Guest Access extending

[mylesm]

HI

I have a netgear wndr3700V4 as my main router works good but range is not great

It is located in my office downstairs in a 2 storey home I have hardwired to the lan ports a Linksys NSLU,A VOIP phone,A Sonos Zone bridge,a WD Media player these are all located beside the router so moving all these is not an option

I frequently have guests staying and for them I have the guest network available on the Netgear which restricts them to Internet only no access to my internal lan works but very poor connection in upstairs bedrooms

I hope someone can advise if i put an ap upstairs how can i restrict that wireless ap to internet only as it will be hardwired to lan port on my netgear router

Thanks

Mylesm

 

[mylesm]

anyone any advise please

 

[PrivateJoker]

Posting in multiple threads just confuses people. But you can put just about any additional router you want upstairs and set it to use a different subnet (ie 192.168.2.1) and you could even leave it's routing functions on since I don't think the typical issues of a router behind a router would be of any concern since they're just using it for regular simple net access. Just use a different SSID than your main router.

Also you can reposition your main router, with moving or leaving in place as much of the hardwired clients you'd like by using a 5-8 port dumb gigabit switch.