Setting Up Guest Wi-Fi for Visitors

The guest approach

When friends and relatives visit, you don't need to hand out your main Wi-Fi password. If you run a separate guest network on your existing router, visitors who join it bypass the gateway entirely — so keep in mind it's an unfiltered path. The simpler Guardian approach: let guests join the Guardian network as guest-assigned devices.

How guest assignment works

On the Devices page, mark a visitor's device as a guest device. Guest devices get baseline protection — malware and adult-content blocking — without being governed by any child's bedtime or category rules, so a visiting teen's phone won't suddenly shut off at your kids' bedtime.

Good habits

• Rename guest devices with the visitor's name so they're easy to spot and clean up later.
• Remove stale guests when the visit ends — the device list is your inventory of who can reach your network.
• Never share the admin portal with guests; the Wi-Fi password is all they need.