Wi-Fi Access Points that support a segmented guest network?

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rj834

• November 28, 2022 23:06

Hi all, I've been scratching my head on how to get an AP which breaks out the guest network into it's own traffic and evidently this is a tall order!?

I was using an Apple Airport Extreme for the longest time and as a router my guests never touched my network and as an AP the same held true.  I simply moved it into AP mode behind the Firewalla, defined a VLAN (1003) for guest and with just one cable attached to the Firewalla, I had two networks.  With the new Netgear RAXE290/300 this functionality breaks in AP mode.  The guest network gets the same permissions as my internal and has access to absolutely everything!  I have my devices grouped and have defined IoT, Guest, etc. (same guest network) as having no access to the main network, but if I go on the guest network and even move my laptop to that group, the internal network is wide open.  

Is anyone using a Wi-Fi6 AP with the guest network segregated with any success?  If so what brand/model or what Firewalla config?

Thanks!

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  Michael Bierman

  • November 28, 2022 23:10

  Unifi and Orbi Pro have no problem with this. 

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  Radagast82

  • December 01, 2022 22:12

  Using zyxel nwa510 with segmented w-vlan with no problems

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  rj834

  • December 01, 2022 22:49

  Thanks. Looking at the Unifi products now. Adding Zyxel to the list.

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