Setting up guest wifi for public

shifty_uk

shifty_uk

shifty_uk

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I have a customer that has a warehouse operation with a shop/public facilities under one roof.

Unfortunately the phone signals in the area aren't the best so they're looking to get some form of wifi in place that will allow guests to easily connect when on-site.

Does anyone have any knowledge of what setup is required?

They have a leased line with enterprise firewall and router so something that's relatively easy to plug and play would be ideal.

Initial browsing found found this but not sure how secure it would be:
 
Thanks for the response guys,

This stuff is a bit over my head tbh. The main requirements are secure, easy-to-manage guest wifi with a captive portal(built in ideally), and proper network separation i.e. guest users shouldn’t be able to access the core business network. The core business setup is already in place, so we’re really just looking to add a simple guest WiFi layer on top without needing to rework the existing infrastructure.

Armageus said:
our main "WORK" SSID makes use of Private Pre-Shared Keys, so we have several different "Passwords" and depending what is entered puts devices onto different VLAN / Networks. So e.g. we have 1 password for our devices used in the warehouse that connect to our main network, but can also give each onsite customer their own password that allows them to use their devices, but isolated to their own VLAN on site (rather than them using the guest portal every day).

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This sounds impressive but a bit overcomplicated for the current requirements.

Edit: Should add that a layer of logging/monitoring would also be ideal, to ensure guests aren't using the wifi for dodgy stuff.
 
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