Ozb,
As a safety precaution, I don't want to give my password out for the wifi that I use at home.
So I'm thinking I should set up an additional wifi network for when I have guests come over to use, similar to how a business might offer their clients free wifi.
I'm still on ADSL2+ so my internet isn't very fast. Therefore, I want the guest wireless network to have limited speed and capabilities.
Just wondering if anyone has done this before at their household and how they went about it.
Turn on Guest WIFI network and set download/upload limit, set an easy/funny password, done.
You should be able to setup multiple wifi passwords via your router portal.
Go to router, enable 2nd SSID/Guest wifi.
Don't worry about the 'speed' as they are guests and will only be there for a short time.
Unless of course you're selling this to your house mates and want to limit them?
Unfortunately, my guests stay for hours and if they bring their kids along they'll want wifi for their iPads.
and? OMG 'hours' of internet usage…… Do you not have a unlimited data plan?
Jimmy's given you advice. How about you actually try it before giving up.
FareEvader took Jar Jar binks' advice and said no to JimmyF's advice.
Saying 'no' is also an option by the way.
Agreed. You don’t have to provide wifi. And their kids need to learn to entertain themselves sans iPads.
So what are you doing on the internet whilst your guests are there? Are they too boring to talk to? Generally our ADSL2+ speed is fine, even with other people surfing. I agree with setting up the alternate network but I wouldn’t be worried about rate limiting them unless your plan is really rubbish.
Honestly the easiest option is to move next to a hotel or McDonalds and have your guests use their wifi.
I agree. This is by far the easiest option.
Don't need guest wifi if [taps head] I don't have any guests
Are your guests with Telstra? We recently had a friend stay with us for a week or so. He used Telstra air.
I want the guest wireless network to have limited speed and capabilities. Just wondering if anyone has done this before at their household and how they went about it.
Doing it everyday. This is a trivial task when you have the appropriate gear. All my IoT devices are rate-restricted on their own SSID (and VLAN and without access to the main network, but that's another topic).
At my home:
At my relative's home:
Hey Albion,
Just wondering the reason you restrict your IoT devices? Is it to limit their use of bandwidth and prioritise your phone/laptop/chrome cast or other?
Cheers
Rate limiting was necessary when I was on ADSL so that I can have guaranteed bandwidth for the important stuff. That reason doesn't hold now that I am on nbn. Now rate limiting is just in case the insecure IoTs got hacked, the hackers will have a very bad time on my LAN. Also, it doesn't take 100Mb/s to tell my lights to turn on so why let the IoTs have access to that speed?
I'm also interested to know which devices, which might be problematic, and if your IOT hub is on the separate SSID as well (silly question perhaps).cheers
All IoTs are insecure if they phone home to external servers. Security is only as strong as the weakest link and you have no control over the security of the external servers and the firmwares on the IoTs. This is one reason why the US and we don't want Huawei gear in our communication infrastructure. (GCHQ observed Huawei gears phoning China.)
Everything that has no business with my data gets isolated. If a device needed access (e.g. a smart speaker streaming local music) then a rule is added to the firewall separating the VLANs.
Thanks for the reply, good advice, will set this up myself
I have guest wifi set up for my kids, apple tv, games, etc. Easy enough as netgear has this built in. This means they can't access any of the wifi settings. Only issue is printing, as devices are not shared, but they don't print much anyway. My work around for this is to have a separate guest network access point that has a printer attached. Main reason for setting this up is so that they don't infect my work PC which is on the main network with any malware that they pickup.
we have a dual band router and multiple channels. I named all my SSID to the avengers names like ironman and hulk. so whoever looks at the available networks they get a screen full avengers names my neighbour did the same with Disney princess. freaking hilarious.
no advice to give here, but thought I would share what I did.
guest Wifi, if its unlimited data who cares.
You're worried about guests having Wifi but you've only got ADSL Internet? It's like inviting someone to dinner and cooking them Spam. I would worry about upgrading to Cable or NBN before sharing wifi passwords.
I'm not on ADSL by choice. NBN and cable are both not available at my address/area.
Ok well even mobile internet plans will give you better speeds. No matter where you are than ADSL. How come you're not on an unlimited plan? It's not exactly that much more than a normal limited plan. Just share the password that you normally have if worried about guests having internet that much
Unless you have a lot of random guests… what do you think your invited guests are going to do with your wifi?
No.