VLANs and why you use them.

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[QuikTechSolutions]

Another great short form vid my friend. Love the new thumbnail design!

[JasonsLabVideos]

Good video, In this day & age, WE 100% NEED a vlan, with all these IOT devices & guest networks 100% we need these ! :)

[garymccloskey]

any chance to get a video for setting up a vlan for iscsi for a es-16-xg?

[kjriess]

Thanks for getting this series started. Looking forward to the next video!

[PEDoers]

Willie, great video - Thanks You Sir 😉

[concerned_]

I am just watching this now. I have a facility with 25 or so security cameras, three access points and a business office. I am having latency issues with some of the cameras especially with two-way voice. I look forward to learning how I can solve this issue while maintaining access to all vlans.. VOIP too.

[terryjohnson]

The network I inherited was a /21 - ugh!

[tokoiaoben]

Great video. I running pfsense in my network and have vlans and there is also voice vlan. Can you show how to prioritise voice with pfsense. I've been using other tutorials I've found but have no idea if it works or not.

[daveize]

Good video, thanks Willie. Would you move printers to their own vlan?

[byrd]

their is a issue with the usig phones over vlans I have ran into an issue where if I'm copying a large file even on a VLAN the audio quality drops badly because I'm maxing out the port's connection so to solve this we started using the second jack on our wall plates the phones jack can not handle the load I got static poping dropping audio and QoS was set correctly this was on a cisco phone system as well as a shoretel system willy can you explain what do here as a it guy when doing large file transfers to a work station as a it guy where I'm on the phone and doing a large file copy to setup work stations for first time and updates as well audio just goes to crap

[kristopherleslie]

I guess we should define what is large medium or small so it’s not vague and ambiguous?

[scotthannan]

How many people are actually using IP V6 regularly? Supposedly we were going to run out of IPv4 a long time ago … and I realize that a lot of the big network providers use IPv6 internally but I don’t think IPV4 is going away anytime soon

[stevenmishos]

I was helping somebody with their routing issues and they had three /16 subnets (which made it easy for them to accidentally overlap).
Me: "why /16?"
Them: "I have lots of space in 10."
*sigh*