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R7800 - allow guest on home network
I have a R6700 set up in my garage and connected to the cable modem. I have the wifi turned off. In my living room I have a R7800 set up as an AP. It is connected to the garage router by ethernet....
> I have a R6700 set up in my garage [...]
> [...] I have the wifi turned off. [...]
Why is the R6700 is the garage? Is anything connected to its LAN
Ethernet ports other than the R7800?> [...] the cable modem. [...]
Not a very detailed description of that device.
> [...] In my living room I have a R7800 set up as an AP. [...]
That's why its "guest network" stuff is disabled.
> [...] I would like to have the guest network for visitors to use wifi
> but I do not want them on my home network. [...]
Strictly speaking, "guest" clients are not on a separate network, but
there are firewall-like rules (enabled by default) which can limit their
ability to communicate with non-guest client devices. (Those
firewall-like rules are implemented in the router section of the device,
which is why that functionality is lost when the router is configured as
a wireless access point.)Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation. Get the User Manual. Read. Look for check-boxes
like "Allow guests to see each other and access my local network" (in
the "Set Up a Guest WiFi Network" section).The real mystery is what the R6700 is doing for you (other than
causing trouble). Running another cable from the garage to the R7800,
and using the R7800 as the main/only router might simplify many things.
You could run coax in, and put the modem near the R7800-as-router, or
you could run Ethernet from the modem to the R7800-as-router. If there
are client devices in the garage, then you could run Ethernet from the
R7800-as-router (LAN port) back to the garage. For multiple devices in
the garage, put an Ethernet switch out there, or the R6700-as-WAP (with
its wireless-network radio(s) disabled?).As usual, many things are possible.
> I have a R6700 set up in my garage [...]
> [...] I have the wifi turned off. [...]
Why is the R6700 is the garage? Is anything connected to its LAN
Ethernet ports other than the R7800?
> [...] the cable modem. [...]
Not a very detailed description of that device.
> [...] In my living room I have a R7800 set up as an AP. [...]
That's why its "guest network" stuff is disabled.
> [...] I would like to have the guest network for visitors to use wifi
> but I do not want them on my home network. [...]
Strictly speaking, "guest" clients are not on a separate network, but
there are firewall-like rules (enabled by default) which can limit their
ability to communicate with non-guest client devices. (Those
firewall-like rules are implemented in the router section of the device,
which is why that functionality is lost when the router is configured as
a wireless access point.)
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation. Get the User Manual. Read. Look for check-boxes
like "Allow guests to see each other and access my local network" (in
the "Set Up a Guest WiFi Network" section).
The real mystery is what the R6700 is doing for you (other than
causing trouble). Running another cable from the garage to the R7800,
and using the R7800 as the main/only router might simplify many things.
You could run coax in, and put the modem near the R7800-as-router, or
you could run Ethernet from the modem to the R7800-as-router. If there
are client devices in the garage, then you could run Ethernet from the
R7800-as-router (LAN port) back to the garage. For multiple devices in
the garage, put an Ethernet switch out there, or the R6700-as-WAP (with
its wireless-network radio(s) disabled?).
As usual, many things are possible.
antinode
Sorry, but I saw no need to explain why the R6700 is in my garage beyond that the wifi was off and that it was point of enty from ISP's modem and the R7800 was connected to it via ethernet.
However, to satisfy your curiousity I will explain. First, I recently moved to a much smaller house. My last one was a 2 story with garage. I made an office in the garage and built a rack for the servers. I used 24 port network switch and wired ethernet to every room in the house. I now live in a 2 bedroom ranch style with attached garage. I have my desktop in my bedroom because there is no other space to place it. All of the rooms are too small. I had to put the servers in the garage and besides, that was the input point from the isp. I use a ISP provided modem and that is about all I know about it other than it has no wifi. I brought the network switch with me and it is connected to the router in the garage and has 3 (and sometimes 4) servers connected to it. Also, 3 lines that run to the bedroom and one to the living room. I have 3 ethernet ports in my bedroom for my computer and assesories (google home is wired in also). The extra port is just that, extra, just in case it is ever needed. Using the garage router as the wifi point I had spotty connections in the kitchen and poor reception in the living room. I ran one ethernet cable to the living room and set up the R7800 router as an access point. I have ethernet to my Phillip's Hue hub, one camera, and my harmony hub and one to my Raspberry Pi Plex Media Player. I do not know why you stated that the R6700 is causing trouble for me. It runs smoothly and serves a purpose in the garage. Doing away with it and only using the one in the living room would be more trouble trying to run enough wire to the garage to the servers there and the bedroom ports would have to be rewired. My entire lan would have to be reworked as I use static addresses for the 14 or so light switches, 4 Google homes, Hue hub, Harmony hub, 3 cameras and probably some other things that I can't think of right now. Your suggestion of using the R7800 as the main router would also nessitate me to put a switch in the living room also because I could not do as you suggested off of 4 ports.
I did look on the Netgear site but did not find the link you provided. I guess I searched for the wrong thing. The link did answer my question quite well and I would have been happy to have gotten just that and not all of the wordage that you used to berate my setup. I do thank you though for that link.