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Can I have a separate SSID for IoT devices?
Hi, I'm running a legacy setup which consists of a 24 port gigabit PoE switch in the attic, slaved to a MIMO router, which has a wired connection to the DSL router. It's got a bit complicated... ...
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To be honest I'm a bit surprised that it's not easy to answer the question myself. For quite some time, all router manufacturers have known that commodity IoT devices often have cheap low-security chipsets that don't always play well with dual band SSIDs, and they must all be aware that cyber security specialists (and the FBI now) have been advising segregation of the network so that those devices have no connectivity to PCs, laptops and network attached storage.
I know I can configure any of my old routers (that have no firewall/antivirus/anti-malware protection) in bridge mode and add a dedicated 2.4ghz SSID for IoT kit. That includes a router that's ten years old. But I'm trying to upgrade my Wi-Fi infrastructure to make it MORE secure overall, as well as more resilient - and if I buy this kit, I'll be getting a router and AP so do I really need a second, less secure AP just for IoT?
Just to expand further - this post from 2017 describes a very realistic scenario... with more people (indeed entire families) working from home on a semi-permanent basis thanks to COVID, and using home automation / smart meters, controls and sensors / voice assistants more than before, this isn't the edge case that it used to be.
- Take my advice with a pinch of salt as it's not specifically in the DumaOS realm what you're asking as it's more to do with Netgear hardware and software capability. I can't really comment on the Extender capabilities as I haven't used it too often. On the router side, you can make a guest WiFi SSID and have the option as to whether you can allow it to access other guests and the network. You could try VLAN but you couldn't apply it to the guest network to have more flexibility.
