this is my first question here so please bear with me if I haven't made it super clear
So I have 2 piece of Cisco RV180W router hardware.
The office is moderately big and one single Wifi router is not sufficient to cover them all. So that's why I got two of these routers.
We also have 2 WAN connections so that we don't have a single ISP point of failure. Currently each router is connected to one WAN.
We also have some shared network resources like a Wifi printer, and a NAS.
Current situation is that each router broadcasts their own SSID, so it's like two entirely separate network. Pro: users could pick their own SSID to switch between ISP. Con: They have to switch SSID in order to print or use NAS, because the two thing are associated with one of the router only.
So what I am looking for is:
- Merge the two SSID into one
- Merge the two network into one (so only 1 DHCP server) so that printers/nas can be shared
- Users could by some means still pick their own WAN connection (via VPN? some VLAN magic?)
So far I could only achieve 1+2, but not 3.
The way I do 1+2 is simply put one of the router as AP (simply by disabling DHCP on that router and plug a cable between the LAN ports of the two routers; and then set the same SSID and password)
Is there any pro tips on how I could achieve 3 as well?
Although not strictly required, but I would like to keep the amount of additional hardware/server at minimal - best if it can be done just with that two router or maybe the NAS (since it came with also VPN server and DHCP server that I could enable)
I have only little knowledge in VLAN so any newbie-friendly, overly-detailed explanation are more than welcome.