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VLAN Tagging Prohibits LAN Communication & SmartConnect Issues
Resurrecting a problem that this post had -- https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Pro-Gaming-Routers/XR500-VLAN-tagging-making-wifi-devices-unable-to-communicate/td-p/1842061/page/3 Just bo...
Yes -- SmartConnect is disabled, and I'm currently using two separate SSIDs.
Beamforming, MU-MIMO & HT160 are now all disabled. Is this to fix SmartConnect or the LAN Communication?
For the devices issue, could you make a Guest WiFi network and allow the option to communicate locally, connect them both to that and see if it works then please? For Smart Connect it will only switch to 5GHz if the device needs the extra bandwidth.
Is Guest-Wifi the only option? That seems counter-intuitive, as Guest-WiFi should be more locked down and restrictive.
- It's the only place where there is a specific option to allow communication on the internal network, it may not work but it's worth a try.
So here's some more testing --
Normal 5ghz Network: Ping to ethernet host succeeds, ssh fails.
Guest Network: Ping and SSH both fail.