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KaneB
Oct 31, 2018Aspirant
Creating a secure Guest network with Orbi
I have a guest network setup in my orbi and as I understand, it seems to be able to see other devices in the network and a guest device can also potentially take all the bandwidth since I cannot thro...
- Nov 01, 2018For the benefit of others, I can confirm this works as a setup.
I bought a cheap GL inet travel router from Amazon which is about £16. It is fully featured and has the ability to limit bandwidth using its QOS features.
FURRYe38
Oct 31, 2018Guru - Experienced User
If the 2ndary router has the ability to control bandwidth there, then yes you could install another router for Guest only. You'd still be competing with bandwidth at the Orbi router and ISP services however. So the 2ndary router would need to have some options to help limit bandwidth at this point.
- KaneBOct 31, 2018Aspirant
Thank you for your response.
Does Netgear have a router with bandwidth control on a hardware level? So instead of controlling it on a software level which they could potentially bypass. The actual hardware is only limited to a total of say 35mbps traffic?
- FURRYe38Oct 31, 2018Guru - Experienced User
Not that I know of.