Best way to set up temp WAP at home?
We have some guests that will be visiting for a week or so (at our house). I have a Verizon wireless router here for WIFI, but I want to add something more to provide our guests with WIFI, using a dif...
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Bill.Winegard wrote:
If you don't care about providing full access to everything on your network you can just bring your WiFi Ranger in and setup the Guest pass code.
You can also buy a second router (or use the Ranger) and connect the WAN port of the Ranger to the LAN port on your router setting up a separate IP address in that unit. The users connected to that router would have full use of the internet but no access to your in-house network.
Techo geeks may need to jump in here for some details, but I think I have that right!
This is what I want to do. I did the other suggestions in the past, but it was a PITA to get the wireless network printers set up, and I really don't want to go back to a network key that was used before.
I can bring in the Ranger and try to set that up, but I have a few wireless routers here that are notbeing used. Would like to put one of them in service as a WAP, and no problem placing it in the garage, between the existing router and the house.
I think I vaguely remember that a router like a Netgear or Linksys, can be set up as WAP somehow in a setup menu. I'll check into it.
