router (NAS, servers etc). So, i assume i could potentially use the routers (GWN7001) 5 ports to achieve this by using a dumb switch right? Eg. configure routers port 1 to use VLAN 1, and use a dumb switch on port 1 and plug in all wired devices i need to go on VLAN 1? and then configure all other ports to be VLAN 2? This way, i could technically get away with not having a managed switch? Is there a way to configure a device to be in both VLAN1 and VLAN2 (eg: nas, i want to be accessible from all VLANs due to needing to setup backups; TV should be accessible from other VLANs so guests can cast things to TV etc)? 

...i do have couple of other devices elsewhere (away from the router) that i would like to be in specific VLAN or be accessible from multiple VLANs, so i will likely need to find a managed switch anyway haha.

Earbanean:

 

tangerz:

 

For VLANs to work, managed switches are required. Different brands can work together no problem.

 

There's a great video here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszGeQPTo4w

 

 

Not necessarily.  If VLAN tagging based on Wifi SSID were all that the OP needs, then a managed switch is not required.  However, if wired devices need to be tagged, then yes you need a managed switch.

 

Yeah not only that, i do ideally want wired clients to be in VLANs too if possible. Good to know that if SSID based VLANs do not require a managed switch!