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Changing Guest Lan IP subnet
So I saw this solution for a Orbi RBR850 and I thought someone with a RBR50 was able to do this as well, but I have a RBR40 and a RBR20 and while it takes the commands and keeps them after I reboot, connecting my Laptop to main net work and iPhone to Guest Network simply does not give me the differet pool IP I expected......These were the commands....
- nvram set lan1_ipaddr=192.168.3.1
- nvram set lan1_gateway=192.168.3.1
- nvram set lan_ipaddr2=192.168.3.1
- nvram set dhcp_start2=192.168.3.2
- nvram set dhcp_end2=192.168.3.254
- nvram commit
- reboot the router
- Set the LAN IP address to 192.168.2.1 in the Orbi web GUI under >> ADVANCED >> Setup >> LAN Setup
But on Router, I get this..... no change on the network
| 1 |
| 192.168.1.3 | 2.4G Guest | |||||||
| 2 |
| 192.168.1.2 | 5G |
safejunk wrote:So I saw this solution for a Orbi RBR850 and I thought someone with a RBR50 was able to do this as well, but I have a RBR40 and a RBR20 and while it takes the commands and keeps them after I reboot, connecting my Laptop to main net work and iPhone to Guest Network simply does not give me the differet pool IP I expected..
I seem to remember this was one of the "significant differences" between the WiFi5 Orbi and the new WiFi6 Orbi. What a lot of people thought should be "obvious" (i.e. putting Guest devices into a separate IP subnet) was not part of the original Orbi firmware design.
I think you are destined to be unhappy until (and if) Netgear changes the Orbi firmware.
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safejunk wrote:So I saw this solution for a Orbi RBR850 and I thought someone with a RBR50 was able to do this as well, but I have a RBR40 and a RBR20 and while it takes the commands and keeps them after I reboot, connecting my Laptop to main net work and iPhone to Guest Network simply does not give me the differet pool IP I expected..
I seem to remember this was one of the "significant differences" between the WiFi5 Orbi and the new WiFi6 Orbi. What a lot of people thought should be "obvious" (i.e. putting Guest devices into a separate IP subnet) was not part of the original Orbi firmware design.
I think you are destined to be unhappy until (and if) Netgear changes the Orbi firmware.
Please post about this over in the Orbi AX Forum:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-AX/bd-p/en-home-orbi-ax
Thank you.
safejunk wrote:So I saw this solution for a Orbi RBR850 and I thought someone with a RBR50 was able to do this as well, but I have a RBR40 and a RBR20 and while it takes the commands and keeps them after I reboot, connecting my Laptop to main net work and iPhone to Guest Network simply does not give me the differet pool IP I expected......These were the commands....
- nvram set lan1_ipaddr=192.168.3.1
- nvram set lan1_gateway=192.168.3.1
- nvram set lan_ipaddr2=192.168.3.1
- nvram set dhcp_start2=192.168.3.2
- nvram set dhcp_end2=192.168.3.254
- nvram commit
- reboot the router
- Set the LAN IP address to 192.168.2.1 in the Orbi web GUI under >> ADVANCED >> Setup >> LAN Setup
But on Router, I get this..... no change on the network
1 --- IPHONE-XR 192.168.1.3 192.168.1.3 2.4G Guest 2 Windows PC HPLAPTOP 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.2 5G The question is about doing this to WiFi5 routers, so this is the correct forum.
