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?

If you want to truly isolate ALL wifi network from LAN (including shared
printers, files etc) there's no problem.
Doing as you suggest should be straight forward.

I have done this myself through purchasing a Fon WAP/router purely to
give me access to ALL the BT/Openzone hot-spots when out and about. It
handles all it's network address allocation etc and keeps everything safe.

Another way to do it depends on your main router.
If it allows separation via vlan. you can isolate router ports from one
another which is an easy way of keeping networks apart.

Pete@
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