Question on creating multiple wireless networks

snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news:1115160965.761406.218030 @o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

you'd need a cisco aironet or something like it to do that...

multiple ssid's aren't supported in most consumer products.

are they?

smowk

Smowk wrote in news:Xns964BCA348631ASmowkieBandit@216.196.97.131:

I guess the answer lies in how the "two wireless networks" are defined.

It's trivially easy to have two separate access points (or a wireless router + additional access point) with different SSIDs and encryption. In fact, I do it [in my case, to segregate 802.11b and

The simple case is to have a single subnet behind the router. However, if you want to run two separate subnets, then you will need a second router at the border. It becomes fractionally more complex, but given that resources are not shared between the networks, there isn't really a problem.

Hope this helps

I believe you are correct, most SoHo level WAPs don't support multiple SSIDs.

And although I happen to like Cisco Aironets (I've been installing

You can likely get two of them for around $100 total, where a Cisco

If you buy two SoHos all you have to do is setup each on their own channel, each have their own SSID, and configure your computers to use the secure one.

-chris

chris wrote in news:030520052257517640% snipped-for-privacy@mythtech.net:

chris' suggestion is probably your best bet