Inexpensive AP suggestions please?

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deepakvrao

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Hi,

Just got my hospital building wired, with a data port at each floor which will be connected t a central switch which will be connected to the internet. I want to connect a wifi router there to give local wifi to each floor. I think that is called an access point?

Suggestions for anything cheap? Like 1000 bucks or so? At home I am using an Asus N13U which is cable connected to my main router and broadcasts a separate wifi for my brothers house upstairs. Works well.[DOUBLEPOST=1390906005][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, if I give free access for patients to wifi on the floors, will they be able to access my networked wired computers in my offices?[DOUBLEPOST=1390906683][/DOUBLEPOST]This one?

http://www.flipkart.com/tp-link-tl-...oint&ref=dddab18b-ce58-4ae3-8475-0e45069f3e3c[DOUBLEPOST=1390907566][/DOUBLEPOST]Will guys accessing wifi b be able to access router a wifi and/or PCs connected to that first router?

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1. If you dont want Router A wifi to be accessed by patients, simply use a seperate and strong password. typically WPA-PSK2 encryption
2. If you dont want people connected to Wifi B to be accessing your Router A computers, you will have to establish two seperate networks. So suppose The DHCP range of Router A is 192.168.1.xxx then, set the DHCP range of next router as 172.168.1.XXX with subnet mask 255.255.255.0. This way you will have two seperate networks, and none of them will be able to access devices that are on different routers
 
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vaibhavyagnik said:
1. If you dont want Router A wifi to be accessed by patients, simply use a seperate and strong password. typically WPA-PSK2 encryption
2. If you dont want people connected to Wifi B to be accessing your Router A computers, you will have to establish two seperate networks. So suppose The DHCP range of Router A is 192.168.1.xxx then, set the DHCP range of next router as 172.168.1.XXX with subnet mask 255.255.255.0. This way you will have two seperate networks, and none of them will be able to access devices that are on different routers
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Thanks. Just as an example I've taken a screenshot of my home router. I just need to change the IP Pool start and ending address? The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. So if I connect an access point, I just need to change the IP pool start? I'm a total noob.
 
deepakvrao said:
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Thanks. Just as an example I've taken a screenshot of my home router. I just need to change the IP Pool start and ending address? The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. So if I connect an access point, I just need to change the IP pool start? I'm a total noob.
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Assuming this will be your main router (router A) you will have to change IP pool starting address and IP pool ending address of your second router. Subnet mask should be 255.255.255.0. You will have to then connect lan port of router A to WAN port of router B.

Other members may comment more on this, as personally i have not implemented this scheme
 
Not sure. Though any how you are going to purchase routers for each floor, you might as well go ahead and buy this one. Then you can yourself connect to guest network and see if you can access other computers on the network. It will all depend on the IP address assigned to the guest network as far as I can for see
 
deepakvrao said:
This access point has ability to have a guest network. Will a guest network be enough to keep those people off my other computers?
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Yeah these guest networks are the VLANs I mentioned above. People say its more secure than IP address subnetting. You should set a guest VLAN on router A itself, so that patient routers connected to router A are already on the guest network.

Another point to consider is how many patients you have on each floor, since many entry level routers struggle with the cpu processing demands of multiple wifi connections and could crash.
 
Tried an old Netgear router which I had, which has a guest network option. If I 'shared' a folder on one of my wired computers, I could access it even from the guest network.

Need to see if I can allow only some computers to access the shared folders of my main computers. Now on Win 8 after a long time on Mac so will have to see what options it offers.
 
deepakvrao said:
Tried an old Netgear router which I had, which has a guest network option. If I 'shared' a folder on one of my wired computers, I could access it even from the guest network.

Need to see if I can allow only some computers to access the shared folders of my main computers. Now on Win 8 after a long time on Mac so will have to see what options it offers.
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May be you could set the shared folder permission to only a few authorized users.
 
deepakvrao said:
Just got my hospital building wired, with a data port at each floor which will be connected t a central switch which will be connected to the internet. I want to connect a wifi router there to give local wifi to each floor. I think that is called an access point?
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Can you put up a floor plan, where the data ports on each floor are located. Also a side view of the building.

How many walls (min -max) in between your AP and the patients. How thick are these walls.

How many floors.

Only after we understand this can any suggestions be made.
 
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Can you put up a floor plan, where the data ports on each floor are located. Also a side view of the building.

How many walls (min -max) in between your AP and the patients. How thick are these walls.

How many floors.

Only after we understand this can any suggestions be made.
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Not asking about range etc, just how to isolate the 'guests' from the main hospital computers.
 
Your title says you want AP's. and suggestions for AP's. Nobody can answer that unless they see some sort of layout.

as far as isolating guests there are numerous ways to do it. Sticking them in a DMZ, subnetting etc. Basically you firewall your LAN from the VLAN. Even simpler would be to stick them on an alternate internet connection. If there is nothing on your LAN they need this may be easiest.
 
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