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[BobSimons]

I'm wanting what several others have asked for: guest zone with DHCP while DHCP is off on the main network, and I understand basically that it won't do that and it'll never be fixed. So the question is "is there any halfway reasonable work around that isn't too absurd?" I guess the question is whether a second router, with no WAN attachment with DHCP on, set to the guest SSID, with proper DHCP settings, etc, would get through to the main network. If it would not, then just about any junk wireless router with working DHCP could be used to make the guest zone useful. Any thoughts on this?

If that idea, or variants of it are not useful, are there only four other options?
(a) plug an access point into a DMZ port
(b) replace the 655 with a unit that can do it?
(c) static addresses for guest zone machines
(d) give it up?

(a) would require an N router as it would need both DHCP and N wireless but the first idea, if it worked could get by with only a G wireless unit.

[Sammydad1]

If I understand what you are asking....

Set your wireless encryption to WPA2 with AES cipher for your main SSID....  then Hide your SSID (disable broadcast) in order to prevent guests from gaining access to your Primary LAN....

Is having DHCP on your guest zone important ?  I would presume that some DHCP is set by default within the firmware that allows for a Guest Zone in the first place....  I would hope the router would segregate things by SSID between Primary and Guest zones...

That would pretty much rot-eggs if the router couldn't keep them apart.