Newbie Wireless Network Question

[gtannenb]

I am a newbie to wireless networks as I have always had a wired network. I currently have FIOS interest and use their supplied combined router and switch. It is a wireless router but I have disabled the wireless access. I do not feel secure in that people could not access my network via the wireless function and it is far from any place that I would need a wireless signal in my home.

I want to now have wireless access but want to try to keep it separate from my wired network. In addition, I prefer to continue to use the FIOS hardware. I have purchased an ASUS WL-520gU wireless router, which can be upgraded with Tomato or DD-WRT hoping this can help.

Are there any ways to have wireless internet only access separate from my wired home network?

Thank you

 

[Tauren]

Not sure if you could do it with 1 router and assign different subnet to the wireless (?), haven't tried it before. If not you could always use an include only filter by MAC address.

I've only had a few networking classes and they aren't my forte.

 

[ecom]

MAC address are easy to spoof and are not encrypted over the air.

The only way I can think of is to get your ISP to provide you more than one IP address and then use one for your wired network and one to your wireless network. It will be as if they are on completely separate networks.

It *MAY* be possible with VLANs, but my experience in this area is nil so perhaps someone else can tell you more about this.

 

[JackMDS]

Get a Wireless Router use it as a Router.

Give it a subnet different than yours and make sure that your wired computes' Software Firewalls block the second subnet.

Need even more protection? Make your own shares password protected.


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[ecom]

That would result in double NAT which leads to other issues.

 

[JackMDS]

That would result in double NAT which leads to other issues.

Yeah, but since he does not really wants a cohesive one Network it would not matter much.

Open ports (if needed) might be a little hassle but it can be dealt with one at the time when needed.

 

[NesuD]

Yeah, but since he does not really wants a cohesive one Network it would not matter much.

Open ports (if needed) might be a little hassle but it can be dealt with one at the time when needed.

I agree with Jack. For what he is wanting to do a double NAT should do the job without creating any significant roadblocks. The only way I know of to do it without double NAT would be to use something like a sonicwall which by default is configured with separate subnets for Lan and Wlan. That would be a pretty expensive solution for home though.