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Guest Network
This has been asked before, but I can't find a recent post. It is my understanding that Xfinity does not offer the ability to establish a guest network. This has brought me to the point of canceling the service and going with Frontier (cheaper and faster anyway). So, before going though that hassle, is there anyway to do this within the Xfinity world? Can I just hang an old wifi router I have off the cable modem and start a completely different network? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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XfinityAldrik
Official Employee
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1.4K Messages
8 months ago
Thank you for reaching out to us @user_1c503e! At this time, there is not a way to set up a guest network using our rental equipment. Although, as EG mentioned you can set the rental gateway in bridge mode and set up a router or purchasing your own equipment that offers guest networking features.
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EG
Expert
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105.6K Messages
8 months ago
Sure. But be sure to put the rental gateway into bridge mode.
https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/wireless-gateway-enable-disable-bridge-mode
Or get your own equipment and stop paying the monthly rental fee altogether.
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Jlavaseur
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948 Messages
8 months ago
If your creative and think outside the box, a lot of things can have a workaround, for example, your account, you can add I believe 6 or 7 ‘users’, each individual user would have a unique login for the secure XFINITY hotspot, you can set their access, so the lowest level they have access to all the hotspots across the country, plus they can stream any tv channels you subscribe to or the free content Comcast offers, so this could be setup as a temporary account as a need be basis, rotate the password etc, i believe 3 people can access each account at the same time with correct credentials, personally I find this better then a basic guest account, of course it all depends on who your want to give access too..
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Jlavaseur
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948 Messages
8 months ago
You have the master account name, so you always have access, my suggestion is for a occasional trusted guest, I don’t know how many guests you plan to host at a given time, if several I would go a different option, I would never give out all 6, that’s not what they are designed for, just a simple work around when in a pinch…
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