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Question

Second (Private) Network Using Same Router?

Mar 9, 2016 6:09AM PST

Hiya Guys,

New here (first post) - and I'm not entirely sure what I'm asking... so hopefully someone will be able to help me out! Happy

If I have an existing home network (say 192.168.1.* - with my router at 192.168.1.1) is there any way to setup another, separate, network (say on 10.0.0.*) which cannot see the 192.168.1.* network, but yet can access the Internet via the Gateway Router at 192.168.1.1?

Is such a thing possible?! If so, what is it called, and how is it achieved?

Any information you can give would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Steve.

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I'm going with no.
Mar 9, 2016 9:40AM PST

If your router supported it you would have it done by now. Why not just make your shares to your own workgroup and not all on the LAN?

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Well depending on what router you have you can.
Mar 10, 2016 11:06AM PST

I have a ARRIS - SURFboard High-Speed Broadband Cable Modem and Wi-Fi Router. This router is dual band so it will allo me to configure a Wireless network @ 2.4 ghz and one at 5.0 GHZ. It also allows a guest wireless network.


So when I look at Wireless networks available it shows along with a few neighbors networks

1. Motorola2.4
2. Motorola5G
3 Guest.

I set all these up when I type 192.168.1.1 into a browser and it will run the software in the router and configure and set security for each network.

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Another thing
Mar 10, 2016 11:08AM PST

These are all separate networks which you can signon to and separate from each other. You have to set your own security to control who can each access one.