subnet and wireless crowding in office space?

12 Feb 2009 3:57 PM

james

In an office space that is shared by many different (small) companies, is it
possible to use only one wireless router, yet give each company its own
subnet (so that windows network shared files, even publicly shared, don't
leak out of a company).

I don't see how this could be done using a typical home wireless router,
since there is only one DHCP server.

So the only solution is to have one wireless router per company (that wishes
to use wireless). This may lead to wireless overcrowding -- afterall there
are only 3 non overlapping channels.

What is the typical solution to this problem?

12 Feb 2009 7:43 PM

smlunatick

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On Feb 12, 3:57 pm, "james" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> In an office space that is shared by many different (small) companies, is it
> possible to use only one wireless router, yet give each company its own
> subnet (so that windows network shared files, even publicly shared, don't
> leak out of a company).
>
> I don't see how this could be done using a typical home wireless router,
> since there is only one DHCP server.
>
> So the only solution is to have one wireless router per company (that wishes
> to use wireless). This may lead to wireless overcrowding -- afterall there
> are only 3 non overlapping channels.
>
> What is the typical solution to this problem?

Most "low end" routers will not let you have more that the only subnet
mask that the router is set up for.

More advanced business grade routers might give you this but these are
expensive.