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VLAN Tagging for Guest Network
I've seen a couple of posts about this in the past on this forum, but all of them appear to be kinda old, and before you could uncheck the "Allow Guests to see each other and access my local network"...
That's a bummer, I had assumed because of posts like this: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Support-for-vLAN-tagging/td-p/1266588 that it was something that they were open to, but they just hadn't gotten to at the point that post was made. I was actually hoping that it was already implemented somewhere in the interface that I hadn't found yet.
Netgear still hasn't been convinced to provide basic fundamentals, like:
- Restoring the capability to see which node and band devices are connected to
- Providing a firmware changelog
- Allowing Ethernet backhaul
- Preventing guest networks from breaching the network perimeter over IPv6
GIven the UI complexities of implementing a proper tagging interface, and what's more, _handling_ those tags (i.e. firewalling, etc.), I'd imagine this feature would fall into the "pie in the sky" category more than anything else. Netgear will promise the world, but delivery is another matter entirely.
Naturally, I quite hope to be proved wrong on this one, but an outcome even worse than them not delivering is delivering it half-baked, which if anything might well be the most likely ending to the story. Time will tell, I suppose.
Personally, I share the gripe of many on this and other (Linksys comes to mind) forums that this "me too!" business of "mesh networking" by players with no business in the game is disenchanting to an extreme. eero, as much difficulty as I had with their (ultimately returned) product, appear to be the market leaders for good reason...they actually had a plan and are executing against it with very clear technical knowledge of the needs (if not desires) of the market they virtually single-handedly created. Now if only they could stop being so dependent on the cloud...
Rodney