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Why is there no guest WiFi option on a Cox Panoramic Router?
Fairly new Cox customer. My old ISP offered an option for a Guest WiFi. This is a great feature as i never had any concerns about handing this password out to guests at our house. I honestly thought this was a pretty standard feature that every router had these days. I also recently purchased a smart home device and sadly that manufacturer has limited the length of a WiFi password. That's a whole other story but my complex password is too long and i really don't want to change it. A guest network would help solve that issue too.
I just picked up a stand alone access point to create a guest WiFi. I have it up an running but my current issue is that the Cox Panoramic router doesn't seem to have a support for Vlans. I can now solve for easily getting poorly designed smart home devices and guests connected to my network, but now i have no separation between those guests and my home devices. Not an ideal situation IMO. If you couldn't already tell i take security seriously.
How have others solved for this problem? Any suggestions outside of ditching the cox equipment and buying my own modem and router?
bearone2
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6 years ago
doesn't the 2nd router have it's own login/pw for guests??
fwiw, i have to run my old router/2.4 from one of the ports on the panoramic modem/router because the 10 year old laptops won't connect to the combo unit & each ssid has it's own login/pw.
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Becky
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Vplw1226
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6 years ago
We just switched back to Cox and have their newest panoramic router. Not sure the model number but it's kinda a square box with 1 light on top. It's pretty upsetting they don't have guest Network anymore. I mean that seem like a pretty basic necessity especially if you don't want to give out your main password. I've talked to multiple tech support and they really are pushing this stupid app. That's their reply Everytime I ask about guest Network. "I would encourage you to download our new app and configure your WiFi settings there" smh ok but that stupid app has nothing to do with guest Network. What can you do with the app that's so special? Set devices to certain people in the household, see who's using the most internet, disable cerrian devices etc .. Honestly the app ** in my opinion and would much rather guest Network be brought back
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