How to Set Up and Use a Guest Wifi Network at Home

A number of visitors usually come in our homes on a daily basis and most of them want access to your home WiFi connection. And almost all homeowners hand over wireless password to their friends, colleagues, and family members. But this is not a safe trick. It’s recommended you not to share the password with everyone. Instead, make a guest network at home during new extender setup. Don’t know how to do so? Fret not as we are here to help you out.

In this how-to tutorial, we will teach you the process of setting up and using a guest WiFi network at home. Scroll down to read more.

First of all, users should aware of the benefits of guest WiFi networking. Let’s have a look at its advantages:

Plus points of this networking

Guest networking offers users an easy way to access others’ larger network with restricted authorization. In home network system, a guest access point is a local set of connections which is controlled by the similar router as that of primary local network.

These enhance security of a network. With this, one doesn’t need to share their passcode. Also, it puts a restriction on what information your friends or family members can access. They protect the primary network from worms which can otherwise be reached to other systems if a guest connects an infected device.

So, these were some of the advantages of guest access point.

How to check if your router supports guest networking?

Now, you have to find out whether your router provides support for this kind of functionality. Here’s how to know that:

There are some home and business class routers which come with built-in capability. You can also go through the manufacturer’s official website and check the documentation to know whether your device supports this functionality or not.

On the other hand, log in to mywifiext.net and find the guest network configuration tab. Some devices support only one network whereas others allow users to access multiple of them simultaneously. There are also dual-band routers that come with two bandwidth options: 2.4GHz and 5GHz. One can choose any band as per their preferences.

Once the access point of your friends and family members is in active state, its devices work on different range of IP address from each other.

Setting up a guest WiFi network

Walk through the steps given below to get the job done:

1. First and foremost, log in to mywifiext and turn on the feature. Home devices have this functionality turned off by default. However, users can enable or disable it via the given button.
2. Verify the name of network or SSID. As we explained earlier, SSID of home devices and primary ones are different from each other. By default, some routers automatically set up the same name as that of primary network but with the ‘-guest’ suffix. However, one can change the name as per their choice.
3. Enable or disable SSID broadcast. Some devices keep SSID enabled, so it can be easily seen by other gadgets. On the other hand, once users turn it off, it hides the name from scans and lets visitors manually configure their connection.
4. Turn on additional security options if required. A few access points enable guest access to Internet only, not to the local one.
5. Authenticate the maximum number of allowed guests.

Thus, one can set up a network for their friends and family members.

How to use it?

The process of joining a guest WiFi network is same as that of connecting to a public hotspot. Type in the security password with an extra care. Some homeowners are able to set up a time limit for their visitors. They can remain connected to the network until this time period.