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From: John Navas on 11 Jun 2010 12:26
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:51:35 -0500, in
<032316p6u505vchd70qca7aqqfnu44s1i9(a)4ax.com>, Char Jackson
<none(a)none.invalid> wrote:

>On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:58:55 -0400, "jeepers" <jeepers(a)creepers.com>
>wrote:
>
>>OK. Maybe 2 channels aren't needed but desired just the same to reduce
>>congestion on each frequency. Still.... how would a single router be
>>configured to handle 2 networks and 2 SSIDs on one channel?
>
>Check out dd-wrt (www.dd-wrt.com) for an example of 3rd party firmware
>that provides that feature.

I've been unable to get it set up to work with anything more secure than
WEP, which I personally consider useless.

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From: Bob on 11 Jun 2010 13:09
On 11/06/2010 17:25, John Navas wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:33:03 +0100, in
> <oaOdnZ83y4Stb5DRnZ2dnUVZ7v2dnZ2d(a)bt.com>, Bob<bob(a)invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>> On 08/06/2010 03:03, jeepers wrote:
>>> Is there a 3rd party software to configure a standard home router to act as
>>> a Wireless Access Point for two different networks and two different SSIDs?
>>>
>> Since you didn't specify a router it is impossible to say whether 3rd
>> party firmware will work or not on your unknown router.
>> There was a tutorial on wi-fiplanet that used DD-WRT to create "multiple
>> SSID networks"
>> <http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/10724_3714521_2> this
>> was from 2007.
>> There is also this from DD-WRT:-
>> <http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Multiple_WLANs>
>> note from this that different broadcom based routers have different
>> capabilities when trying to run multiple WANs.
>
> I've been unable to get it set up to work with anything more secure than
> WEP, which I personally consider useless.
>
While it is a couple of years old did you try "rjmcinty's" setup?

<http://ftp.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22412&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60>
From: bod43 on 11 Jun 2010 14:55
On 10 June, 22:58, "jeepers" <jeep...(a)creepers.com> wrote:
> OK.  Maybe 2 channels aren't needed but desired just the same to reduce
> congestion on each frequency.  Still.... how would a single router be
> configured to handle 2 networks and 2 SSIDs on one channel?
>
> alexd wrote:
> > On 08/06/10 03:03, jeepers wrote:
> >> Is there a 3rd party software to configure a standard home router to
> >> act as a Wireless Access Point for two different networks and two
> >> different SSIDs?
>
> > If you can drop the 'two channels' requirement it's easy enough. If it
> > has to be two channels then just using two APs would probably be
> > cheaper.

I'll post a Cisco config if you wish. It will take a few
minutes to sanitise and organise for presentation so
I wont do it unless someone asks.

It's a bit muddled as it stands so maybe this is the
incentive needed to tidy it up:)
From: John Navas on 11 Jun 2010 16:15
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:09:23 +0100, in
<SbGdnT_URdhf8I_RnZ2dnUVZ7qidnZ2d(a)bt.com>, Bob <bob(a)invalid.invalid>
wrote:

>On 11/06/2010 17:25, John Navas wrote:
>> On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:33:03 +0100, in
>> <oaOdnZ83y4Stb5DRnZ2dnUVZ7v2dnZ2d(a)bt.com>, Bob<bob(a)invalid.invalid>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/06/2010 03:03, jeepers wrote:
>>>> Is there a 3rd party software to configure a standard home router to act as
>>>> a Wireless Access Point for two different networks and two different SSIDs?
>>>>
>>> Since you didn't specify a router it is impossible to say whether 3rd
>>> party firmware will work or not on your unknown router.
>>> There was a tutorial on wi-fiplanet that used DD-WRT to create "multiple
>>> SSID networks"
>>> <http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/10724_3714521_2> this
>>> was from 2007.
>>> There is also this from DD-WRT:-
>>> <http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Multiple_WLANs>
>>> note from this that different broadcom based routers have different
>>> capabilities when trying to run multiple WANs.
>>
>> I've been unable to get it set up to work with anything more secure than
>> WEP, which I personally consider useless.
>>
>While it is a couple of years old did you try "rjmcinty's" setup?
>
><http://ftp.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22412&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60>

Yep. And filed a bug that continues to languish.

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From: alexd on 11 Jun 2010 16:47
On 11/06/10 17:26, John Navas wrote:

> I've been unable to get it set up to work with anything more secure than
> WEP, which I personally consider useless.

Was it really necessary to post that twice?

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