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Shared resources between GUEST and main network?
This might have been discussed elsewhere but couldn't find it by a quick search. I have this old CANON MG8220 printer that can only do 2.4Ghz. It is on the network wirelessly. I have an RBRE960 m...
tuna_ertemalp wrote:
(By the way, getting the printer onto the 2.4/5/6GHz 6E instead of the 2.4GHz 6E-IoT via WPS was an adventure, requiring me to turn off every network except for the 6E so the printer & router could agree to use 6E instead of automatically connecting to 6E-IoT, presumably due to it being the 2.4Ghz-only network. D'oh!)
I found a setup manual for the printer, but it says nothing about connecting to WiFi:
https://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/5/0300005415/01/MG8220_GS_U2_V1.pdf
Most devices display a list of WiFi networks and allow the user to choose. The printer should have displayed all three networks (as well as every other WiFi network with a strong enough signal, such as neighbors.) Very puzzling.
tuna_ertemalp wrote:
Is there a current or planned way to be able to share devices between the main & GUEST networks in the admin webpage of the router? Sort of like a "Make this device visible to GUEST network" checkbox?
The 960 user manual does not mention a guest network setting similar to the original Orbi:
In our current state of paranoia, I could imagine a consensus that "Guests" should have no access to the primary network and thus that option being removed. As it was, the option was "all or nothing". i.e. access only the internet, or access everything. No granularity at all.
I cannot remember Netgear "sharing" plans regarding features in advance. Features simply appear (or disappear) with no warning and no explanation.
I remember years back that users complained about there guests having access to the main network when they shouldn't have on the Orbi AC series. Seemed to be bug back then. I presume NG has closed that and thus probably not allowing any kind of access for security reasons.