How can I activate Guest Wifi in Access Point Mode?

Technical Support for Routers
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How can I activate Guest-Wifi in Access-Point mode?

Because this is not possible via the GL-Inet Gui, I went via Luci to the Wifi settings and activated the existing Guest-Wifi again.
Wifi is then accessible and I can log on, but Internet does not work. What am I missing here? Do I still have to set a route, rule?

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This is because Guest Wi-Fi are not available in Access-Point mode.

In AP mode, the device is a Network Bridge working at the Link Layer without NAT, while the guest network needs to use the IP protocol in the Internet Layer.

Simply said, in AP mode, the IP of the client device is assigned by the primary route, not from the GL router. And enabling guest WiFi requires the GL router to assign WiFi to the guest network.

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Okay, thanks for the explanation.
Then I have to think of another solution.

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Thank you so much. This was the whole reason I purchased it was to put it into AP mode and only have Guest Wi-Fi mode on and have regular Wi-Fi OFF. Hmmm.

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A Unifi access point would allow you to do this if you can get one instead.

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What does Guest wifi do in your case, as regular wifi is off, which make AP mode not meaningful.

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Could you explain how in general terms?

Say main router has private network gateway as 192.168.33.1. Guest network’s gateway is 192.168.66.1

I am assuming as long as the ap creates each wifi pointing to each gateway, then we should be good?

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It uses the parent's router's same IP subnet but has this beautiful and unique feature called the hotspot portal that helps you create an isolated and guests dedicated wifi (you do not even need to have a guest network on your main router):

Also see here:

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