Creating a secure Guest network with Orbi

[KaneB]

I have a guest network setup in my orbi and as I understand, it seems to be able to see other devices in the network and a guest device can also potentially take all the bandwidth since I cannot throttle the guest network bandwidth.

My question is, what would be my best option if I want to create a totally separate secure guest network which will not compete against my main network bandwidth? Can I just buy a cheap router, connect it to an Orbi satellite and expose it as a new AP?

[KaneB · Accepted solution]

For the benefit of others, I can confirm this works as a setup.

I bought a cheap GL inet travel router from Amazon which is about £16. It is fully featured and has the ability to limit bandwidth using its QOS features.

[FURRYe38]

If the 2ndary router has the ability to control bandwidth there, then yes you could install another router for Guest only. You'd still be competing with bandwidth at the Orbi router and ISP services however. So the 2ndary router would need to have some options to help limit bandwidth at this point. 

[KaneB]

Thank you for your response. 

Does Netgear have a router with bandwidth control on a hardware level? So instead of controlling it on a software level which they could potentially bypass. The actual hardware is only limited to a total of say 35mbps traffic?

[FURRYe38]

Not that I know of. 

[KaneB · Accepted solution]

For the benefit of others, I can confirm this works as a setup.

I bought a cheap GL inet travel router from Amazon which is about £16. It is fully featured and has the ability to limit bandwidth using its QOS features.

[FURRYe38]

Enjoy.