Guest Network and AiMesh

[miroco]

An idea that hit me when I was about to go to bed.

If I use "Smart Connect" and a single unified SSID, why is it then that "Guest Network" still is segregated with different SSIDs for the 2.4 and the 5 GHz bands? Could this be one of the reasons why "Guest Network" isn't accessible across an AiMesh? Maybe it's a legacy design pre-dating "Smart Connect"? Could layers of identical SSIDs isolated from each other of cause, dictated by the main SSID/SSIDs structure dictate the structure of the "Guest Network" SSIDs be a way forward, or should I've just gone straight to bed?

 

[Swistheater]

An idea that hit me when I was about to go to bed.

If I use "Smart Connect" and a single unified SSID, why is it then that "Guest Network" still is segregated with different SSIDs for the 2.4 and the 5 GHz bands? Could this be one of the reasons why "Guest Network" isn't accessible across an AiMesh? Maybe it's a legacy design pre-dating "Smart Connect"? Could layers of identical SSIDs isolated from each other of cause, dictated by the main SSID/SSIDs structure dictate the structure of the "Guest Network" SSIDs be a way forward, or should I've just gone straight to bed?

they are just extensions of the bands you are already using. like a mock version. if you think that is crazy, if you knew how to or had the right scripts you can even define certain rules for them-- also you can make them accessible to an ethernet port as well.

 

[miroco]

So that's why the "Guest Network" is confined to a physical device? Thanks.

 

[Grisu]

guest are only additional broadcasted SSIDs together with main SSID, maybe same for 2G/5G or different or only one of them, up to your setting, there is no relation to SmartConnect which will limit some settings and functional only for main SSIDs.
Keep in mind your Aimesh nodes wont support guest SSIDs!