How is the best way to set up a local broadband wireless network for use in a guest house?

How do i configure this? What are the hardware requirements, access issues for guests etc?


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ThanksHow is the best way to set up a local broadband wireless network for use in a guest house?
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once set up you can always give the customers your WEP key so they can connect to the internet ...I would change this key every so oftenHow is the best way to set up a local broadband wireless network for use in a guest house?
Wifi - Just buy a router... plug it in to a room that a guest doesn't have access to (for security reasons). Set up a password then tell the guests the password when they arrive. You may want to change the password after a guest leaves if you really want to. For instructions you will need to read router manual as all routers have different setup methods. Be sure to check the wifi range so that it reaches every room in the house.
Well, the answers the others give are technically correct. But I think you are asking for a bit more, so let me try to touch on a few other areas.





First, you speak of a guest HOUSE. This tells me it is removed from your house, and this may present a signal strength problem. Wireless is range limited, and the more walls you have between the wireless Access Point (AP) or router, the more the signal strength will be reduced. So you the house will have to be relatively close.





You don't mention whether this is a bed and breakfast type of arrangement, or somewhere where people you know will stay, like out of town relatives, or maybe just a mother-in-law house. This might affect how you would want to set up the wireless in relations to lets say a firewall in order to protect your own computers from anything that the guests may be trying to do, or whatever virus or other such nasty things they may have brought with them inadvertantly.





If you want maximum protection, you would secure the wireless as the others suggest, but tie it in on the outside of your firewall. For example, a cheap firewall appliance is a SonicWall. It has a WAN port where you connect the internet. It has a LAN port where your equipment would come in, and it also has an OPT port where you could put the wireless router. The firewall would protect the LAN from both the WAN and OPT, and the OPT could then have protection and access to the Internet. Under this scenario, you could probably leave off any password access to the wireless. It would make connection for the guests easier. However, if you are close to other housing, you may get others who might use the wireless and take up your bandwidth unless you protect it with a WEP or WPA key.