RT-BE58 Go

[Viktor Jaep]

I'm curious about this new Asus RT-BE58 Go router from the aspect of being able to provide a public capture portal to allow guests to get onto a guest network. It's been something I had hoped would eventually get included with our regular router FW at some point. Does anyone have one of these up and running, with Merlin FW? If so, could you please post a couple of screenshots what the public capture portal looks like... perhaps what the settings look like to configure it? I'd really appreciate it!

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Maybe better posted in the main Merlin or Asus forum rather than AddOns.

Yeah, my mistake and saw that after-the-fact. I didn't want to "be one of those people" and duplicate the post... so I was hoping someone might find this lonely post sitting here under the addons.

 

[ColinTaylor]

"Report" your first post and ask to have it moved? That's what I'd do.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

"Report" your first post and ask to have it moved? That's what I'd do.

Let's see what happens. Tim or Eric may be busy prepping for Thanksgiving dinner.

 

[dave14305]

Let's see what happens. Tim or Eric may be busy prepping for Thanksgiving dinner.

Eric already had his Canadian Thanksgiving in October.

Is this captive portal different from the GNP one? Maybe I glossed over the Go announcement.

 

[visortgw]

I'm curious about this new Asus RT-BE58 Go router from the aspect of being able to provide a public capture portal to allow guests to get onto a guest network. It's been something I had hoped would eventually get included with our regular router FW at some point. Does anyone have one of these up and running, with Merlin FW? If so, could you please post a couple of screenshots what the public capture portal looks like... perhaps what the settings look like to configure it? I'd really appreciate it!

I haven't used it, but it's there -- the very same Guest Portal that is included in Guest Network Pro (or Network) on other 3006.102- based Merlin firmware, complete with standard disclaimer. You can even add password if you like...

 

[bennor]

I'm curious about this new Asus RT-BE58 Go router from the aspect of being able to provide a public capture portal to allow guests to get onto a guest network.

The following Asus support article for Guest Portal DOES indicate RT-BE58 GO support:
[Guest Network Pro] How to set up Guest Portal?

Product GT-AX6000, GT-BE19000, GT-BE19000AI, GT-BE96, GT-BE98, GT-BE98 Pro, RT-AX57 Go, RT-AX86U Pro, RT-AX88U Pro, RT-BE58 GO, RT-BE86U, RT-BE88U, RT-BE96U

PS: The 3006.102.x firmware does have Guest Network Pro Guest Portal support for the above indicated routers.

Example Guest Portal (Captive Portal) from an RT-AX86U Pro:

 

[Viktor Jaep]

The following Asus support article for Guest Portal DOES indicate RT-BE58 GO support:
[Guest Network Pro] How to set up Guest Portal?

PS: The 3006.102.x firmware does have Guest Network Pro Guest Portal support for the above indicated routers.

Thanks for sharing. As always... the documentation seems to lack detail. That's great to know they actually did include it, and I guess I totally missed that it came out on my GT-AX6000.

I just took a look at the settings and this dropdown... so you can either specify "Free Wifi"... or Nothing. Ugh.

Why no security. It would have been great if they developed this out a bit more. Like being able to assign usernames, passwords, billing integration (yeah right), connection time limits... If this is supposed to be used for digital marketing, there's no capabilities of capturing any information... name, email, etc.

I know this is probably something more for a commercial setup, but just having some more control over this feature would have been nice. Sounds like a fun add-on to build... if there was any actual control or integration with this component.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

I haven't used it, but it's there -- the very same Guest Portal that is included in Guest Network Pro (or Network) on other 3006.102- based Merlin firmware, complete with standard disclaimer. You can even add password if you like...

How do you add a password to a captive portal? I'm not seeing that option...

EDIT: Oh I see... you gotta create it first, then you can assign a password. COOL.

 

[bennor]

Why no security.

You can at least add a passcode. Create the Guest Portal, once created there is a passcode option under Portal tab.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

You can at least add a passcode. Create the Guest Portal, once created there is a passcode option under Portal tab.

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Found that too. One of the only positives in all this.

 

[visortgw]

Found that too. One of the only positives in all this.

It's not much different than the captive portal implementation on any of the consumer routers...