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[TekWarren]

I haven't paid much attention to this feature that was added in the latest FW but a friend is asking some questions that I am not sure about. It appears that the guest zone allows you to add a single wireless VLAN which by default is not routed to the original local network...very cool feature to have. The client my friend is working with would like wireless available to outside people only...no wireless will be used by the internal business. The question is can this "Guest Zone" be enabled/used without a primary wireless zone? Strange request I know, and I have already suggested that if the primary zone is required than simply turn off SSID broadcasting and enable security on it so that the common users can't see it.

I plan on testing this in the next 48hrs but thought I would ask here first

[TekWarren]

Answered my own question...with wireless enabled presently there is always a primary or main SSID but to accomplish the above setting that network to invisible and setting the security high would keep common users from knowing it was there or getting on to it. Now what would be neat is if I could segregate the wireless vlans by connection type. For example my primary home wireless is strictly N and it would be cool to be able to setup a guest zone as a mixed mode environment for such things as PSP, xbox360, etc ... but I don't know if that would negate the "performance" of having an N only network or not since technically it would not longer be N only...

[fgl30]

It seems Guest Zone works like FONERA router???

[TekWarren]

Sorry not familiar with FONERA...