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Aspirant

Nov 20, 2020

Solved

How does the Guest Network work?

Hey all, I am pretty new to this. I am apart of an MSP and one of our clients uses a Netgear Nighthawk r7000 in a small office of 6-12 people. We have disabled the Guest Network on the router bu...

Portwey84
Nov 23, 2020
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/What-is-the-guest-network-for/td-p/497301

https://kb.netgear.com/24097/How-do-I-set-up-a-guest-network-on-my-Nighthawk-router

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/guest-wifi/23843/

Portwey84

Virtuoso

Nov 23, 2020

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/What-is-the-guest-network-for/td-p/497301

https://kb.netgear.com/24097/How-do-I-set-up-a-guest-network-on-my-Nighthawk-router

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/guest-wifi/23843/

theHalfwayGeek
Aspirant
Dec 01, 2020
I have reviewed the settings on the guest network and indeed saw an option specifically to allow traffic to/through the internal network. I verified that I could not get to the internal network on the guest Wifi. I found this info in the link: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/guest-wifi/23843/

The issue I believe was when connected through the ethernet as well as the guest Wifi it would recognize the internal network and allow traffic to pass. Originally we could connect to the internal network only using the guest Wifi. I do not know if the option to allow traffic on the internal network was originally clicked on or not.

Thank you