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NightHawk AXE11000 Guest Network is wide open to my stuff
So the old router died and I got an AXE11000 delivered today. We have a bed and breakfast and wanted a Guest Network. You would think that would be easy to set up and keep the guests out of my servers and storage boxes I use for 3 other businesses. Well, all it seems to do is block the network discovery in windows. I can connect to the guest network with no other connections and it remembers and connects to my mapped drives for my other business. I can use an IP scanner and see all the connected devices on the 192.168.1.xxx domain, even though the wireless is handing out IP addresses on the 15.15.15.xxx domain. How do I keep guests and others out of my business and give them just internet access?
I have an AT&T wireless router that connects to the internet and a 24 port switch which connects to all the other devices. I plugged this new NightHawk AXE11000 directly into the AT&T port. I just don't see how to lock this new Guest network down. There are not any options in the menu to do much. All I want guests on the wireless to see and access is the internet, that includes guests that like to hack. I've tried assigning the AXE11000 different IP addresses and subnet masks, but nothing seems to work. After 3 hours I'm fed up with it.
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Do you have the ATT router still running as a router and with wifi enabled here?
Brand and model# of the ATT router please.
If you setup the RAXE500 router behind the ATT router, there could still be a chance to access some resources on the ATT router.
Does the ATT router have a guest network there?
Have you set up the Guest Network on the RAXE router?
How do you have that configured?
Do you have the ATT router still running as a router and with wifi enabled here? YES
Brand and model# of the ATT router please. BGW210-700 8/5/2018
If you setup the RAXE500 router behind the ATT router, there could still be a chance to access some resources on the ATT router.
Does the ATT router have a guest network there? NO, ELSE I WOULD USE IT
Have you set up the Guest Network on the RAXE router? YES
How do you have that configured? 2G ON WITH DIFFERENT NAME AND PW, OTHERS OFF
You may need to move all networking recources OFF the ATT router to the RAXE router so that those resources can be blocked by Guests when connected to the RAXE router. Otherwise, Guest Network is not being blocked fully for LAN side resources when traffic from the RAXE router come into the ATT router. There is no separation here with two routers online though would be different subnets.
