BritishJ

They’re not actually lower powered, they just have a TDP limit set.

E.g. A 8500 and 8500T will idle at the same power consumption, but the 8500T has a TDP limit set.

Maybe the old Dysons. The new ones are rubbish. Shark all the way.

My solution is the correct way and easier way. You don’t need MAC address white-list. You just have a guest SSID with DHCP on, they get the IP from the subnet in that zone. No crazy subnet hacks etc.

Can I join your guest network, sure. Let me just grab your mac address, login to the DHCP server, create a reservation with a limited subnet mask that can still see the default gateway.

Or can I connect to you guest network, sure here is the code or scan that QR code. That’s it, they’re in the guest VLAN and subnet, zoned off on the firewall and have QOS applied to not saturate the network.

This is not the way to do it. The correct way would be multiple SSID’s with each tagged to their own VLAN.

Each VLAN has its own subnet. You can then use a zone based firewall, to allow the zones(subnets) to access each other.

You can also then apply QOS, to limit guest network speeds, prioritize LAN traffic etc.

And zone based firewalls are stateful, you can do rules such as LAN can reach IOT, but not the other way. Or IOT can only reach the IOT server, on specific ports.

When the kids breaks a window, they still have to pay. They just don’t have to source it, which means they might not be getting the best deal.

Plus, most landlords leave things till the last minute or make it such hard work for the tenant to report it, they don’t bother.

The maintenance is built into the rent, so they’re already paying for it, just not getting the best deal and losing the option to do it how they want.

I am just waiting for your switch shelf to collapse. That’s some serious flex. :)