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CAUTION: Orbi's Wifi Guest Network does not really isolate guests from main network
I was just playing around around with the Guest Network in Orbi and made a rather disturbing discovery that guest clients don't seem to be separated totally from the main network, in fact can access ...
Darren, thank you for being a champion for us in regards to feedback to Netgear engineers, however I found a thread with the same issue / complaint and you raised it to engineers back in December of 2016. Have there been any updates or communication with you since that time regarding this issue? At this point, we all know that Netgear either doesn't have a fix, plan on fixing, or doesn't take this community seriously.
Thanks again
I think at this point all we are getting is lip service with no action if this was raised a year and a half ago and still nothing has been done about it.
I too need to see this feature "finished" and really working. No reason to even have a GUEST mode if it does not isolate that device from accessing the rest of the network resources.
NETGEAR this needs to be addressed. It is not a PRO feature. It is needed by everyone!!!
I recently enable a gGest Network which I assumed would isolate Guests from my Network (box unchecked for "Allow guests to see each other and my local network")
Just to check I connected to my Guest Network and ran Net Analyser on my iPhone - and was very surprised to that I could see all the devices on my main network......
I then saw this thread - so I see it is a known issue.
Any updates when it may get fixed?
I think I will do as others and run a guest network on 2.4 GHz on an Asus RT-AC68 running Merlin software and use the Orbi as an access point with no guest network.