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Help! I've been at this for days trying to work out how to get a Guest Network setup in a specific way before some guests arrive on Thursday.
I'm wanting the guests to have access to the internet via a separate SSID, and access to just a couple of my smart home devices (basically: the ability to send audio via wifi to a speaker, and the ability to use their Netflix account on their phone streamed onto the Smart TV or Apple TV).
Chat GPT and Gemeni told me that the ASUS RT-AX86U Pro would be able to do this via Guest Network Pro and VLAN, so after a false start with the RT-AXE7800) I ordered the ASUS RT-AX86U Pro.
In addition to the primary network, it said to setup a network in Guest Network Pro for IOT Devices, and a network for Guests. I put all of my IOT devices on the IOT Devices network, and (with a couple of device exceptions) I can access them from the primary network, and my guests cannot other than internet access - as was expected.
Then it said I could provide access to select devices I want the guests to be able to reach via IP or MAC address to the Guest Network so that users could send audio, etc, to those devices. It stepped me through a number of different ways it said this would work (and you'll have to forgive me a little here, as this is where my understanding of it is more sketchy) one after the other, and each ran into a dead-end, before, after hours at this, it tells me it was wrong and the router can't do it. I've probably put a little too much faith in ChatGPT and Gemeni (or maybe it's the operator)
Either way, I don't trust it either way now as to whether the router can or can't do this.
From recollection it had me configuring settings related to
- DHCP server settings
- Route settings
- Firewall settings
(as different ways to solve it, as each previous way was unsuccessful)
Does anyone know - is what I'm wanting to do possible with this router?
I bought a WiiM Mini expecting that guests could send their audio to it, but if I put it on the IOT network they can't currently reach it, and so I tried putting it directly on the Guest Network, but the router doesn't allow access to it. They can reach it via the Spotify app, but this uses Spotify's internet routing rather an my internal wifi network (which isn't a big problem - but access to do this can't be reliant on all guests having a spotify account).
Any help, direction, or advice would be greatly appreciated!!
It is running the latest firmware 3.0.0.6.102_34349 and operating in Wireless Router mode.
I'm wanting the guests to have access to the internet via a separate SSID, and access to just a couple of my smart home devices (basically: the ability to send audio via wifi to a speaker, and the ability to use their Netflix account on their phone streamed onto the Smart TV or Apple TV).
Chat GPT and Gemeni told me that the ASUS RT-AX86U Pro would be able to do this via Guest Network Pro and VLAN, so after a false start with the RT-AXE7800) I ordered the ASUS RT-AX86U Pro.
In addition to the primary network, it said to setup a network in Guest Network Pro for IOT Devices, and a network for Guests. I put all of my IOT devices on the IOT Devices network, and (with a couple of device exceptions) I can access them from the primary network, and my guests cannot other than internet access - as was expected.
Then it said I could provide access to select devices I want the guests to be able to reach via IP or MAC address to the Guest Network so that users could send audio, etc, to those devices. It stepped me through a number of different ways it said this would work (and you'll have to forgive me a little here, as this is where my understanding of it is more sketchy) one after the other, and each ran into a dead-end, before, after hours at this, it tells me it was wrong and the router can't do it. I've probably put a little too much faith in ChatGPT and Gemeni (or maybe it's the operator)
Either way, I don't trust it either way now as to whether the router can or can't do this.From recollection it had me configuring settings related to
- DHCP server settings
- Route settings
- Firewall settings
(as different ways to solve it, as each previous way was unsuccessful)
Does anyone know - is what I'm wanting to do possible with this router?
I bought a WiiM Mini expecting that guests could send their audio to it, but if I put it on the IOT network they can't currently reach it, and so I tried putting it directly on the Guest Network, but the router doesn't allow access to it. They can reach it via the Spotify app, but this uses Spotify's internet routing rather an my internal wifi network (which isn't a big problem - but access to do this can't be reliant on all guests having a spotify account).
Any help, direction, or advice would be greatly appreciated!!
It is running the latest firmware 3.0.0.6.102_34349 and operating in Wireless Router mode.
