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Is there a way to get the VPN to connect with the primary (not guest) network?
I find the built-in VPN to be very useful for personal network security when on shared/public networks -- and when traveling internationally (I appear to be home, which is what I want). However, I'd...
You are the first person to report that Orbi's guest network is on a separate subnet from the main network. See post #1 and many other posts in the below thread.
I switched my Orbi to router mode just to test, and confirmed that for my Orbi the guest network is on the same subnet as the main network. In my case the Orbi is at 192.168.1.1 and the guest gets an IP of 192.168.1.5, which is on the same subnet. This is what I mean by "Orbi does not have a separate guest network." Yes, there is a separate SSID, but all clients are on the same subnet.
Furthermore, there is no setting in Orbi that I see that allows one to choose a different subnet for the guest network.
So, either you are using a different router than Orbi, you are using some new unreleased firmware, or there is something misconfigured with your network.
Where is the Orbi setup page where you can set a different IP for the guest network?
What firmware version are you running?
st_shaw I accidentally hit the “solved” button here, don’t know how to de-select it. This is not solved.
Milne is a standard-issue RBK50 set (one RBR50 base, one RBS50 satellite) running the standard firmeware that was released a couple of weeks ago.
One doesnt’t manually set the guest subnet. In the case where the the option to “Allow guests to see each other and access my local network” is de-selected (see p78 of the manual), the Orbi automatically creates the guest network on a different subnet, apparently incrementing the base subnet IP address by one (e.g., if the primary subnet is 192.168.200.0/24, the guest subnet will be 192.168.201.0/24). That’s what I’m seeing. In effect, when I VPN in, my remote device gets the address (in this example) of 192.168.200.5 with a 24-bit subnet.
I’m not making this up.