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Wireless Access Points?
I work for a law firm and set up a Wireless Access Point (Linksys WAP54G) in our office so our laptop and several of the partners' laptops they bring in from home can connect to our network wirelessly.
Now, my boss wants vendors and other attorneys who visit our office to be able to access the interent wirelessly if they need to. Is that possible without setting up their computers to log onto our network domain? I ask because I brought my laptop in from home, which has never logged onto our domain. I did have the WAP set up in WEP security mode using a passphrase generated key PLUS MAC address filtering. I removed the MAC address filtering and tried to connect my laptop using one several of the generated keys. It seemed to work, but I got no signal indicator and Internet Explorer would not connect. I also tried using no security mode (open wireless network) and it still didn't work.
I'm guessing that you cannot do what they want to do using a WAP. In that case, would I be better off using a run of the mill wireless router like I have at home and connecting it directly to the cable modem?
Thanks in advance!
3 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Is there a proxy setting you didn't set that is necessary to get out on the internet? I don't think you have to join the domain if you set your proxy correctly.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Being on the domain has nothing to do with associating with a WAP and getting internet access. I mean it can but not unless you design it this way. WEP sucks anyway and you shouldn't use it. The WAP54G supports Radius and WPA wich is much better. Regardless once you associate with the WAP and get IP information (assuming that information is correct ) you should be able to access internet. Now if you use a Proxy server for internet or if you have a network access quarantine or use 802.1x that may be a different story. But bottom line is you should have no problems
- Anonymous1 decade ago
1) XP Home and Vista Home can't connect to a domain.
2) In order for them to connect to the internet they'd have to connect to the domain, because that's where your internet connection is.
3) Easiest solution (only one, evidently, since you don't know the other ones, and it'll take you many months to learn to administer them): Buy another connection from your provider. Connect a 2 (or more) port switch to your external internet connection. Connect your current internal internet connection to one port of the switch. Connect a wireless router to the other port of the switch. Use THAT wireless signal for your guests - no WEP or WPA security, no MAC-address filtering.
If you connect a wireless router to the modem, you're opening your entire network (client information, case information, etc.) to the world. It's definitely both unethical and dangerous and it may even be illegal.
