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WAC510 Guest Network
I am installing a WAC-510 access point for my home network. I would like to have a guest network available that will only have access to the internet and not to my other devices. Can anybody please tell me how to set this up. The specs says the AP does support a guest network. Thanks.
- Please configure separate SSID for the guest network and assign separate VLANs for that. You have to configure the switch where WAC510 is connected and make sure to isolate this VLAN from others. By this way you can isolate guest network from your rest of network. Hope it helps Raghu
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WAC510 supports up to 4 SSID on each radio.
you can have
SSID1=Primary SSID for family
SSID2=Secondary SSID for guests
Going one step ahead,
any of the SSID can be changed to Captive portal SSID.
if done, the guest users will get popup splash page before they get internet access.
you can set up mutiple types here based of your usecase.
1) open with splashpage. more common in some business.
2) you can put a WPA-PSK with splashpage.
3) We can use badnwidth conf to set the per client limits on this SSID, so that guest cannot hog the bandwidth.
Thanks for the help. My major concern is that all of my devices are still visible to the guest. Is there any way the guest only sees the internet?
- Please configure separate SSID for the guest network and assign separate VLANs for that. You have to configure the switch where WAC510 is connected and make sure to isolate this VLAN from others. By this way you can isolate guest network from your rest of network. Hope it helps Raghu
Great, your answer is most helpful. Netgear should state in the WAC510 specs, that it must be connected to a programmable switch with multiple VLANs in order to implement guest network with proper isolation. I have a dumb POE switch (GS308P) so will be foregoing the guest network for now. Thanks again for your help.
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