Help with hooking wireless network??????

[nmmc999]

I am working at a small business and they have a wired network in place. They want to give there customers wireless access. Do i need a wireless access point and do i have to change up anything? They said they have a static network or something. can you help me?

[crazijoe]

Hello and welcome to TSF.

You might want to rethink this and bring up some concerns to your management. The biggest IMO would be security. You let any one on your network and you will have people in your parking lot looking at your network. The best approach to this would be to setup an AP in a DMZ.

[nmmc999]

Ok, this if for a restaurant so everything they possible do is on that network. If there router has a port for DMZ hosting then how would I access that if they do not have any info on that router anymore? Is this hard to do or should I tell him it would be safer and less worrisome to just ignore the whole wireless thing altogether?

Thanks for the help

[johnwill]

I'd suggest that you connect a wireless router directly to the ISP connection, let the guests connect to that. Then, I'd use the following instructions to connect a secondary router to shield you from the guest connections for the internal network.

Connecting two SOHO broadband routers together.

Configure the IP address of the secondary router to be in the same subnet as the primary router, but out of the range of the DHCP server in the primary router. For instance DHCP server addresses 192.168.0.2 through 192.168.0.100, I'd assign the secondary router 192.168.0.254 as it's IP address.

Disable the DHCP server in the secondary router.

Setup the wireless section just the way you would if it was the primary router.

Connect from the primary router's LAN port to one of the LAN ports on the secondary router. If there is no uplink port and neither of the routers have auto-sensing ports, use a cross-over cable. Leave the WAN port unconnected!