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How to set separate IP address ranges for IOT and Guest networks ORBI 770
How do you set IP address ranges for Orbi 770 IOT and Guest networks? I need my IOT network on a specific range. I can't find where to set it anywhere.
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Does everything use the same range and it internally keeps specific IPs (IOT/Guest networks) for getting crossing boundies to places they are not supposed to be or get at?
Thanks!
Due to the nature of the design of IoT and there software applications, the IoT network is on the same WLAN network so that the IoT software apps that are installed in phones and pads that are on the main WLAN can communicate with the IoT devices themselves. This is now Orbi systems with IoT network is intended. Was intended to help get IoT devices connected to the system as historically, IoT devices and there software had problems getting connected to MESH systems that had Smart Connect in the wifi.
The only one that is separate and isolated is the Guest Network.
drouindave wrote:
So what keeps IOT and guest devices from getting to the main network devices? Other wise what is the point of having Guest and IOT networks? What am i missing? Thanks.
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Something that can't be done on Orbi systems.
So what keeps IOT and guest devices from getting to the main network devices? Other wise what is the point of having Guest and IOT networks? What am i missing? Thanks.
Due to the nature of the design of IoT and there software applications, the IoT network is on the same WLAN network so that the IoT software apps that are installed in phones and pads that are on the main WLAN can communicate with the IoT devices themselves. This is now Orbi systems with IoT network is intended. Was intended to help get IoT devices connected to the system as historically, IoT devices and there software had problems getting connected to MESH systems that had Smart Connect in the wifi.
The only one that is separate and isolated is the Guest Network.
drouindave wrote:
So what keeps IOT and guest devices from getting to the main network devices? Other wise what is the point of having Guest and IOT networks? What am i missing? Thanks.
drouindave wrote:
I need my IOT network on a specific range
I, also, want devices to have network addresses that fit a scheme. I use the LAN Setup page in the web interface to assign specific IP addresses to those devices by entering their hardware MAC address. See page 80 of the User Manual:
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RBE773/RBE771_RBE770_UM.pdf
Since IoT devices are probably on the network all the time, having assigned network addresses seems reasonable.
Not having one of the WiFi7 systems, I am not certain how it assigns IP addresses to Guest devices. The AX series of products placed Guest devices in an entirely different IP subnet than the primary WiFi, IoT WiFi, and hardwired devices. There is no point in assigning network addresses to them because they are transient (i.e. "Guests")
