Peplink Router Selection for a Home LAN and IoT Devices

[mldowling]

Hello @Audiophile,
In addition to @SamuelNorris comments we have some additional thoughts for you.

Peplink/Pepwave equipment can be managed at both the local device level and just as well via Pelink’s InControl2 cloud platform. There are mixed views here in the forum on using cloud management so at the end of the day you can make your own informed decision based on what you find here. For our business and customer support the InControl2 platform alongside the Peplink/Pepwave range has hugely simplified our support and improved the support we can offer to clients so we lean towards InConrol2 with every system we deploy/supply.

To help you with your research have a look at this guide in the forum on how to setup InControl2

InControl 2 Initial Setup Guide

Credit for this article goes to @mldowling of Rising Connection, Australia Peplink have hidden several of the menus until you add in equipment that is capable of the menu’s features. Pre-configuring of these can help tremendously with doing large project roll outs. The Hiding of the menus has been done to help simplify the on boarding process for new people and their devices. For those that need to do more advanced pre-deployment work, all of the features are available, though you need to d…

You can also do a search in the forum for “InControl2 Setup Guide”.

In terms of the security side of InControl2, if you setup InControl2 with enforce 2FA (2nd Factor Authentication), use InControl2 to randomise all admin device passwords and switch off the WAN management of the devices, then your systems will be very secure and easy for you to monitor remotely should you desire.

You are most welcome to share a network topology of your planed network here, if you are using IoT devices in your network you way wish to consider using VLANs, setting up VLANs with InControl2 using the guides here in the forum will get you well beyond the basic of VLANs without needing a networking degree.

Finally I recommend reaching out to your local Authorised Peplink Partner for specialised assistance.

Your local Certified Peplink Partner can help you with all sort of good quality information and support, as a bonus you will find they have a diverse background so will have differing ideas that my also help you along the way. For myself I am part of the team of Peplink Partners looking after Australia & New Zealand, we all know each other and with Peplink’s support work to support the region, your local Peplink Partners will be doing the same in your region.

Like you have already discovered, the Peplink Forum is here also for questions for when you have them.
Happy to Help,
Marcus