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Netgear-Guest Open and Disabling Firmware Updates
As many have reported I often see a Netgear-Guest Open WiFi Network even when Guest Networks are disabled. I trraced the issue to one of my 3 satelittes - an RBS50Y. Netgear lists two firmwar...
Vandergraff wrote:As many have reported I often see a Netgear-Guest Open WiFi Network even when Guest Networks are disabled.
Is "Netgear-Guest" the actual name of the Orbi guest network that is disabled? (I created a diffferent guest SSID on my Orbi.)
I remember Vandergraff "open" guest network posts very well.
Suspect much more a sync or update problem from the primary router where the config happens to the various satellite models supported somehow.
This still happens on "modern" WiFi 6 Orbis, sometimes in wireless backhaul, sometimes in wired backhaul configuration.
schumaku wrote:I remember Vandergraff "open" guest network posts very well.
Suspect much more a sync or update problem from the primary router where the config happens to the various satellite models supported somehow.
This still happens on "modern" WiFi 6 Orbis, sometimes in wireless backhaul, sometimes in wired backhaul configuration.
The thing is it is quite repeatable.
When the RBS50Y runs 2.6.2.104 the Netgear-Guest Open WiFi Network is there when the RBS50Y runs 2.3.5.32 its gone.
Thanks
Vandergraff wrote:
The thing is it is quite repeatable.When the RBS50Y runs 2.6.2.104 the Netgear-Guest Open WiFi Network is there when the RBS50Y runs 2.3.5.32 its gone.
Can you humor me with an experiment? Enable guest WiFi and report whether there are now two guest WiFi networks, or only one?
Since the main problem is a desire to not have an "open" WiFi system, I would be tempted to enable a Guest network with a totally impossible to crack password, such as "BetYouWillNeverGuessMoreThan4OrLessThan250OfThesePasswordLetters!"
That only works, of course, if enabling your own "guest" WiFi network makes Netgear-Guest disappear.
Also still amazed that the RBS50Y updates firmware without any action on the user's part.
CrimpOn wrote:
Vandergraff wrote:As many have reported I often see a Netgear-Guest Open WiFi Network even when Guest Networks are disabled.
Is "Netgear-Guest" the actual name of the Orbi guest network that is disabled? (I created a diffferent guest SSID on my Orbi.)
No its not the name of the disabled Guest Network (I also used a different guest SSID). I never set up a Guest Network with the name "Netgear-Guest"
Thanks
