@BobBlur I'm still noodling the ramifications of this ie L2 Broadcasts vs L3 routing, but something like this should be a good start. By default TPlink routers enable inter-VLAN routing, so you will...

@Duble08 Thanks for the thorough and thoughtful post. I want to bring this to @Hank21 and @Clive_A attention as I think it certainly warrants some investigation.

@Fozzie Bear You can set up the 7212 independently, just power it up and connect your laptop to a LAN port. You'll get an IP and be able to access the controller setup. Be aware that the 7212 is not...

@Liftboy Ok that's some good detail. I have two further suggestions: 1. configure the IP information on the Fritz box statically (ie fix IP/subnet and DNS and you can use 8.8.8.8 for fun) just make...

@BobBlur Also, since I don't have the luxury of a 60km ethernet cable, so I just set up a L2TP/IPsec VPN from Site2 and used the 'network extension' mode to allow certain subnets on either side to...

@BobBlur You should be ok to x-connect the user VLANs this way, you just need to ensure that you don't reuse IPs on both sides, but that each site router is aware of the VLANs being shared so it can...