Hi All,
Need to some help from the collective mind, networking is not my forte! I have just taken an office out in a shared building where internet access is provided for us. They have deployed their own wireless access points for shared internet. As you can imagine, on this network are all sorts of devices, printers and other IOT devices that people have freely hooked up. I would like our office wireless network. I have the option to take an ethernet cable that is currently running off the AP to another office, with the caveat the other office remains connected, and that I do not interrupt any of the other building shared network.
My simplistic thoughts are (but very much open to challenge on making it more complicated)
- Put an unmanaged switch in place between existing cable that gives my office a feed off it, without interrupting what is in place at the moment, and without causing any management headaches for the building.
- Deploy our own network on a different range, using our own AP, and then have NAT running to then access the internet via the shared building network.
- Open to doing something smarter with VLAN's if it makes sense, but as said can't touch the shared internet in the building, but can for example do something with the cable that is going to the other office (as they don't care, as long as they get wired internet as they game/stream)
We can buy whatever hardware is needed but we have a spare Mikrotik HAP ac2 that has been given to us that could be used, and also a Homehub 5A that is running OpenWRT. Although I'm tempted to just get a Unifi AP for more modern Wifi.
Thanks!
Need to some help from the collective mind, networking is not my forte! I have just taken an office out in a shared building where internet access is provided for us. They have deployed their own wireless access points for shared internet. As you can imagine, on this network are all sorts of devices, printers and other IOT devices that people have freely hooked up. I would like our office wireless network. I have the option to take an ethernet cable that is currently running off the AP to another office, with the caveat the other office remains connected, and that I do not interrupt any of the other building shared network.
My simplistic thoughts are (but very much open to challenge on making it more complicated)
- Put an unmanaged switch in place between existing cable that gives my office a feed off it, without interrupting what is in place at the moment, and without causing any management headaches for the building.
- Deploy our own network on a different range, using our own AP, and then have NAT running to then access the internet via the shared building network.
- Open to doing something smarter with VLAN's if it makes sense, but as said can't touch the shared internet in the building, but can for example do something with the cable that is going to the other office (as they don't care, as long as they get wired internet as they game/stream)
We can buy whatever hardware is needed but we have a spare Mikrotik HAP ac2 that has been given to us that could be used, and also a Homehub 5A that is running OpenWRT. Although I'm tempted to just get a Unifi AP for more modern Wifi.
Thanks!