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Enabling Guest Network
Has anyone tried the guest network yet? Couple of things I see. 1) When activating, I assume the router/satillite do some sort of reset, as my devices got disconnected during the process. 2) T...
dsc_dewain wrote:Has anyone tried the guest network yet? Couple of things I see.
1) When activating, I assume the router/satillite do some sort of reset, as my devices got disconnected during the process.
thats normal
dsc_dewain wrote:2) There is no seperate Access Control. There is no way to segregate the allow / block access per network. I tried blocking my phone from my network, thinking it could log into the guest network, Nope. What ever you have setup for access controls also appears to apply to Guest Network. I did not play around with new devices can or cannot be added, as I don't have any other devices to play with.
i think this is also normal as access control is done at mac / ip level not by wifi connection
dsc_dewain wrote:3) There is no way to determine that I can see, if a device is on the main network or the guest network.
you cant normally distinguish this on other routers anyway