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VLAN Tagging for Guest Network
I've seen a couple of posts about this in the past on this forum, but all of them appear to be kinda old, and before you could uncheck the "Allow Guests to see each other and access my local network"...
There's roughly zero chance the Orbi will ever support tagging - it's just not that sophisticated (by design), intended as a "fire and forget" consumer device only.
Rodney
FYI: The Orbi (consumer) does actually support VLAN tagging -- in Singapore. The lack of (at least guest) VLAN tagging in the Orbi broadly is a poor decision by Netgear.
I believe (personal opinion) that this is a case where Netgear feels they can justify the decision by saying consumers don't want or can't be bothered with such complexity but, in truth, they probably don't want to erode from their other product lines or burden their consumer support teams. For instance, if the Orbi Pro adds VLAN tagging and full 802.1q support, then why would Netgear want a small office to "get by" with a consumer Orbi? The second point I mention is a valid concern of course but could be mitigated by a simple checkbox "Enabling any of the advanced or beta features of the Orbi and Orbi Pro will limit your product's support as none of the those features are supported by Netgear."
In this case, I think Netgear needs to hear the demand directly or via loss of sales on the affected products. With that said, I'm sure most consumers are happy without anything discussed in this thread... as are most without having a password, leaving their screens unlocked at home, having password postied and spreadsheets, etc. At some point, the industry needs to push consumers to better setups with or without their knowledge (for the benefit of all).
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- Matthew Kurowski