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Is Wireless AP possible without network access?

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RosemarysBaby

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Apr 24, 2006
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Here's my situation. I have a restaurant with 12 PC's and a router all plugged into a switch. I want to give my customers wireless internet access. Naturally I need them to never be able to see or access my lan. A guy at a computer store today sold me a DLink AP and said I could simply leave the the default IP on the DLink 192.168.0.50 and plug it into my Linksys router on a 192.168.1.1 scheme, static, and that should do it.

I did try this and I could see my network group in explorer but I couldn't expand it.

My question is: Is this enough security? Is there another way to achieve what I'm trying to do here, or is the only safe way to bring in a second broadband line strictly for internet?

Any help is much appreciated and try not to get too techy on me,
 
Put the public WAP on a seperate IP Subnet

IE
10.34.2.2
subnet 255.0.0.0

Should be good from there

Marco
EC Enterprise Consultants
Communications Specialists
Over 40 Years Experience
 
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