[plb]

I seem to have a requirement that is regarded as completely unnatural by network designers. I can't believe I'm the first to have this requirement, so I hope a guru on this forum can point me in the right direction.
I live in a shared house in which there are two separate Windows networks. However we are constrained to a single cable access (pay TV, internet and 3 phones). Is there a way of giving both networks access to the internet via the cable modem while preventing the networks from seeing each other?

Peter

 

[johnwill]

You can do it either with an expensive router, or a handful of cheap ones. The expensive router will allow you to separate networks and still have them all connect to the Internet.

For the cheap solution, connect a router directly to the service. Connect two additional routers to the LAN ports of the first router. Make sure the base address of the two added routers is configured to be in a different subnet than the primary router's base address.