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Setup Guest Networks using NMS Model: CAP300 / CAP1200 / CAP1750 / WAP1200 / WAP1750

1. Make sure all units are powered ON and run the same firmware version.

2. All are connected to the router and has been assigned an IP address.

3. One only unit can be the Master, i.e. AP Controller and the rest units are Slave, i.e.

Managed AP.

4. Login to the unit’s IP address.

5. When prompts for Username and Password, use “admin” and “1234” respectively

without the quotes

6. Once logged-in, go to Management > Operation Mode (see screenshot on the left.)

7. For the Master, select “AP Controller Mode” (see screenshot on the left.)

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8. For the Slave, select “Managed AP Mode” (see screenshot on the left.)

9. Once finished booting up, the Master has the “Dashboard” as the home page (see

screenshot on the left.)

10. The Slave unit(s) is(are) using the “System Information” as home page but with starts

with “NMS Information” section from the top (see screenshot on the left.)

11. At the point, all the Slave unit(s) is(are) basically non-manageable. Most of the options

are grayed out. They are all controlled by the Master unit. Therefore, go to the Master

unit’s User Interface(UI) to continue the setup.

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12. From the Master’s UI, click the “Wizard” link from the upper right hand corner to start

the setup process (see screenshot on the left.)

13. The first screen is the Welcome message. Click “Next >>” button to begin the setup

wizard (see screenshot on the left.)

14. The second step is to select from the available Managed AP, i.e. Slave unit(s). Click the

checkbox in the front (see screenshot on the left.)

15. After that, click “Next >>” button.

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16. The last step is to create the wireless networks, both main and guest for 2.4GHz and

5GHz frequencies (see screenshot on the left.)

17. After the click “Finish” to close the setup wizard and have the settings to take effect.

18. After finished the setup and configured the Managed AP units, you should be able to

see all the created networks from your network list. Here’s the example from a Windows

8.1 machine (see screenshot from the left.)

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19. By default, Guest Network is using “STA Separation”, i.e. client devices within the

Guest Network can’t see others but they still can see the Main Network.

20. From Master, go to NMS Settings (1) > Guest Network (2).

21. Check the Guest Network SSID (3) and then click “Edit” button (4)

(see screenshot on the left.)

22. From the Guest Network Settings, change the “Wireless Client Isolation” from STA

Separator to SSID Separator (see screenshot on the left.)

23. After that, click “Apply” button at the bottom of the page.

24. Repeat the same step for the rest of your Guest Networks.

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