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FYI Netgear: Guest Network not always truly disabled.
This is a random discovery about my R7000. I don't know who else might have this quirk. I don't think its a huge deal but still perhaps something Netgear would like to know about. I use this in s...
To see whether if it will really show the SSID that has been disabled.
If you have selected OFF then it should be OFF and should not be broadcasted. If you're saying otherwise, then that unit has a problem.
I brought my bug to netgears attention because the problem had not been corrected by any basic troubleshooting such as a hardware reset. Since the hardware reset had no effect on this issue before the update I am dubious to its effectiveness following the update. I will try to recreate the error following this most recent change and see what happens. If the problem remains I will then try the hardware reset.
It's not a big problem. Just an oddity I thought Netgear might want to know about. You never know what the underlying implications might be. This could just be a symptom of something worse.
The rest goes with out saying. I run 30+ character randomly selected unique passwords on everything except my guest access which is disabled most of the time.
I don't experience this with my R7000. Did you try using a wifi scanner?
What new information would a WiFi scanner provide?
l'll restate the problem just for clarity. Sometimes when I turn the guest WiFI off it remains on. The admin page will say it is off but I can still find it, connect to it, and succesfully navigate to new web pages from a multitude of devices. Rebooting resolves this but the whole point was to not reboot while other users were still attached. The work around is to simply rename the guest connection as well as disabling it. Then it will truly disable with out the need for a reboot.
I will note that my R7000 at home never did this either. However, even when streaming HD to several users, my home network is never worked as hard as the one at work.
In the end it really does not matter. It was just a tiny detail I found.
To see whether if it will really show the SSID that has been disabled.
If you have selected OFF then it should be OFF and should not be broadcasted. If you're saying otherwise, then that unit has a problem.