Cascaded Routers Guest Network Not Working

[punk4yahweh]

I have 4 routers cascaded together (ASUS AC1300 routers) using this info guide

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/33700-42-ultimate-modem-router-setup-thread

Everything is working great except the guest accounts. The guest account works great on the first router (the master) but not on any of the others (the slaves) On the slaves I can connect to normal and 5g wifi but the guest account will not let me connect, I can see it broadcasted just cannot connect. I need the guest account as I use that to set up QOS controls so that way the guests are not sucking up all the bandwidth.

Any thoughts?

 

[bill001g]

It depends how you set them up. If you run the devices as AP many times the guest network will not function. The guest function in consumer routers really only works when the device is directly connected to the internet. Even if you would run the routers as routers all the traffic is combined on the wan port which really is just your main network. It does not and can not keep the traffic separate.

Setting up multiple networks in a home environment is almost not possible using consumer routers. It takes a extremely messy configuration just to keep the traffic separate and this is with out the guest networks.

The only way to really make this work is to use vlans. You would need a vlan for your main network and one for your guest. The main router would be the only device that act as a router for these vlans and would need rules to force the guest to the internet. The vlan itself would prevent traffic from crossing in the other devices.

Problem is almost no consumer routers support vlans. Asus tends to support third party firmware. You could check if the model you have will support dd-wrt. It may also support the asus-merlin firmware or maybe asuswrt. asuswrt is not really supported much and has bugs so you want the merlin software if you can get it. All these firmware have the ability to run vlans.