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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.