The best hidden feature on your Wi-Fi router is the guest network — and it's for more than just guests

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A huge chunk of our lives are spent online now — working, gaming, watching, reading, and communicating — and at the center of that is the router (or even mesh Wi-Fi system) that pipes the internet into your home.

While most of us are likely to forget about the router once it's set up, and get on with the business of getting online, there are numerous useful settings on these devices that are worth knowing about. And one of those is the guest network.

You'll find it on most modern routers and mesh systems, and its primary purpose is for guests, as the name suggests: you can give visitors to your home access to the web without letting them snoop around any other devices you've got hooked up to the Wi-Fi.

However, you can use this extra network for much more than just guests — it's suitable for any kind...

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