Better handling of guest networks?

[apenney]

Hi,

I'm currently using the stock firmware on a RT-AC68U and I rely on guest networks a lot for wifi (different guest network per kid, that I disable on/off depending on how things are going with behaving!)

One thing that drives me insane is that on the stock firmware disabling a guest network seems to restart the entire radio and drops all the networks completely, which is a pain in the butt when I'm working.

Does asuswrt-merlin work in exactly the same way? I'm trying to decide between this and leaping to dd-wrt in the hope that it's not a driver issue and just the way the UI lazily handles networks.

 

[Pilman]

Yes, It works the same way.
I use a lot Guest Network in the same way as you do (kids) and all
those dis/connections are a big problem.
Didn't know we can install dd-wrt on our devices !!
bye

Hi,

I'm currently using the stock firmware on a RT-AC68U and I rely on guest networks a lot for wifi (different guest network per kid, that I disable on/off depending on how things are going with behaving!)

One thing that drives me insane is that on the stock firmware disabling a guest network seems to restart the entire radio and drops all the networks completely, which is a pain in the butt when I'm working.

Does asuswrt-merlin work in exactly the same way? I'm trying to decide between this and leaping to dd-wrt in the hope that it's not a driver issue and just the way the UI lazily handles networks.

 

[RMerlin]

There is no difference in Guest handling between stock and mine.

 

[apenney]

There is no difference in Guest handling between stock and mine.

Do you know if this is something completely handled in the driver and therefore unimprovable, or something to do with how the UI handles guest networks? I am just hoping you know off the top of your head if this is ever something that can be "fixed".

 

[RMerlin]

Do you know if this is something completely handled in the driver and therefore unimprovable, or something to do with how the UI handles guest networks? I am just hoping you know off the top of your head if this is ever something that can be "fixed".

Not sure, but even if it was firmware-side, it would require some major architecture changes to manually handle virtual interfaces individually.