[RT-AC68U] Guest Network Never Connects

[ctyt]

Using RT-AC68U with RMerlin 384.7_2. When I try to connect to the guest network, it shows up but never connects. I even tried to set it up without any authentication. It still doesn't connect. Tried three different phones. No connection. Tried 2.4GHz and 5GHz. Regular wifi works and connects with no problems. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Levente]

Do you have fix ip at regular wifi?

 

[CaptainSTX]

Using RT-AC68U with RMerlin 384.7_2. When I try to connect to the guest network, it shows up but never connects. I even tried to set it up without any authentication. It still doesn't connect. Tried three different phones. No connection. Tried 2.4GHz and 5GHz. Regular wifi works and connects with no problems. What am I doing wrong?

1. Save your settings.
2. Do a factory reset using option on router's firmware
3. Setup a guest network using open no security default settings, and simple SSID with no spaces or special characters and see if it is possible to connect. If connect then you will have to look at which setting is causing problem. If can't connect then there is a good possibility of hardware issue. Until you can resolve the issue you can restore settings you saved and continue using until you fix it or replace it.

 

[Ronald Schwerer]

Do you have fix ip at regular wifi?

I have "fixed" IPs for all my IoT devices that can connect to my router (on guest SSIDs) or repeaters of those SSIDs. So this isn't the problem. BTW, the IP comes from DHCP based on MAC. It doesn't care where the request came from.

 

[ctyt]

Do you have fix ip at regular wifi?

I have a few clients with fixed IPs (not any of the ones I tried to connect) but I deleted them just for testing. Didn't help.

1. Save your settings.
2. Do a factory reset using option on router's firmware
3. Setup a guest network using open no security default settings, and simple SSID with no spaces or special characters and see if it is possible to connect. If connect then you will have to look at which setting is causing problem. If can't connect then there is a good possibility of hardware issue. Until you can resolve the issue you can restore settings you saved and continue using until you fix it or replace it.

Can confirm guest network works perfectly after factory reset. Must be my settings, ugh.

EDIT: After that, I restored my previous settings and guest network started working with no problems. A mystery indeed.