Hey, so I've been working with the aforementioned switch for a week or two, tinkering in an attempt to find a configuration that suits the needs of an apartment I'm living in. Quick disclaimer, I'm not the most tech savvy person, so command line configuring won't be the most effective way for me to go about this, however, the web interface is completely manageable for me. Now onto the problem.
I have 3 separate business lines coming into the apartment from the same company. As much as I would like to upgrade or just have one, let's pretend that's out of the picture. Those each proceed into 3 modems, which, as of now, proceed into 3 routers to distribute the connection to various rooms. What I would like to do, is have the 3 lines (through the routers or not) go into the switch while allowing communication between ALL of the members of the 3 networks (so that, say, a person on network A can access a printer on network C). I've run into problems, however with IP addresses which is why the routers cannot be run directly into the switch themselves. I've looked into VLANs but cannot find a way to split these incoming connections while allowing the members of all 3 networks to communicate with each other.
In summation: 3 modems--> 3 (separate) routers --> Switch (VLANS?) --> Clients (who can all communicate with each other).
Is this even possible? Multi-WAN routers? Link Aggregation and Load balancing? Help?
-Greg
