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Apr 12, 2020

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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, ...

CrimpOn
Apr 12, 2020
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.

FURRYe38

Guru - Experienced User

Apr 12, 2020

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
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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

CrimpOn

Guru - Experienced User

Apr 12, 2020

The question is about doing this to WiFi5 routers, so this is the correct forum.