EA4500 Guest Access - Poorly specified - please reconfigure ASAP

Question

The ability to offer guests internet access without exposing the internal network and its devices is valuable.
However, the method used to implement this on the EA4500 is not convenient.
Firstly the naming constraints are unnecessary (same as the 2.4GHz SSID with '-Guest' appended), and
secondly, the mandatory use of a password is highly irritating.
Because of these 'features', I have been forced to disable EA4500 guest access and rely on the more user friendly capabilities offered by the access point supplied by another provider.
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Answer 1

jlbjlb wrote:
The average user won't understand why their Internet doesn't work as good as it used to when they leave guest network password disabled. But the neighbor's teenage kids will know why. But their lips will be sealed.
The average geek is going to understand this and use a cheap router as an access point for guests and turn on AP isolation and/or mac filter and disable broadcast ssid, and be done with it. Most geeks will engage wireless security on the AP 5 minutes after their guests leave.
There is an existing parameter which gives the user the ability to specify the number of guests on the network at any one time, this gets round the network congestion problem, especially as there are QOS parms which can be adjusted to protect bandwidth for streaming video, VoIP etc.
Not everybody has neighbours within WiFi range (to be honest they can be quite close and yet out of range with the ea4500), or even freeloading neighbours. Persistent abusers can be blocked.
If Cisco wants to cut down on support calls about poor network performance, they should take more care with the default set up.
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