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KaneB
Aspirant
Oct 31, 2018
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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...
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  • KaneB's avatar
    KaneB
    Nov 01, 2018
    For 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.
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KaneB
Aspirant
Oct 31, 2018

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?

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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 31, 2018

Not that I know of.