[HLUG] Guest wifi login system

[david winterton]

At the real risk of being well of my depth, do you want your guests to have
a limited bandwidth or just be booted out of the way when you want to use
the internet?.
If the latter, then surely you can set your guest accounts to have a lower
(much lower 😊 ) priority without touching the router, or I am being stupid?

I failed to find the file to edit on my system ( pos. because I do not have
a guest account ) but the following link might be good background reading.

http://apcmag.com/how-to-build-a-linux-router.htm/

all the best

On 4 October 2015 at 16:35, Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have a netgear at work that has a guest network.
>
> Best other option would be to use an open router distrobsycg as open wrt
> for your router to give it more capabilities such as a guest mode.
>
> Otherwise you could do this with a small Linux box or even a raspberry pi
> with a router distro.
>
> Julian
> On 4 Oct 2015 1:03 pm, <brightfield at runbox.com> wrote:
>
> > The Belkin I have came ready in stalled with that function if that helps
> > any?
> >
> > Smiles,
> > C
> >
> > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the EE network.
> >   Original Message
> > From: George DiceGeorge
> > Sent: Sunday, 4 October 2015 12:30
> > To: Herefordshire Linux and Open Source Users Group
> > Reply To: Herefordshire Linux and Open Source Users Group
> > Subject: [HLUG] Guest wifi login system
> >
> > I'd like a system in my house where guests login to the wifi
> > (and network cables and guest pcs)
> > with their email addresses
> > (like at mcdonalds)
> > so i have a way to limit them from using all my bandwidth etc,
> >
> > do i need extra hardware or can this be done with software and router
> > switches?
> >
> > [george]
> >
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