Airport Extreme Guest Network

[ChristianSadler]

I currently am running a version 7.6.3 Airport Extreme on my home network, but it seems as though my roommates use up all of the bandwidth. So I decided to open up a 2.4 GHz guest network for the two of them on a separate SSID while I reserve the primary 5GHz network for myself. But it seems that when they download things on the guest network it still slows down the main network too. Is there any way to fix this or restrict the bandwidth of the guest network? I was under the impression that the guest network could only use 10-20% of the bandwidth of the main network.

Also, when I did a google search for this I kept finding things about using a/b/g/n networks and restricting them to A while I set myself to N (with N being the fastest and A being the slowest). How would I do this? Thanks in advance for any help

 

[smellalot]

Are you sure that you're talking about your wifi bandwidth?
Sounds to me as if your problem is slow Internet speed. If that's the case a faster wifi won't help you. QOS might help you with that.

 

[bohbot16]

As far as I've found there's nothing in the Guest Network feature that limits the bandwidth.

 

[marzer]

I currently am running a version 7.6.3 Airport Extreme on my home network, but it seems as though my roommates use up all of the bandwidth. So I decided to open up a 2.4 GHz guest network for the two of them on a separate SSID while I reserve the primary 5GHz network for myself. But it seems that when they download things on the guest network it still slows down the main network too. Is there any way to fix this or restrict the bandwidth of the guest network? I was under the impression that the guest network could only use 10-20% of the bandwidth of the main network.

Also, when I did a google search for this I kept finding things about using a/b/g/n networks and restricting them to A while I set myself to N (with N being the fastest and A being the slowest). How would I do this? Thanks in advance for any help

The guest network on the Apple routers do not do bandwidth limitimg. However, what you seem to be describing is the limitation of your internet bandwidth. What speed do you get from your internet provider?

 

[Weaselboy]

The Guest network feature is not going to help you... it still shares the same bandwidth with the main network. What you need is a router that supports QOS.

What you might do it get a cheap wifi router that supports DD-WRT or Tomato firmware. Then put that router in bridge mode connected to your Airport Extreme. This way you can use the unrestricted AE for wifi and force the roomies onto the QOS restricted second router.

 

[ofteninjured]

Block internet from guest network

I am looking for a way to disable internet access from the guest account on Airport Extreme (4th gen).
I want users on guest network to share access to all services on the intranet, but not have any access to the internet.
Is Airport Extreme capable of setting this up?

 

[Dalton63841]

I am looking for a way to disable internet access from the guest account on Airport Extreme (4th gen).
I want users on guest network to share access to all services on the intranet, but not have any access to the internet.
Is Airport Extreme capable of setting this up?

No. The entire point of the guest network is to allow access to the internet, WITHOUT giving them access to your local files and machines.