Sam
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At one of my customer's sites, they have a wireless router which everyone in the office uses to connect to the network/Internet.
There is a section of the building which is open to the public, and they want to enable wireless Internet access for them but they don't want members of the public being able to browse the LAN or use the printers etc.
What is the easiest way of sorting this out?
Edit: forgot to add, the office is upstairs and public area is downstairs, so they'd need some sort of access point for downstairs.
They are all running XP by the way.
[Edited on 21-01-2011 by Sam]
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pow
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VEEELANNNSS
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pow
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A decent Draytek or Cisco router will do VLANs, then a bogo access point
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Sam
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Could I not use a spare modem/router somehow?
(this is for a charity, and they don't have much cash for anything "expensive")...
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pow
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I'm thinking you could use a router for cable connections (one that you plug the cable modem in by a patch cable) and instead connect it back to the wireless router. Set the cable (guest) router up on a different subnet and issue the WAN port a fixed IP address in the range of the upstairs router?
Not sure if it would work though
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Sam
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Hmmm... Well I've got a few spare modem/routers here so I'll see if any of them can do such a task and if so, just sell them one of those.
Otherwise, it's Cisco time!
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pow
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It'll deffo work, it's if they can still access the 'upstairs' LAN still - I've done it at one of my customers
Drop me a U2U/Facebook Message/MSN if you want a hand.
[Edited on 21-01-2011 by pow]
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Sam
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Cheers mate.
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