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Hello,

I am looking for suggestions from anyone willing to share their experience
of setting up a secure public wireless scenario; i.e., a library or coffee
shop or a similar type location, where no user authentication is required to
get to the Internet, but where the computer that is hard-connected to the
wireless router is totally secure from the wireless users.

I'm told by the folks at Linksys that the WRV200 supports VLAN, and that
VLAN ought to accomodate this arrangement. But is this enough? Sure, I'll
go out and buy the thing to check it out hands-on, but I'm also interested
in hearing any of your stories.

Thanks, again,

smackedass

VLAN is not applicable to your configuration. The simplest way to secure the wired PC is to use a good firewall e.g. ZoneAlarm and turn off file sharing. The guest account should be turned off, which I think it is by default.

smackedass wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for suggestions from anyone willing to share their experience
> of setting up a secure public wireless scenario; i.e., a library or coffee
> shop or a similar type location, where no user authentication is required to
> get to the Internet, but where the computer that is hard-connected to the
> wireless router is totally secure from the wireless users.
>
> I'm told by the folks at Linksys that the WRV200 supports VLAN, and that
> VLAN ought to accomodate this arrangement. But is this enough? Sure, I'll
> go out and buy the thing to check it out hands-on, but I'm also interested
> in hearing any of your stories.
>
> Thanks, again,
>
> smackedass

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