D6200 Guest WiFi speed & channel

[DarrenHill]

Hi,

Quick question - on a D6200 is there any way to set the speed and channel of one of the guest wifi networks indepdendently of that of the main hosted wifi network? Under the guest wifi set-up page both items appear, but are greyed out and contain the same data as the main wifi channel.

It would be nice to be able to set the channel independently (so as not to cause any interference between the two) and also the speed (I had planned on using a guest wifi set-up specifically for slower 802.11b/g items on my network, and keep the main one for 802.11n items so as to maximise throughput).

Also it would be nice to be able to apply the MAC address filtering independently to the different networks, for example so the main wifi has the MAC filtering enabled, but the guest one being unfiltered (with just password controlled access). Possibly a suggestion for a future firmware update (does this place have a suggestion-box area)?

[jmizoguchi]

Answer is NO... Guest and Primary are simply separated by the VLAN to isolate but still uses same channel

[DarrenHill]

jmizoguchi wrote:
Answer is NO... Guest and Primary are simply separated by the VLAN to isolate but still uses same channel

Thanks - makes sense if they are basically the same network just split/isolated at source.

Would still be nice to be able to set the MAC filtering per network rather than as a whole though - that should still be possible within the software. Especially as the option for the guest networking is built-in.

[jmizoguchi]

You can certainly give an idea to support directly at my.netgear.com

Mac filter in itself is easily hackable to be spoof so may offer some "control" and not "security at all" but you can suggest that.

Better way is guest section should have portal password instead of mac filter or encryption to make the wifi guest device more easily compatible without hassle.

🙂

[DarrenHill]

jmizoguchi wrote:
You can certainly give an idea to support directly at my.netgear.com Mac filter in itself is easily hackable to be spoof so may offer some "control" and not "security at all" but you can suggest that. Better way is guest section should have portal password instead of mac filter or encryption to make the wifi guest device more easily compatible without hassle. 🙂

Yes, I was meaning in addition to a strong WPA2 password, certainly not in place of it. I know they are spoofable, but also you need to know what address to spoof, which certainly helps against more casual drive-by invaders.

I'll head over to my.netgear.com and see about things.

[jmizoguchi]

I know they are spoofable, but also you need to know what address to spoof, which certainly helps against more casual drive-by invaders.

They are tools out there to scan out so it is matter of time.. 🙂

Usually the encryption for guest isn't good idea as well because not all device will communicate correctly. For that reason most place has open security but uses portal. I use Open-mesh products deploy 4 AP and have portal to have my guest access instead of any encryption.

I don't think wouldn't be that difficult to add portal page with password instead of using encryption as well