On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:34:56 -0500, "Martin Riddle"
wrote:
"Jim Thompson" wrote
in message ...
In the annual run-up to Christmas, Thompson-style... scheduled to
accommodate grandchildren in college, meeting the fiancee of the
oldest granddaughter, out-of-state grandchildren, and prosecutors who
had "murder duty" on the 25th, we'll celebrate Christmas this year on
Saturday, the 29th.
The first arrival, 11 years old, from Palm Springs, asked, "Opa, Do
you have WiFi? I need my WiFi!" ;-)
Presently I have a Linksys 8-port router, since I wired the house with
CAT-5 as it was being built, 19 years ago, never thinking wireless.
I have a few spare ports on the Linksys.
What should I get as WiFi, considering the following...
House is essentially 65' x 65', so I need good range. But I can
easily locate transponder 8-10' off the floor.
How do I set it up so grandchildren can access the web, but not
intrude on any of my PC's? Already had the wife's PC's E-mail fouled
up by the 5-year-old :-(
...Jim Thompson
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You can do that easily with another (wireless) Router between your
Linksys and your cable modem.
Provided your linksys has a decent firewall, it should work.
It would look like this:
cable Modem---------Wireless Router---------- 8port linksys
Router--------- Lan
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Wireless clients
You may have to recycle the cable modem power to update the bridging to
use the new MAC address of the router.
Also, configure the Wireless Router to a different IP address of your
lan. Something like 192.168.150.1
Cheers
Yep, you certainly do need to update the MAC address.
Wouldn't it be easier just to plug the wireless into an unused Linksys
port?
...Jim Thompson
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