Changing Guest Lan IP subnet

[safejunk]

So I saw this solution for a Orbi RBR850 and I thought someone with a RBR50 was able to do this as well, but I have a RBR40 and a RBR20 and while it takes the commands and keeps them after I reboot, connecting my Laptop to main net work and iPhone to Guest Network simply does not give me the differet pool IP I expected......These were the commands....

• nvram set lan1_ipaddr=192.168.3.1
• nvram set lan1_gateway=192.168.3.1
• nvram set lan_ipaddr2=192.168.3.1
• nvram set dhcp_start2=192.168.3.2
• nvram set dhcp_end2=192.168.3.254
• nvram commit
• reboot the router
• Set the LAN IP address to 192.168.2.1 in the Orbi web GUI under >> ADVANCED >> Setup >> LAN Setup

But on Router, I get this..... no change on the network

1		--- IPHONE-XR 192.168.1.3	192.168.1.3			2.4G Guest
2		Windows PC HPLAPTOP 192.168.1.2	192.168.1.2			5G

[CrimpOn · Accepted solution]

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@safejunk wrote:

So I saw this solution for a Orbi RBR850 and I thought someone with a RBR50 was able to do this as well, but I have a RBR40 and a RBR20 and while it takes the commands and keeps them after I reboot, connecting my Laptop to main net work and iPhone to Guest Network simply does not give me the differet pool IP I expected..

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I seem to remember this was one of the "significant differences" between the WiFi5 Orbi and the new WiFi6 Orbi.  What a lot of people thought should be "obvious" (i.e. putting Guest devices into a separate IP subnet) was not part of the original Orbi firmware design.

I think you are destined to be unhappy until (and if) Netgear changes the Orbi firmware.

[CrimpOn · Accepted solution]

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@safejunk wrote:

So I saw this solution for a Orbi RBR850 and I thought someone with a RBR50 was able to do this as well, but I have a RBR40 and a RBR20 and while it takes the commands and keeps them after I reboot, connecting my Laptop to main net work and iPhone to Guest Network simply does not give me the differet pool IP I expected..

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I seem to remember this was one of the "significant differences" between the WiFi5 Orbi and the new WiFi6 Orbi.  What a lot of people thought should be "obvious" (i.e. putting Guest devices into a separate IP subnet) was not part of the original Orbi firmware design.

I think you are destined to be unhappy until (and if) Netgear changes the Orbi firmware.

[FURRYe38]

Please post about this over in the Orbi AX Forum:

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-AX/bd-p/en-home-orbi-ax

 Thank you. 

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@safejunk wrote:

So I saw this solution for a Orbi RBR850 and I thought someone with a RBR50 was able to do this as well, but I have a RBR40 and a RBR20 and while it takes the commands and keeps them after I reboot, connecting my Laptop to main net work and iPhone to Guest Network simply does not give me the differet pool IP I expected......These were the commands....

• nvram set lan1_ipaddr=192.168.3.1
• nvram set lan1_gateway=192.168.3.1
• nvram set lan_ipaddr2=192.168.3.1
• nvram set dhcp_start2=192.168.3.2
• nvram set dhcp_end2=192.168.3.254
• nvram commit
• reboot the router
• Set the LAN IP address to 192.168.2.1 in the Orbi web GUI under >> ADVANCED >> Setup >> LAN Setup

But on Router, I get this..... no change on the network

1		--- IPHONE-XR 192.168.1.3	192.168.1.3			2.4G Guest
2		Windows PC HPLAPTOP 192.168.1.2	192.168.1.2			5G

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[CrimpOn]

The question is about doing this to WiFi5 routers, so this is the correct forum.