Extend Guest and IoT wifi to Easymesh nodes
Pretty much as the picture describes. I have a BE3600 (archer BE230) in my office, where the fiber box is located, and I am using an AX72 Pro in my living room to create a mesh network in the whole house with a CAT6 creating the backhaul connetion between the two.
The main wifi mesh network is working flawlessly, as i am getting high speeds in all the house with quite seamless AP roaming, and both nodes are updated to the latest firmware.
The problem is that the guest network is not being "replicated" from the AX72 Pro in the living room, where i actually need it the most (I have NAS and other sensible equipment to which I would not like to give guests access, if possible).
I know for sure that it is not impossible to have a system like this to work, as I have just upgraded from a mercusys AX3000 mesh system that supported whole house mesh with both main and guest networks, while costing half of the combineation of BE3600 and AX72Pro
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I agree wholeheartedly.
When I changed over to the TP-Link routers (2 as Easymesh nodes), I kept the same names and passwords, so my devices would connect without having to connect everything one at a time. I had previously used Guest for my IoT devices. Some of my IoTdevices didn't work and others were intermittent. It took my a while to find out why they were having problems. They are too far away from the main router and couldn't connect, or connected intermittently. The nodes that they should have connected to didn't broadcast Guest. I had to go change the connection of those IoT devices so they would work. That was a pain because most were smart plugs, so I had to reset them and then connect them to the main network using my phone. I had to figure out how to do this since I had originally connected them some time ago, and had forgotten how they worked. Now that they are connected to my main network, which is broadcast by the nodes, they work fine. The Guest and IoT are pretty much useless. I had a guest stay with me and they connected to my Guest network. It worked fine until they tried to use their notebook in my living room. Guess what, it didn't work...too far from the main router. It took me a minute to figure out they were on my Guest network and that was why. They had been here before and connected to my Guest network and could go anywhere in the house and stay connected. They were now relegated to stay closer to the main router. These are a BAD user experiences caused by TP-Link. This has been an issue for a long time, with a lot of customer feedback to TP-Link. TP-Link has not addressed it, nor have they given us any feedback on if or when they will address it. As you can tell I am not a happy camper, but apears as if TP-Link doesn't care.
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Little update: some user on reddit has confirmed that a firmware update for the AX55 recently implemented this feature! So maybe there is hope also for the rest of the lineup.
Here is the link:
https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/786342
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One additional request: allow users to configure the IoT networks to use a different WiFi channel. This at least can reduce the interference of Satellites in the Easy Mesh network. They're broadcasting much stronger 2.4GHz signals than the IoT of my main router.
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