E4200 Guest Network issues

Hey, I recently set up this router, and enabled the guest network, but it almost never takes me to the login page, and when it loads it takes an abnormally long time. Everything else works. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Did this ever get resolved? We have the e4200 1.0.03 & two wireless devices (one laptop & one desktop) and the cisco page pops up asking for the password = connected. BUT, the other device (desktop) connects to the e4200 but the cisco login page never pops up? BTW The wirekess icon indicates that there is a good connection & signal strength... but not able to access internet :^(
BTWW Already done all the software up grades , turned the computer on and off, rebooted the router and all that. Oddly, this device had a wireless connection a few days ago & now the cisco window doesn't pop up asking for the password. What gives?
Thanks, Ben

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E4200 Guest Network Not Working

I cannot get the Guest Network feature to work.
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[email protected] wrote:
I have now tried 3 of these routers and the problem as I see it is when you set the E4200 to bridege mode with a static IP then the client receives a .33.x address receive the E4200's default gateway and a .33.1 as the dns servers. I don't see how the clients could resolve dns with these 2 entries.
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I hope this helps people that are having problems.......
(Mod Note: Edited due to non-compliance of forum guidelines.)
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Unfortunately, Apple assumes that you will be using a simple modem with their routers. Something like this, for example, which will allow the Guest Network feature to work correctly, since the AirPort will be the main router on the network.
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Hi all. We're having a odd issue with two guests on our 2012 R2 failover cluster.
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Hi Sir,
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>>Next step was to live migrate server A to another node. This action did
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