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Title: How do I create a wireless network for internet only?
Post by: anothermonkey on March 06, 2012, 04:54:58 PM

I have a working wired network and really all I want to do is set up my DIR-655 on it so that it provides internet only for wireless users, but doesn't allow access to the rest of the local network. I though that's what the Guest network would do, but when I connect to that I can still type in local IP addresses and get to those devices.

"Enable Routing Between Zones" is unchecked in the Guest Zone settings.

Is this even possible? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Title: Re: How do I create a wireless network for internet only?
Post by: FurryNutz on March 06, 2012, 05:50:13 PM

Internet is a constant to the LAN ports in back. You could try Mac Filtering for those PCs that you don't want to have access or set up schedules as well.

Title: Re: How do I create a wireless network for internet only?
Post by: anothermonkey on March 06, 2012, 06:01:10 PM

I think my wording was confusing. Nobody will connect to this router via the wired LAN ports. We already have a wired network for that. What I want to accomplish is to create a wireless network that gets people to the internet, but denies any attempts to communicate on the local network.

It looks like I might be able to accomplish this by:

1. Setting a different IP range for the DIR-655. I gave it a 10.0.0.0 range, whereas the local network is 192...

2. Use Access Control under the Advanced tab to deny the entire 192... range of IP addresses.

I just set it up like this an it appears to be working. Wifi gets internet, but can't talk to the local network.

I don't know if this is the best way to achieve this goal, so if there's another way or a better solution, I'd love to hear about it.

Thanks!

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Title: Re: How do I create a wireless network for internet only?
Post by: davevt31 on March 06, 2012, 09:54:49 PM

Try enabling the WLAN partition on the Advanced>Advanced Wireless page.