Future Consideration make Guest and IoT Networks Mesh-able and extendable
as per title, and per image bellow:
it is absolutely useless to have an option to enable Guest and IoT Network if they are NOT transmitted/extended by EasyMesh
we have guests up there and surprise-surprise we also have a lot of IoT devices up there and all over the place. whole point of having Geust and IoT Network is to unload and secure the main wifi network. it is unacceptable to not have an option to extend those too.
what if we want to connect IoT devices up there too? or what if we do not need Guest Network down there at all, only up?
therefore, make it happen to be able to select multiple (at least) 2,4Ghz SSIDs to be extended when establishing EasyMesh Network
as things are now we can do only:
- not use Guest and IoT Networks and have all devices and guests on the main wifi network
- buy 4 more extenders to extend Guest and IoT Networks in two directions (UNACCEPTABLE) and even with those 4 more extenders they won't be part of EasyMesh
- complain, suggest future request, wait and finally sell all TP-Link faulty products and move to other brand which supports such basic functionality
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Full agreement.
I'm in the process of doing the same. A BE9700 is going back to TP-Link unused. An AX75, two RE450s and two RE315s will go to the flea market when the replacement technology is complete.
In today's world, it makes no sense not to propagate the IoT or guest network via mesh.
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Absolutely agree! Will be returning a TP-Link RE653BE range extender because it doesn't extend range of IoT and Guest networks.
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@Marvin_S Another highly disappointed customer here. Just got 3 of the archer BE550 this week, now I regret doing it. Everything works kinda good, but then I got guests today, I give them the guest password, and surprise, the guest network doesn't appears and when it does is very weak signal. After troubleshooting I find out that is only transmitted by the main router (on second floor), so even if we are just at the side of one of the satellites int he first floor, there's no guest network there, just on the main router.
This completely kills the "Easy Mesh" idea cause is not a real mesh and is not easy at all. I regret buying this ones and seriously thinking on returning them and get ASUS as long as they can retransmit all SSID and not just the main network ones.
EDIT: And looking at the date of the first post, I lose hope that TP-Link is even going to do something about it, is been more than a year. And I found posts of even older routers from more than 2 years with the same issue and the people form TP-Link just say the same "Going to tell the development team to if they add it but there's nothing sure", we see that they choose to ignore us and give us a big "SCR*W YOU AND DEAL WITH IT, we not doing it".
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Agree. Had no reason to expect the entire network would not be easymesh connected. Had Deco (7) M5 and M9 routers, but wanted faster and more parental controls and splitting my network. Got the the BE550pro. Working fine except some IOT devices in my yard. Got the Archer BE230 to extend the network, and come to find out IOT is not extended. Really disappointed!
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