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 believe we should at least get an answer from TP-Link with the current status of this request.
Because with no status update we do not even know if this feature(or rather requirement) will be implemented and when.
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I am adding my vote for TP-Link to add guest and IoT support.
I got a GE650 and two BE230's to set up a mesh system to replace an older Netgear Orbi system. I wanted to upgrade to WiFi 7. So far, I am happy with the performance of this new routers. I used the same SSIDs and passwords so all my devices would connect after replacement. I was confuesed when some of my smart devices and some of my security cameras stopped working. After a bit of time, I figured out the BE230's were not broadcastingthe guest network. I then went to the internet to see what configuration I missed. To my surprise, I didn't miss anything. The support is not there. After reading complaint after complaint on the internet, my confusion moved to dissappointment and then to anger. I can't believe TP-Link has the audacity to release a product claiming to support EasyMesh but it doesn't. I read a lot about EasyMesh on the TP-Link sites before getting these routers. I didn't see anywhere that this was not supported. I did read several places where TP-Link recommends using TP-Link routers even though EasyMesh is an industry standard. Everything I saw lead me to believe if I used TP-Link products, I could make an EasyMesh system that works. Well I was misled by the TP-Link hype. I was excited to get my IoT devices off my guest and onto an IoT network. But unless all your IoT devices are close together, that can't happen with TP-Link EasyMesh as it is now. The nature of IoT devices is that they are throughout the house, not clumped together closely near the router. Rant over.
TP-Link, PLEASE PROVIDE FW UPDATES TO FIX THIS BLATANT OMISSION! OR AT THE VERY LEAST PROVIDE YOUR CUSTOMERS WITH A REPLY ON WHAT YOU ARE DOING. Sorry, I guess the rant wasn't quite over.
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Adding a vote for this, seems pointless to have TP-link mesh devices if not usable for guest and IoT. Also it seems rediculous that IoT access point cannot also be isolated from main network similar to guest access point options.
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