In article , Piers
scribeth thus
On 01/08/2013 09:10, thescullster wrote:
Hi all

OK so this is maybe a bit OT for the group, but here goes.

I've never been a fan of wireless, so cabled the house up with Cat 5 to
a number of rooms. There are clearly now numerous devices that will
only connect wirelessly and I am under pressure to add a WAP.

I've inherited a Netgear DG834G wireless router, our existing network
uses the wired version of this device. I have set up the wireless
router as a WAP OK, but wondered if it is possible to configure it as a
DHCP server with a different address range to the wired router.

Not sure how much security this would add, but I'm inclined to do as
much as possible to separate the wireless network from certain wired
devices. The SSID of the WAP is hidden and MAC address filtering on
that router is in place.

Anyone setup a separate wired and wireless network?

TIA

Phil

Personally I wouldn't bother with NATs/firewalls internally. I have my
LAN and WLANs (two of them) on different subnets, and each wireless
router has it's own DHCP server (it is authoritative for its own
subnet), but I have it all routed rather than NATted to make it easy,
and don't bother with firewalls internally. But then I'm in the sticks
at low risk of drive by hacking.

As an example, of why I want it set up this way - I have a print server
set up on one of my wireless networks - to be able to access it from the
other requires either routed network (or bridged) or some manual NAT
configuration (which just isn't worth the hassle).

Personally I favour the Linksys WRT54g series of APs - they're simple
and they just work. I also have some new fangled 802.11n TP-Link AP and
it's total crap - just can't hold a connection - I recently replaced it
with another wrt54g off ebay.

Which ever route you go;!, make sure to use WPA rather then WEP
encryption WEP is very easy to crack WPA much less so...

WPA2 if it offers you the option...
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Tony Sayer