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Rbr50... add 2nd Guest account for tech
Can I add a second guest ssid? I'd like to get smart devices off primary network onto their own limited account.
I likewise miss this feature that my ASUS router had. It was very handy to setup different SSIDs for 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands as well, thus you easily could configure a "WIFI" SSID for both frequencies, "WIFI_2.4G" for 2.4GHz and "WIFI_5G" for 5GHz if desired. Then IoT and other devices could be configured to only bind to a desired frequency if the user wants to configure it that way. "Advanced" features of the router should allow configurations like this that the tech-savvy user would want.
There's a way to separate guest SSIDs for 2.4Ghz/5GHz for the guest account. I currently use that trick to steer my IoT devices to the correct bands by manipulating guest SSIDs. Hopefully, NG doesn't kill this ability in the next FW update like they've done with the main SSID.