Hi -
I wanted to improve the WiFi coverage in my household.
In the past, I have always had my WiFi routers in my office, which has resulted in dead zones and poor WiFi data speeds (probably due to the cornucopia of other electronics in the area).
A few weeks ago, I had the idea to pull out my old Netgear R6300v2 and use it strictly as a firewall/router/DHCP Server (WiFi shut off) connected to my cable modem, and reposition my Asus RT-AC68U on top of one of my kitchen cabinets to act as the only WiFi source for the household.
The RT-AC68U is directly wired to the Netgear R6300v2 via a CAT5 run I had put in a few years ago. I have the RT-AC68U connected via one of the LAN ports, not the WAN port. (I think this is called a "Wired Bridge" connection)
For the most part, this has worked as nicely as I had hoped. I now get 60 Mbps over WiFi all over my house, with no dead zones (well, there's dead one spot I've never figured out - A couple of feet in any direction from that spot gets back to 60 Mbps again. Maybe I'll attack that in another SNB thread.)
So, here's the gotcha - I want to turn on the Guest Network on the RT-AC68U, and have it isolated from the rest of our household network. When I had the RT-AC68U in my office, this worked fine. However, now that I moved the RT-AC68U away from the cable modem, the Guest Network doesn't assign an IP address to the client, and never connects to the internet.
I'm assuming that this is because of how the RT-AC68U has been moved away from the cable modem and is not the actual DHCP server anymore.
Is there anything I can do to modify my architecture or configuration to get the RT-AC68U to support the Home Network as well as the Guest Network (with isolation)?
Thanks,
AzJazz
I wanted to improve the WiFi coverage in my household.
In the past, I have always had my WiFi routers in my office, which has resulted in dead zones and poor WiFi data speeds (probably due to the cornucopia of other electronics in the area).
A few weeks ago, I had the idea to pull out my old Netgear R6300v2 and use it strictly as a firewall/router/DHCP Server (WiFi shut off) connected to my cable modem, and reposition my Asus RT-AC68U on top of one of my kitchen cabinets to act as the only WiFi source for the household.
The RT-AC68U is directly wired to the Netgear R6300v2 via a CAT5 run I had put in a few years ago. I have the RT-AC68U connected via one of the LAN ports, not the WAN port. (I think this is called a "Wired Bridge" connection)
For the most part, this has worked as nicely as I had hoped. I now get 60 Mbps over WiFi all over my house, with no dead zones (well, there's dead one spot I've never figured out - A couple of feet in any direction from that spot gets back to 60 Mbps again. Maybe I'll attack that in another SNB thread.)
So, here's the gotcha - I want to turn on the Guest Network on the RT-AC68U, and have it isolated from the rest of our household network. When I had the RT-AC68U in my office, this worked fine. However, now that I moved the RT-AC68U away from the cable modem, the Guest Network doesn't assign an IP address to the client, and never connects to the internet.
I'm assuming that this is because of how the RT-AC68U has been moved away from the cable modem and is not the actual DHCP server anymore.
Is there anything I can do to modify my architecture or configuration to get the RT-AC68U to support the Home Network as well as the Guest Network (with isolation)?
Thanks,
AzJazz
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