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WAX220 Guest Network - Unsecured
Do not buy this Access Point and expect a secure Guest Network. The original firmware had an option for L2 Isolation, but updating removes this option and reverting does not restore it. The Guest N...
schumaku wrote:
Retired_Member wrote:Who knows what else is not working as intended...
Whatever impression you want to bring up with such shabby comments and poorly formulated subject lines. just poor sportsmanship or bad intentions?
Unexperienced users (some >99% of the readers in such a user community) tend to understand "WAX220 Guest Network - Unsecured" very different. Wouldn't "WAX220 Can't enable Client Isolation to Block LAN Subnet Access" describe the effective information much better? Just my 2 Cents.
Reminder: We talk about essential wireless AP products WAX214v2 (street price less than 88 USD ex VAT!) for a WiFi 6 AX1800 Dual-band PoE Wireless Access Point, and WAX220 (street price less than 129 USD ex VAT) for an AX4200 Dual Band AP with a 2.5 GbE network connection.
You really love those partial sentences, don't you? I didn't know this was a competition, Mr. Good-sport.
Unexperienced users absolutely need to be made aware of a product that has flaws. Quit defending a company you say you claim to not be affiliated with. You're playing a semantics game because you have a must-be-correct complex at this point.
You still haven't tested the WAX220 as thoroughly as I have, and you just glazed over some basic stuff, like an NPC help desk rep.
Here's a real reminder: I just picked up a different brand, and return all the Netgear products I bought. The competitor was even priced almost identically for each product (switch and access point), and they offer A LOT more control, along with functionality that isn't broken.
The solution? Buy something else, don't waste your cash till Netgear decides that firmware is important, again.
Done with this thread, the replies coming in are from sources out of their depth.
Bonus round:
Why does the WAX220 also set up the DHCP Snooping alarms on a switch when trying to connect a device to a NON-Guest SSID, but the WAX214 does not?
Perhaps this AP's firmware was poorly put together?
Retired_Member wrote:
Why does the WAX220 also set up the DHCP Snooping alarms on a switch when trying to connect a device to a NON-Guest SSID, but the WAX214 does not?
The WAX220 has no idea what your switch DHCP Snooping is or does, regardless if it's a non-guest SSID (so the DHCP handshake from the wireless client is hand-over) or an Guest-SSID which does represent a designated private IP subnet dedicated to the AP.
Much more informative (for the future readers) would be what your unknown switch does report or complain on the DHCP snooping processing.
Have an eye in the DHCP RFCs for example. These AP, or in general any AP don't do anything like you describe.
Retired_Member wrote:
Perhaps this AP's firmware was poorly put together?
May i ask to adjust your transmitter frequency or the modulation a little bit, please? The reception is poor.
schumaku wrote:
Retired_Member wrote:Why does the WAX220 also set up the DHCP Snooping alarms on a switch when trying to connect a device to a NON-Guest SSID, but the WAX214 does not?
The WAX220 has no idea what your switch DHCP Snooping is or does, regardless if it's a non-guest SSID (so the DHCP handshake from the wireless client is hand-over) or an Guest-SSID which does represent a designated private IP subnet dedicated to the AP.
Much more informative (for the future readers) would be what your unknown switch does report or complain on the DHCP snooping processing.
Have an eye in the DHCP RFCs for example. These AP, or in general any AP don't do anything like you describe.
I mean to say set OFF the DHCP Snooping on my switch, causing it to block clients from accessing the internet.. I tried the exact same configuration with the WAX214v1, and I did not have to disable DHCP Snooping to get the AP to work like the WAX220 needs.
As for the switch I used, it is a GS308T.
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