Give Temporary Wifi Access

How to give guests access to your wi fi without exposing your network.

Give temporary wifi access.

If you re able and willing to leave the house in order to get internet access there are a bevy of options that you can take advantage of including some of the obvious ones. I have a netgear wpn824v2 wireless router. If you use the existing wireless you would have to give public users the wep key to connect to the wireless. Offering free wifi to customers is not optional.

When you set up free wifi access for customers make sure the connection is fast reliable and safe. If you had a permanently connected desktop you could probably use a second wireless card in ad hoc mode to set up a guest network and bridge that connection with the domestic wifi but that would be a bit of a kludge probably the cheapest option though short of just changing the password temporarily. At the same time as bad as it is to not provide network access having a slow or unsecured network can be even worse. 5 25 16 10 11am filed to.

Wifi network internet security router tips desktop mobile. I need to give someone temporary access to the network but i don t want them to be able to access anything on other computers. I have a wifi router at home and sometimes i have guests which need to access to the internet via my wifi. It s now a critical part of the customer experience.

The problem with this is that once you give them the wep key they can connect at any time they wanted which creates a bit of a security concern not to mention your using wep instead of. Is there an easy way to do that. Some routers have the ability to set up a guest wifi network different ssid password. I use windows xp sp2 if that matters.

This is a topic that should interest people renting out their homes and small businesses that want to offer clients free wi fi access i wish my dentist did for example. It s quite troubling though to give them the master password to my access point.