Well, I have a fairly simple network set-up.
I’m connected to the fiber network of my city, so a fiber enters my house, into a tp converter box with 8 100 mbit outputs.
From that I have connected one IPTV box and two routers; one separate router for a small apartment that I rent out (totally separate from my house network, so we can just ignore that one).
The other router, a Netgear WNDR3700, is my main router, and has both 2,4G and 5G WLAN, and gigabit on LAN/WAN. This one does port routing to my linux server, and a VoIP phone. Nothing fancy. Then from there on to gigabit switches and a PoE+ switch powering the access control system and some cameras and the Vera.
My linux server does DHCP, DNS and NTP for my LAN and the WLAN on the WNDR3700.
On the LAN, I also have other devices such as the Sonos players.
Prior to the Vera3 arriving, I had my Vera2 as a second WLAN AP to get good WLAN coverage in the house. The Vera2 wlan devices also got DHCP from my linux box.
Everything was great. My android phones/tablets and portable computers could connect to any of the two devices as needed. All devices where on the same subnet. The Sonos app and widgets on the portable devices worked regardless where I was in the house. As one would expect.
Enter Vera3.
First of all, when I read the thread ‘Vera as a bridge’ I realized that this is not what I wanted, hence my cancellation request to mios.
But as it arrived, I figured that I could probably live with the shortcomings if I rearranged my wireless devices (cameras and itach IR transmitter), so they would connect onto my WNDR3700, even if they where ‘on the edge’ range-wise.
So I upgraded to the Vera3 (went smooth), and simply substituted the Vera2 with the Vera3 (I have a great position for it in the middle of the house, in a in-wall-built cupboard so z-wave coverage is optimal). The Vera is powered using a PoE splitter to make less cabling. Nothing is connected onto the LAN of the Vera.
So now I intend to only use the Vera3 for portable devices which are not servers. Like laptops, Asus TF Prime and smartphones. But when I do, Sonos does not work any more. That is, the apps does not connect to the Sonos players anymore when the phones (etc) are connected to the Vera3. Everything else works on the phones (skype, internet browsing, spotify and watching videos on my linux box.
But since controllng the Sonos is one of the most important thing that one can do with a wireless device in my house, it is a show stopper if this does not work. I guess it is some uPnP routing issue on the Vera3?
Which is why was thinking about how mios where actually thinking when they took away the both the AP (bridge) functionality and the router configuration.
Since it cannot bridge therefore cannot be a true access point, one needs to put it first in the line of routers in order to get all devices on the same subnet. And then one have the option of enabling the built in firewall which cannot be controlled, or leave all wireless devices totally open from the internet side. I must be missing something… !
As there are talks about gigabit internet access in my area right now, I’d rather not use the Vera as my main router, since it only has 100mbit on its interfaces, but if there’s a way of configuring the firewall with port mapping, maybe I could live with only 100mbit internet when my neighbors gets gigabit. 