Help picking a router for a church

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mgtsimple

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I need a router for a church that can do the following things

Needs to have accounts that can print to their copier but does not have full administrator rights.
They want their IT person to be the only person with administrator rights. In the past they have had people change settings with out telling anybody.

Needs guest accounts
The router that they have now needs a web browser to access their guest accounts and some devices like the old kindle cannot log onto their guest account.

Their current router is Cisco Linksys E2000.

any suggestions will be greatly appreciated
 
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bill001g

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The router you have has the basic feature you need already. It has the ability to run a guest account but I suspect that is not what you are talking about. The guest account is a single user and if you know the password you have access there is no web involved.

To have each users have their own guest accounts you will need a server of some kind. If you already have this function then you need to look at how the server does this already.

The normal solution for this is a form of firewall that requires the users to authenticate via a web page the first time and then they have full access. Things that do no support web browsers have issues and you need to make exceptions manually. How exactly you do this depends on the software.

This sounds like what you are running already but it is not the router doing this function it is another device likely a pc of some kind. This is normally marketed as a hotspot software. Most you must pay for but a couple are free. The simple to use ones unfortunately are not free.

The copier would likely have to be configured in the copier itself other wise you would need some server placed in front of it to control access.
 
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mgtsimple

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Sorry I did not specify the guest accounts that they have works great for them except you cannot print from them. And they want the ability for their guest to print with out giving them full access to the network. I'm thinking about daisychaining another router to make a subnet but I need to do more research. Probably be asking more questions. Because I'm not smarter than the average bear and I'm the IT.


 
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