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<blockquote data-quote="jetman" data-source="post: 936416" data-attributes="member: 63028">I have set up a guest network on my router which I use to connect to smart devices, an old Android phone I use for browsing and also looking at websites that are possibly insecure.&nbsp;&nbsp; I like to keep these activities separated from my main home network to reduce the chances of malware spreading.Within the router&#039;s settings I have configured the&nbsp; guest network so that devices connected to it are unable to communicate with each other.&nbsp;&nbsp; I assume this helps to make it more secure.However, I read somewhere that there is an even more secure way of creating a guest network using a second router.&nbsp; This configuration would apparently reduce the chances of a person&#039;s &quot;main&quot; router becoming hijacked or infected by malware (the main router being the one that your home network and everyday computers are running on).&nbsp; Can anyone tell me how to achieve this and also whether it really would help to protect my primary router ?I have a spare router which my ISP provided and it still gets updates so I might as well make use it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jetman, post: 936416, member: 63028"] I have set up a guest network on my router which I use to connect to smart devices, an old Android phone I use for browsing and also looking at websites that are possibly insecure. I like to keep these activities separated from my main home network to reduce the chances of malware spreading. Within the router's settings I have configured the guest network so that devices connected to it are unable to communicate with each other. I assume this helps to make it more secure. However, I read somewhere that there is an even more secure way of creating a guest network using a second router. This configuration would apparently reduce the chances of a person's "main" router becoming hijacked or infected by malware (the main router being the one that your home network and everyday computers are running on). Can anyone tell me how to achieve this and also whether it really would help to protect my primary router ? I have a spare router which my ISP provided and it still gets updates so I might as well make use it. [/QUOTE]

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