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WAX206 in AP mode with 2 SSIDs
Hope this isn't blatantly obvious: I wanted to use the WAX206 as access points with a Draytek router and wanted to set up 2 different SSIDs, one for myself and one for guests with no access to my de...
When I have it right, these basic AP offer three SSIDs, however there is no way for having the SSIDs mapping to dedicate subnet resp. a VLAN on thee models (like the WAX202 or WAX206). This feature became available on the later WX214/218.
Hmmm. If that's correct then my first thought would be - what's the point in having 3 SSIDs if they're essentially all doing the exact same thing. I don't care if 2 guests can see each others phone, what I'm after is that they can't see my NAS, let alone access it. However, if I connect my laptop to - shall we call it - the master wifi then obviously I DO want to see and access it.
The manual is a bit on the disappointing side as all the interesting aspects only apply to "Router Mode". I have a router, vastly superior to these puppies, and if I needed a private network at one end I'd stick another router on it, got a couple of spares. That is certainly not what I bought these for.
Sure, I can give all my devices a fixed IP and spend a few hours whitelisting them in the firewall but frankly that's not what I had in mind when I spend 70 quid a pop (of which 55 is probably for the router features I turned off). Surely there's more than router mode or FA.
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