I have a fairly small network with scanners, printers, phones and workstations/servers all sharing the same subnet (10.0.0.0). I am having issues with our VoIP phones and sluggish response on the network when scanning large files.
I would like to separate my VoIP traffic from all other network traffic. Would I be better served to create a VLAN or just simply program the VoIP router and phones to a different subnet?
The VLAN option seems more complicated and would require a different subnet anyway (at least that's my understanding of the VLAN) so would it not be easier to just create a new subnet (10.0.3.0) program my phone router to that subnet and assign static IP's to my phones (in the 10.0.3.0 subnet) using the router as the gateway?
I would like to separate my VoIP traffic from all other network traffic
- That's a poor way to troubleshoot the problem. Assuming that's the cause of the problem and then undertaking a network redesign based on that assumption isn't the best way to go about resolving the problem. At any rate, Physically segregating the traffic would necessitate creating VLAN's.