Guest with no PW

May 11, 2025 23:57

is this possible? my Guest network does not have PW and I really don't want it to the only thing different from my old system

for example my smoker would take 15 years to put a password in.

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Firewalla

May 12, 2025 02:59
Do you mean you do not want any encryption for the guest SSID?
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Andrew Miller

May 12, 2025 04:16
Yes correct, it's a separate vlan
I live out on the country so you would have to be on my property to get my WiFi
Most of my iot devices are guest
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Firewalla

May 12, 2025 15:33
Let me do a quick survey on this with the general community. In general, when we build the AP's, our goal is not implement anything that may be dangerous, and having no encryption on the wifi side is one of them.
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Quinn Ballinger

October 22, 2025 00:06
I'm doing a project for a small town library and they want an open SSID also. What were the results of the quick community survey?
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Firewalla

October 22, 2025 00:18
We did the survey, and the interest for is very little. But, we were going to lump this work with the captive portal, which likely to come to the MSP in 2.10.0 or 2.11.0;
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Andrew Miller

October 23, 2025 22:27
this would be nice i still have devices offline that are stuck lol
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John Ronafalvy

March 17, 2026 00:50
Any update on this capability? I have the Orange, and would also like to create a guest wifi that doesn't require a password. I've already created a separate vlan and a guest group. Is there an eta for this feature? Thanks!
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Firewalla

March 17, 2026 02:02
We are trying to avoid "open access" wifi, without any password. Will it be simpler, just present a simple QR code to guests and have them login using a password?
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John Ronafalvy

March 19, 2026 01:22
Ideally, it would be easier to spin up the guest wifi when there are guests in the house. This is for a vacation house. The previous router, Amplifi Instant, had this ability.
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Bryan Dixon

June 27, 2026 08:47

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I fully appreciate the security-first approach as a cybersecurity researcher, and you are making a product that is for seemingly normal consumers; however, it would be nice to have like an expert mode where you could turn this off. I just unplugged a router in my hotel room as it was seemingly causing issues or the firewalla orange wouldn't connect to it since was an open wifi network, and just plugged the ethernet directly into the WAN; however, I wanted to replicate the wireless network as a guest/isolated VLAN so the hotel and if there were other guests trying to use that router, they could. So kind of frustrated I can't... There have been a few other occasions when security-by-default or simplified settings have caused me hiccups, as someone who has historically run significantly more hands-on firewalls directly.
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Firewalla

June 27, 2026 20:39
I see two issues here:

1. Firewalla should not have any issue connecting to an SSID without a password. This is usually how captive portals are triggered. If you are having issues, best contact help@firewalla.com

2. You want firewalla to create SSID that's not authenticated. This will come for sure once we start building a captive portal.(ETA unknown).
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Andrew Miller

June 27, 2026 22:42
it just not practical to print QR code for guest visiting my house even in commercial setting it was easier to have it open and then transition to encryption

i currently have the guest set 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 - super secure lol and i have 5-10 device still offline because they are very difficult to reset to connect to a new wifi (hard wired to house electric)
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