Should I let people use my wifi pls help

Tattooed · 10 Jul 2015 at 17:52

Hi
My mum and I run a very small b+b. Guests always ask if we have wifi and we give them the password to use the wifi.

Now someone had told me not to give guests my wifi password.

What I want to know is, is it safe to give people my wifi password and use my internet connection?

Pls gelp

Christmas themed thank · 10 Jul 2015 at 17:57

Setup a separate guest network.

Roadrunner_668 · 10 Jul 2015 at 17:58

AlecR said:
Setup a separate guest network.

Sounds like a good plan!

Do this!

Tattooed · 10 Jul 2015 at 18:06

How do you do that on a bt home hub?

Thanks for the reply.

Mitzy · 10 Jul 2015 at 18:21

Have a poke about the router settings.

zophiel · 10 Jul 2015 at 20:37

We have the same situation. The only way we could find to seperate the wifi on our hub5 was to use different ssid for the 2.4ghz for guests and the 5ghz for us to use.

Not sure if the all things we connect with are able to connect to the 5ghz yet though. We will find out as they try and connect i suppose.

matthab · 10 Jul 2015 at 20:44

Will need a better router. Some netgears and drayteks support this feature.

Hyburnate · 10 Jul 2015 at 21:01

Check your contract. Some ISPs dont allow commercial use.

Roadrunner_668 · 10 Jul 2015 at 21:04

Hyburnate said:
Check your contract. Some ISPs dont allow commercial use.

Is it technically commercial though??

Hyburnate · 10 Jul 2015 at 21:14

Roadrunner_668 said:
Is it technically commercial though??

In a way you're leasing the line out and profiteering out of it. I'd argue it is.

e; I mean if you went for a business line then you should be okay. It entirely depends on the ISPs contract.

masterk · 10 Jul 2015 at 21:39

What if they start browsing questionable material or download media illegally?

Very dodgy territory....

Roadrunner_668 · 10 Jul 2015 at 21:56

Hyburnate said:
In a way you're leasing the line out and profiteering out of it. I'd argue it is.

Does it matter if you don't advertise the fact that you have wi-fi though?

Orcvader · 10 Jul 2015 at 22:13

By letting guests have access to your wifi, they also have access to your network. Meaning they can access other devices on the network which is a major security risk for you and your guests.

The HH doesn't support this, you'll need to buy a new router that allows guest networks and wifi, which will give you much greater control over what the guests can access. Not sure which routers provide this however at a reasonable price. I use the Asus RT-AC68U which has the feature but it's not cheap

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Roadrunner_668 · 10 Jul 2015 at 22:19

I think the standard Sky router supports it, are we sure the HomeHub doesn't? I thought they were better.

bremen1874 · 10 Jul 2015 at 22:47

I'd be looking at using a managed hotspot service.

I certainly would let a load of strangers have uncontrolled use of my broadband connection even with guest access to keep them isolated.

Roadrunner_668 · 10 Jul 2015 at 22:49

Dont BT offer an "OpenZone" service for this sort of thing?

K.C. Leblanc · 11 Jul 2015 at 09:09

zophiel said:
We have the same situation. The only way we could find to seperate the wifi on our hub5 was to use different ssid for the 2.4ghz for guests and the 5ghz for us to use.

Not sure if the all things we connect with are able to connect to the 5ghz yet though. We will find out as they try and connect i suppose.

I could be mistaken, but I suspect although you've got two ssids they're still connecting to the same network.

How much stuff do you actually have on your network and how many B&B customers are there?

Roadrunner_668 · 11 Jul 2015 at 13:16

Only some things support 5GHz also, and I think that would still be the same network yes

I file share at home with my house-mate and we sometimes use different GHz'

zophiel · 11 Jul 2015 at 13:29

masterk said:
What if they start browsing questionable material or download media illegally?

Very dodgy territory....

The type of guests we have stay in our b&b are very unlikely to do such. The average age must be 50+, they tend to come for esoteric retreats/courses/conferences etc.

Not your average joe off the street.

K.C. Leblanc said:
I could be mistaken, but I suspect although you've got two ssids they're still connecting to the same network.

How much stuff do you actually have on your network and how many B&B customers are there?

Personal stuff is 2pcs and then two consoles all wired in. The pcs have no personal data on them we do all the B&B stuff on a laptop that is not connected to the network at this time.

We can have up to 7 people staying with us at any one time.

From the information on the web, I know its not the best way of doing it. I have a HG612 sat on my desk and just need to save a few more £ to buy a better router then have a proper guest setting. Have been looking at both the netgear D7000 / R7000 and the ASUS DSL-AC68U. Just not sure the best way to go yet.

Edit

Looking back though all the settings, yes it does look like they both do use the same. So separating them was pointless. So I have just left it as both using the same SSid

Danny091 · 11 Jul 2015 at 13:37

Something like the standard Unifi access point? They are about £60 will do guest isolation. They will still be on the same LAN network as you but not able to to talk to anything.

Also allow you to do an accept terms and conditions and even pay for access using paypal or print off vouchers / tokens that you hand to guests that are valid for x hours or x days of wifi. It uses the same kind of portal that you get in an airport or hotel.

zophiel said:
From the information on the web, I know its not the best way of doing it. I have a HG612 sat on my desk and just need to save a few more £ to buy a better router then we have have a proper guest setting. Have been looking at both the netgear D7000 / R7000 and the ASUS DSL-AC68U. Just not sure the best way to go yet.

If your going to use the HG612 then get the NONE DSL version of the AC68U if you go for that one. It suports merlins firmware and more customisation. Plus people seem to find the HG612 works better than the DSL modem in it.

Should I let people use my wifi pls help

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