Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 10:08 Post subject: Netgear Wndr4500... Issues with guest wifi.
So far I've ran into this with best I can recall all FW tried. What I'm running now is the one released on 7/2 hoping it would fix the "issue".
So here's the deal...
First... I don't care about the isolation thing. Anyway, whenever I try and make a guest network. I can't seem to use it even though I can see it broadcasting.
So to make this easy... I would like someone to otherwise walk me through setting up a usable guest network this way we can deal with issues as they're ran in to since as of right now I'm on a fresh install with only me naming and securing the primary 2.4/5Ghz channels.
Ty. _________________
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http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Tutorials _________________ Segment 1 XR700 10Gb LAN, 1Gb WAN ISP BS
Wired AP 1 Unifi Wifi 6 LR US 1Gb LAN
Wired AP 2 Unifi Wifi 6 LR US 1Gb LAN
Wired AP 3 Unifi Wifi 6 LR US 1Gb LAN
Syslog Services Asustor 7110T NAS 10GB
NetGear XS716T 10GB Switch
download1.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/betas/ (Brain Slayer)
YAMon https://usage-monitoring.com/index.php
I saw that and I don't care for the isolation ATM since I can't even get a basic guest network going which I should be able to do just by creating the virtual interface and naming it.
All it does is keep showing "connecting" but never doing so.
At this point in time I'm bout ready to go back to Netgears FW and I really dont want to because I came to DDWRT for Yamon. TBH, Yamon is the only reason I'm even using DDWRT.
But ya, I'll straight pay someone and let them VNC into my machine to do this for me so they can see I'm not a nutbag or maybe show me wtf I'm doing wrong just trying to get a basic secured (PW Protected) guest network. Only downfall would be them not being able to see what the device trying to connect is doing.
Edit: At this point in time. I'm going to do a clean flash and open/pw protect the main 2.5/5Ghz networks as I figured out how to proceed which at present I feel I will need to have someone do this for me and I pay them with them just VNC'ing in to my machine connected to the router.
Would anyone who maybe gets this a bit better than me want to make a few bucks ? Grant it letting someone "in" is always risky but I try to do my homework first on a person.
But ya, I gotta be f'n something up somewhere. I can make a basic guest network with no isolating stuff. Encrypt it with WPA2 AES like the main 2.4/5Ghz channels but can't seem to otherwise use it to get online whereas the main channels look and operate just fine. _________________
What version of the wndr4500 and what dd-wrt build?
Need much more information before anyone can help you.
Is this a router holding a WAN connection or is it just an AP?
What wireless radio are your trying to make a guest network on?
At work right now so will get to it tomorrow sometime but I can say right now it's the V1 with the brick psu. As for the version... The one released on I think 7/4 but the "issue" is the same regardless of the version of ddwrt out of the few I've tried. _________________
This is, btw, after (finally) doing a GUI reset a week ago, which has resolved the high wireless error rates and (at least greatly helped the) 2.4GHz radio dropout issues I'd been having. _________________ #NAT/SFE/CTF: limited speed w/ DD#Repeater issues#DD-WRT info: FAQ, Builds, Types, Modes, Changes, Demo#
OPNsense x64 5050e ITX|DD: DIR-810L, 2*EA6900@1GHz, R6300v1, RT-N66U@663, WNDR4000@533, E1500@353,
WRT54G{Lv1.1,Sv6}@250|FreshTomato: F7D8302@532|OpenWRT: F9K1119v1, RT-ACRH13, R6220, WNDR3700v4
This is, btw, after (finally) doing a GUI reset a week ago, which has resolved the high wireless error rates and (at least greatly helped the) 2.4GHz radio dropout issues I'd been having.
That's what it kept doing for me... trying to obtain but never could regardless of how I tried to do the guest network. _________________
That's what it kept doing for me... trying to obtain but never could regardless of how I tried to do the guest network.
This morning I tried connecting the laptop while the guest network was open; it connected (unlike the phone), but had no internet. Direct IP addresses did not work either, so it wasn't just a DNS issue.
Still an issue regardless of encryption or isolating methods used. Seems I'm not the only one either so why this is even an issue for more than one person for something that should work is beyond me but there has to be someone whos super techy on these forums with an idea.
SSID broadcasts fine, just seem to get stuck at trying to connect / get an IP for the guest network.
Could care less for the isolating feature. I just want a working, password protected guest network. _________________
a 30x30x30 x 3 should work / make a guest wifi ok with the simplistic way I want which is just secured with a PW and no ISO stuff ?
Even during my initial original flash. I don't recall ever getting this working.
I have no idea if that would help you.
Just wanted you to know what I did. I've been doing this a long time but this was first time I got into such a mess. I reset and CL nvram erase and went back to older known working builds but still had trouble getting a VAP to work.
Only after multiple button resets over and over and over I was able to get a trusted build to work perfectly.
I then started installing last few new builds and they all worked fine.....GUI reset and reconfigure from scratch and they all worked fine.
Don't have your router so don't know its capabilities.... I'm just passing on info.
The E2500 I was using has had many different 3rd party firmware and many many many dd-wrt k2.6 builds & k3.x builds back & forth over few years .... likely in my case some cobbled up settings code hanging somewheres.
'bout all i know
