The current gateway router is an awesome all-in-one powerhouse: the Mikrotik hAP ax3. Whatever I get for the garage (between ISP and MoCA) would be inferior while the ax3 would be demoted to a dumb AP, and that would be really annoying. But it's the most straightforward setup...

A managed switch is cheaper and might be a smarter setup...

Well, in either case, there's going to be #VLAN on the #MoCA network, cause even with the router I will need to get multiple networks to my server.

The question is, will the MoCA endpoints be usable as access ports, or will all devices have to be VLAN aware?

If an ordinary device receives both untagged and tagged frames, what does it do with the tagged frames?

What if I do without the switch though...

From what I can tell, the #MoCA network functions as a switch. And assuming the FTTdp thing just bridges it all through, I'm basically connected to ISP router through a switch. So broadcasts and whatever junk will be sent to the ISP, which will probably drop the #VLAN junk, but the vast majority of the packets won't be sent there. So it'll work...

@lamp depends on what location you've selected.

You can thank @EU_Commission and #ETSI for their bs. decision to effectively ban #aftermarket #Firmware under the false claim of "spectrum protection" (or rather enfircement)...

For example since @BNetzA allows WiFi between 2,4-2,5 GHz and not caps it at 2485MHz, you actually get 2 more channels in Germany.

Amd in Japan you get 802.11j with an entire extra band in the 5GHz region that is reserved for rain Radar in #Europe (aka. closer to DFS).