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N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Premium Edition WNDR3800 Guest Networks Adding a guest network allows visitors at your home to use the Internet without giving them your wireless security key. You can add a guest network to each wireless network: 2.4 GHz b/g/n and 5.0 GHz a/n.  To set up a guest network: 1. Select Basic > Guest Network to display the following screen: 2. For a 5 GHz network, scroll down to view that section of the Guest Network screen. 3. Select any of the following wireless settings: Enable Guest Network. When this check box is selected, the guest network is enabled, and guests can connect to your network using the SSID of this profile. Enable SSID Broadcast. If this check box is selected, the wireless access point broadcasts its name (SSID) to all wireless stations. Stations with no SSID can adopt the correct SSID for connections to this access point. Enable Video Network (5GHz only). Set up a wireless network for video streaming. See Set Up a Video Network on page 30 Allow guest to access My Local Network. If this check box is selected, any user who connects to this SSID has access to your local network, not just Internet access. Enable Wireless Isolation. If this check box is selected, then wireless clients (computers or wireless devices) that join the network can use the Internet, but cannot access each other or access Ethernet devices on the network. 4. Give the guest network a name. The guest network name is case-sensitive and can be up to 32 characters. You then manually configure the wireless devices in your network to use the guest network name in addition to the main nonguest SSID. Genie Basic Settings 29

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Genie Basic Settings
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N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Premium Edition WNDR3800
Guest Networks
Adding a guest network allows visitors at your home to use the Internet without giving them
your wireless security key. You can add a guest network to each wireless network: 2.4 GHz
b/g/n and 5.0 GHz a/n.
To set up a guest network:
1.
Select
Basic >
Guest Network
to display the following screen:
2.
For a 5 GHz network, scroll down to view that section of the Guest Network screen.
3.
Select any of the following wireless settings:
Enable Guest Network
. When this check box is selected, the guest network is enabled,
and guests can connect to your network using the SSID of this profile.
Enable SSID Broadcast.
If this check box is selected, the wireless access point
broadcasts its name (SSID) to all wireless stations. Stations with no SSID can adopt the
correct SSID for connections to this access point.
Enable Video Network
(5GHz only). Set up a wireless network for video streaming. See
Set Up a Video Network
on page
30
Allow guest to access My Local Network
. If this check box is selected, any user who
connects to this SSID has access to your local network, not just Internet access.
Enable Wireless Isolation
. If this check box is selected, then wireless clients (computers
or wireless devices) that join the network can use the Internet, but cannot access each
other or access Ethernet devices on the network.
4.
Give the guest network a name.
The guest network name is case-sensitive and can be up to 32 characters. You then
manually configure the wireless devices in your network to use the guest network name
in addition to the main nonguest SSID.