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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I have spend 400 euro on 3x archer be3600 and after three days of troubleshooting and wasting my time I have found that only main wifi network is working as a mesh network. IOT and Guest are not . What a dissapointment. If I knew this before that this could be possible I would never bought Tplink :( Such a shame and waste of money !
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kralcak wrote
I have spend 400 euro on 3x archer be3600 and after three days of troubleshooting and wasting my time I have found that only main wifi network is working as a mesh network. IOT and Guest are not . What a dissapointment. If I knew this before that this could be possible I would never bought Tplink :( Such a shame and waste of money !
If you just bought the BE3600s and they are still within the return window, it's recommended that you return them and purchase models that already support the feature you require, such as Archer BE550 V2 and Archer BE800 V1.
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So, TP Link has managed to make this work on higher end WiFi 7 tri band router versions that use Qualcomm chipsets.
What is the plan for other routers? Is there any advice other than sending your Wifi 7 routers back unless they are BE550 V1 or BE800 V1 ?
Are TP-Link forgetting/still ignoring their WiFi 6 routers (and customers!) that use the Qualcomm IPQ5018 / IPQ0518 chipsets like the AX55 version - a version that you previously proved could deliver extension of Guest and IoT?
When you advised kralcak to send back his BE3600's for BE550 V2 and/or BE800 V1's - should you not have told him to consider ASUS as they have provided this functionality across a significant selection of their Wifi 6 and Wifi 7 range of routers..?
Yes - I am being a bit of an annoyed smart aleck here. But does TP-Link think that this whole situation encourages me to upgrade my three AX72 routers (Easymesh connected over Ethernet Backhaul) to TP-Link Wifi 7 routers? At present there would little to no chance.
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TheRobinK wrote
So, TP Link has managed to make this work on higher end WiFi 7 tri band router versions that use Qualcomm chipsets.
What is the plan for other routers? Is there any advice other than sending your Wifi 7 routers back unless they are BE550 V1 or BE800 V1 ?
Are TP-Link forgetting/still ignoring their WiFi 6 routers (and customers!) that use the Qualcomm IPQ5018 / IPQ0518 chipsets like the AX55 version - a version that you previously proved could deliver extension of Guest and IoT?
When you advised kralcak to send back his BE3600's for BE550 V2 and/or BE800 V1's - should you not have told him to consider ASUS as they have provided this functionality across a significant selection of their Wifi 6 and Wifi 7 range of routers..?
Yes - I am being a bit of an annoyed smart aleck here. But does TP-Link think that this whole situation encourages me to upgrade my three AX72 routers (Easymesh connected over Ethernet Backhaul) to TP-Link Wifi 7 routers? At present there would little to no chance.
Thanks for sharing your opinion and frustration with the community.
As I mentioned earlier, more models will support these features in the future. However, we cannot share a definitive roadmap or plan with the community because the plan is the plan, and it will change due to many factors.
I'll try to check with the team to see whether there is pre-release firmware for other models.
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