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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As I see it something has been done on AX55 Hardware Version: V1 Firmware Version: 1.5.10 Build 20251119 rel.50509(4555)
The Guest network will be propagated from MASTER to the SATELLITE if you go to master AP / Advanced / EasyMesh - scroll down to Mesh Device Details, click Modify on the master and enable Traffic Separation. This is supposed to cause guest network settings to be synchronized to the satellite. And it does - radio wise! BUT when enabled it also separates the traffic of the host network and guest network. In my Access Point setup this has the side effect that I can connect to the WiFi guest SSID, but I do not get any IP from the external LAN DHCP server - and cannot use the guest network for anything!
I might (I say might) work in normal router mode and might also work if you use the built-in DHCP server of the AX55 - I don't know.
So to sum up: Guest Network (not IOT) does propagate (radio wise) over EasyMesh in the most recent firmware, but it is IMHO still buggy and does not work in Access Point mode - no data from Guest clients connected to the SATELLITE AP gets transmitted over the LAN/WAN net.
Please fix this - and also make it possible to enable IOT on an EasyMeshed SATELLITE AP either as one big EasyMeshed Network SSID or as individual SSIDs for each AP (today you loose almost all configuration options via WebGUI on an EasyMeshed SATELLITE AP/Router)
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