topic Re: Does EE Smart Hub offer guest network, VLAN segregation or bridging? in Broadband & Landline

Does EE Smart Hub offer guest network, VLAN segregation or bridging?

PotatoHulk — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 19:39:24 GMT

Does the EE Smart Hub offer:

guest network (with client isolation), and/or
VLAN segregation, and/or
bridging to a third-party router (not just disabling WiFi)

Some background: I have an Echo device and growing number of IoT devices. To protect against network intrusion (from an IoT device into my home network) it's been suggested I should either put the Echo and IoT devices on a guest network or on a separate VLAN.

A more complex recommendation is three VLANs: home, devices, guest.

I'm currently on BT Broadband using a BT Smart Hub 2 which doesn't support:

guest network, or
VLAN, or
bridging

It seems that I will be encouraged to migrate from BT to EE Broadband sooner or later. So I am trying to find out if the new hub will be better suited to securing my IoT network, before I start shopping for yet another device.

(I'm aware of Advanced Web Protect but that sounds more like a firewall, rather than internal security from a hijacked device. If there are more details on how AWP works I'd love to read them.)

Re: Does EE Smart Hub offer guest network, VLAN segregation or bridging?

PotatoHulk — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 19:44:50 GMT

Well, Setting up Guest WiFi sounds promising! That page says:

Guest’s devices are kept separate from your main WiFi to help keep your home devices safe.

That sounds about right. But are guest devices isolated from each other as well?

Re: Does EE Smart Hub offer guest network, VLAN segregation or bridging?

XRaySpeX — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 20:55:44 GMT

The EE Smart Hub Plus does have 1 Guest network & VLAN. It does not support bridge mode/modem only.

Re: Does EE Smart Hub offer guest network, VLAN segregation or bridging?

Ewan15 — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 12:32:10 GMT

OK I have set up the Guest network via EE App for Smart Hub Plus

How do I make the Printer visible on Both networks?

Re: Does EE Smart Hub offer guest network, VLAN segregation or bridging?

XRaySpeX — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 12:44:53 GMT

@Ewan15 : You can't by WiFi! Devices are separated from each other between the 2 networks as they are either connected to 1 SSID or the other at any 1 time. If you want to share a printer it would need to be connected by Ethernet.