guest wifi password

okeytheone

okeytheone

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Hi Guys

Hope you can help,

I am on sky fibre (not sky q) and i have got a windows machine with all my itunes / media on it acting as a media server, as well as jriver and other dlna / airplay device's connected, everything was running fine up untill i had a party a week ago and everyone was connected to my wifi and was peeing about with airplay and stuff.

Is there a way i can have people to have "example a separate wifi pasword just for internet but not be connected to my network?? ie 2 x wifi passwords

I have heard someone mention a cable router approx £24.00 and ethernet that to my sky router, would this work as in plug and play??

Any ideas???
 
Assuming the Sky router doesn't have a guest wifi option built in, you could add a wireless access point which you just set up with a unique SSID and password and it cables back to the Sky router via ethernet. A cable wireless router would also work but you'd need to turn off things like DHCP else it'll conflict with your Sky router.
 
I have a separate Guest WiFi that only has Internet access and no access to the LAN. I use a combination of PfSense and a Ubiquiti AP which is probably a bit of an expensive solution but I would assume most mid to top range routers would have similar functionality, I know my old ASUS did.
 
Duke said:
Assuming the Sky router doesn't have a guest wifi option built in, you could add a wireless access point which you just set up with a unique SSID and password and it cables back to the Sky router via ethernet. A cable wireless router would also work but you'd need to turn off things like DHCP else it'll conflict with your Sky router.
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That sound's like a good idea, i take it i can do that with my sky router i have already then ??
 
A wireless access point (or router configured as one) plugged into the sky router will have full access to the entire network (even if it has a different SSID and password).
 
Ah didn’t see that bit, thought he just wanted another wireless network. Hmm probably easier to replace the Sky router with one that can offer guest WiFi access only in that case.

I’ve used some Netgears in the past which have this and weren’t too expensive.
 
I'm currently using a Netgear R7800 router at home and that has the option of guest network, got a Billion 8000AXL at my girlfriend's and that has the option of guest network also. I believe Asus routers have the same option.
 
As above, if the Sky router doesn't offer it, the cheapest option will be an AP that can do it. Sometimes it won't be called guest Wi-Fi though, and something more along like Wi-Fi/client isolation. Some of the cheaper TP-Link APs I've seen can also host their own DHCP server so that puts the Wi-Fi devices on that on a completely different subnet. Mix that with client isolation and it worked very well for guests.

Still took me ages to convince work to replace them with better stuff though :p.
 
Hi guys, got it all working with 2 x wifi,s one for main sky router and other for my net gear working in Ap mode.

But, if I log into the net gear wifi I can still use all my AirPlay speakers and dlna speakers, any ideas
 
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It's a dg834g v2, not sure what ports, I just connected it to my sky router then just about logged into the net gear as it as the same http address as the sky router, then disabled dhcp on the net gear and changed the IP address
 
If you're trying to use an old router to do this then you need one with an ethernet WAN port, since you want to double-NAT everything which while not really providing much security will at least prevent things like AirPlay speakers being discovered.

The other option is to purchase something like a MikroTik hAP ac, use this for all your Wi-Fi needs (e.g. your guest and private networks) and then segregate the two with firewall rules, and rate-limit your guests. It will have a steep(ish) learning curve though.
 
Ubiquiti Access Point with client isolation is what you need.

UAP-AC-LR is what you're after :)

e; Also turn on guest mode, post-auth restriction of the subnet you have, 192.168.0.1/24 IIRC
 
okeytheone said:
It's a dg834g v2, not sure what ports, I just connected it to my sky router then just about logged into the net gear as it as the same http address as the sky router, then disabled dhcp on the net gear and changed the IP address
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That won't work as you've just made it a simple AP. Disabling DHCP means the Sky router will still give out IP addresses to devices connected to the Netgear, meaning everything will still be on the same network. But as said above, you need one with an ethernet WAN port (which your Netgear does not have) so it double NATs and won't conflict with the Sky router.
 
Thanks guys for all the usefull info,

I am now thinking of extracting my sky username / password from my sky router and purchasing a TP-LINK AC750 ARCHER VR200 VDSL/ADSL MODEM ROUTER as what i have read this will work with sky and also has guest wifi as well and only approx £50

What are your thoughts, sorry to be a pain
 
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Hi Guys

Just want to say thanks for all your help, i setup the archer vr200, and is working brilliant, really easy to set up and now have a guest account.

Does anyone know if i need to spoof my mac address, as i have read that spoofing the mac address is needed when using a different router than the original sky one, or will i be ok as it is???
 
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