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Anyone have sucess setting up Chromecast on ORBI in guest mode
ORBI system in router mode. Has anyone gotten a chromecast to work on the guest network without selecting "Allow guests to see each other and access my local network"? The system is set up in...
You can't have your cake and eat it, too.
Chromecast is by definition peer-to-peer...if the peers can't talk, nothing useful is going to happen.
Rodney
Thanks for the response.
Is there any news on progress toward splitting up the settings for:
Allow guests to see each other
and
access my local network.
I really don't understand how selecting that setting is any different than not having a guest network at all.
alg42 wrote:Thanks for the response.
Is there any news on progress toward splitting up the settings for:
Allow guests to see each other
and
access my local network.
I really don't understand how selecting that setting is any different than not having a guest network at all.
You're right, it is confusing that the 2 options are combined as one. The difference between checking this option and not having a guest network at all is that you don't give out your primary wifi password to your guests so you are free to change the guest wifi password between guest visits without having to also reconfigure all your home devices.
Virtually all isolation solutions I've seen of this nature combine them, rightly or wrongly. The assumption is that Orbi is a consumer-targeted device, and something like a Chromecast would never be used by a "guest", as it requires obvious interaction with other devices as well...the same reason a Chromecast would never work on a hotel TV, for instance. If you're using it at a business, there may be solutions other than Orbi that would be more optimal for your use case...don't have enough information to speak to that, but I'd consider it very unlikely the two will ever be split.
Rodney
