I am worried that there is not really a benefit of doing that, just more noise and energy consumption.

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    Guest devices can’t communicate with other guest devices

    How do you accomplish this isolation since they’re on the same subnet/broadcast domain? Is it a feature of the hardware you’re using?

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      A lot of access points, even consumer-grade ones, have this option. It’s usually accomplished via predefined firewall rules on the access points themselves.

      Consumer-grade access points usually let you have just one isolated guest network, whereas fancier ones (Omada, Unifi, Ruckus, Aruba, etc) usually let you enable isolation for any SSID (ie the “guest network” is no different from any other SSID)

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        4 months ago

        Isolated guest networks I get, but isolating guests from other guests on the same subnet/isolated net is what I haven’t seen.

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        I’m not seeing anything there that says guests can’t see other guests - quite the opposite.

        guests connected to your Hotspot Portal will be isolated from all other networks except the one they are assigned to.

        Guests on this network are able to access the internet, and communicate with the UniFi gateway to obtain a DHCP lease and resolve names using DNS

        I suppose a switch could be configured to prevent traffic going to other ports, which is how I would assume this would have to be done. This functionality would have to exist in the access point, I guess?

        Does UniFi have a feature to isolate devices from each other on the same subnet? Seems like it would require some kind of Layer 2 routing?