Why waste your time! Just use ethernet!!

You should not be preparing for Cisco certifications with outdated and old published books as testing has changed a lot. Get on Cisco’s website and see the recommended study material. You also need hands on command line knowledge. There should be online simulators look for them to get hands on. Cisco certifications are worth their weight in gold. If you can get to CCNP level you will definitely be on the road to some good paying jobs if your work skills are good. You will also need firewall skills and certs as well. Good Luck.

Have the latest iphone 15. Doubled my home speed as i have netgear wax 630e AP supports wifi 6e no drops no problems. I have pfsense connected to isp superfast.

Get a pfsense firewall. Setup dhcp and reserve ip based on their mac address. Then google pfsense parental filtering and control

Just get a pfsense firewall i use protectli and a seperate Wireless AP, and a smart switch then you can do all of this.

Use your wan port on your firewall to connect to you isp. Then configure your vlans on your pfsense. Also configure your dhcp for your vlans on your pfsense. Connect your pfsense lan port to your switch. Make sure this switchport is setup as a trunk to support multiple vlans on the wire.

Connect you wifi ap to your switch. Make sure this connection is also set to trunk mode on the switch. Also make sure your ap supports trunks and multiple vlan ids.

I run seperate vlans for my home. I put all of my untrusted devices hue hubs lighting, hue sync box, apple tv, printer, google home, smarthings outlets in an IOT vlan.

Then i have a vlan with my trusted devices iphone, ipad, laptops, servers, nas etc on a protected network.

All of this is protected by a pfsense firewall. I have netgear switches that are managed and support trunking.

I use the pfsense firewall to connect to ISP on wan port and then configure a trunk port to my switch. My pfsense firewall has the vlan networks configured and hands out dhcp to the devices attached to the different vlans for wired and wifi ssids.

I have pfsense firewall rules allowing trusted vlan to talk to iot vlan and internet. The iot vlan has no access to the trusted vlan , but can access the internet.

I run avahi services mdns on the pfsense for allowing the trusted network to browse and connect to devices in the iot vlan… like my printer, hue lighting app, hue sync etc.

I have a wifi ap device that support trunking as well and have two ssids one in iot vlan and one in trusted vlan. On the wifi ap I also had to configure mdns services and setup individual access to my printer, and setup individual access to the hue sync device both of these by putting in the specific ip of the devices.

Everything works great after doing this.

I highly suggest seperating your untrusted iot devices on a seperate vlan with no access to your trusted devices.