Splitting Wifi network into two from 1 internet connection

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Fader187

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Currently Edimax device connects to BTHub3 wirelessly (cannot connect wired). Would like to be able to separate the Office wifi clients (on the BTHub3 Wifi) from seeing any of the Guest wifi clients (on the Edimax\'s different SSID) network shares etc and vice versa. The Edimax device is currently configured in Repeater or Extender mode. I was under the impression that I could set the DHCP to ON on the Edimax device (but on a totally different IP range 1.1.1.x) but it does not seem to allow me to do this. Am I able to separate these two wifi networks so that the devices cannot see each other across them but still be able to share the internet connection?

Diagram here http://1drv.ms/1mUjzUd
 
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Lets assume you could set the repeater device you have to run a different subnet..ie run in router mode. This would not separate the networks the guest users could still get to the office clients because they would all share the IP of the router which is in the main subnet. You would because of the nat prevent your office users from access the guest machines but I don't suspect that is what you want.

The only way to make this work it to have the BTHUB have a wireless guest network and then repeat that network rather than the main one. It mostly depends if the bthub has that feature or not.
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I want to say this is not possible. The extender only has the capability to broadcast a single SSID and therefor only one network can be broadcasted. You would need a second wireless router if you wanted to make available a second network to separate the office traffic from the guest clients. Hopefully someone will back me up here because I am not 100%. Anyhow, best of luck to ya - Sub
 
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bill001g

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Lets assume you could set the repeater device you have to run a different subnet..ie run in router mode. This would not separate the networks the guest users could still get to the office clients because they would all share the IP of the router which is in the main subnet. You would because of the nat prevent your office users from access the guest machines but I don't suspect that is what you want.

The only way to make this work it to have the BTHUB have a wireless guest network and then repeat that network rather than the main one. It mostly depends if the bthub has that feature or not.
 
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