Blog – Dan Joannis

Creating a Private + Guest WiFi Access Point (DD-WRT)

Recently I was asked to configure a WiFi access point for a small business, who needed to have both a private internal network, and a public guest network.

There are many privacy concerns when having guests share your network. Specifically, it is desirable to:

• Disallow access to any computers on the private network
• Prevent network abuse (such as P2P file sharing)
• Secure the access point itself from tampering or unauthorized access

Of course, all this needs to be done without impacting the desired service: Internet access.

Although I found many guides online for setting up a guest network when the access point was also the primary router, I didn’t find any that worked for the intended network. So, after some trial, error, and research, I managed to get it to work.

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Tags: ap, dd-wrt, internet, router, wifi