smudgesmith
New Around Here
Hi folks, not terribly technical but have managed to achieve the following so far:
Main router and broadband modem is a Netgear DGND3700 which serves the house.
Attached via powerline networking are 2 DGN1000s with DHCP turned off and reserved addresses outside of the DGND3700 IP range (192.168.0.253 and 254). Each DGN1000 has its own distinct wifi SSID/password. I'm using 2 APs in the cottage as the walls are very thick. This allows any guest in the cottage internet access, but also access to anything on my LAN.
Now, I need to find a way to stop users of the cottage wi-fi accessing anything else on my home LAN (NAS, Mac, iPad, Printer etc...) and I have absolutely no idea how to do that. I've spent most of the day on google but I don't really know the terms I am googling for so have drawn a blank.
There is a complication though. There is a wireless room thermostat in the cottage which I need to access from my LAN in the house so that I can control/limit the heating settings available to the guests. I could do this over the internet from the house, but that seems a bit pointless when it is on the same network. However, if the only way to secure my LAN is to deny all guest wi-fi users (including the room thermostat) access to my LAN, then so be it and I'll just have to go over the internet even when I'm next door.
Can anybody give me an idea what to do please? Bear in mind I have a vague idea but I'm no network techie so an ssh tunnel into my router and unpackaging some bespoke code isn't going to work for me - I need to do this with the existing settings of the routers, or change the routers for ones that will let me do it.
Thanks in advance.
Main router and broadband modem is a Netgear DGND3700 which serves the house.
Attached via powerline networking are 2 DGN1000s with DHCP turned off and reserved addresses outside of the DGND3700 IP range (192.168.0.253 and 254). Each DGN1000 has its own distinct wifi SSID/password. I'm using 2 APs in the cottage as the walls are very thick. This allows any guest in the cottage internet access, but also access to anything on my LAN.
Now, I need to find a way to stop users of the cottage wi-fi accessing anything else on my home LAN (NAS, Mac, iPad, Printer etc...) and I have absolutely no idea how to do that. I've spent most of the day on google but I don't really know the terms I am googling for so have drawn a blank.
There is a complication though. There is a wireless room thermostat in the cottage which I need to access from my LAN in the house so that I can control/limit the heating settings available to the guests. I could do this over the internet from the house, but that seems a bit pointless when it is on the same network. However, if the only way to secure my LAN is to deny all guest wi-fi users (including the room thermostat) access to my LAN, then so be it and I'll just have to go over the internet even when I'm next door.
Can anybody give me an idea what to do please? Bear in mind I have a vague idea but I'm no network techie so an ssh tunnel into my router and unpackaging some bespoke code isn't going to work for me - I need to do this with the existing settings of the routers, or change the routers for ones that will let me do it.
Thanks in advance.