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Setting up Free Wifi for my customers??
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carpqueen
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Hi everyone, I need some advice please. I would like to offer Free wifi at my shop. I have read that there are routers that enable you to create to wlan's. Is this the best way to go? Obviously I would like to make my network secure but on the customers side of things, maybe a timeout after half an hour/one hour or just turning off when the shop is closed. Any help would be greatly appreciated 
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I have a Fritz Box 7390, which allows you to create a guest wlan which does not have access to your main network.
It's a bit spendy and may be overkill for what you want but it works wellWhat goes around - comes around0 -
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I have a Fritz Box 7390, which allows you to create a guest wlan which does not have access to your main network.
It's a bit spendy and may be overkill for what you want but it works well
Would any dual channel work?"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
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For example Apples Airport Express does two networks, one private and a guest network.
The other option is to use two routers (and different subnets) but you may not me technically inclined to do so.0 -
I've the older model (2820) and the wifi version lets you isolate WiFi from the rest of your network.
It would also let you use open DNS to control (to a degree) what sites are accessed and it has other measures to control users.
The configuration isn't simple but this is mostly because there are many options.
A better, potentially cheaper, but more time consuming solution might be to get a router with custom firmware, for example http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/wireless.hotspot.nodogsplash0 -
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A half-decent router like the D-Link DIR-655 offers a 'Guest' zone which can be switched on and off to pre-defined schedule.
You could set it needing a key which is displayed inside the shop to thwart most free-loaders.0
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