My question is about pubs, wifi, routers and stuff.
Local pub wants to offer WiFi to customers but there have been problems when lots of punters connecting to WiFi the poor old BT Business Hub doesn't cope with the number of connections. They are in the process of upgrading to BT Infinity, but the new hub apparently won't handle many connections either.
It occurred to me that if they had a wireless router in the bar area providing the WiFi, then connect that router to the BT Infinity router (using a LAN cable), then the "bar" router would (as routers do) 'concentrate' all the mobile phone connections into one connection to the BT hub.
Does this make sense? I'm talking about the bar router not having a modem, not being connected to fibre or ADSL, but having a WAN connection to one of the LAN ports on the BT hub with all internet traffic from the bar area routed through there.
Comments? Recommendations for a wireless router that would do this? I've looked on broadbandbuyer and they do have some wireless routers which don't have modems, so I assume that this is what they're designed for... provide a wireless access point and router capabilities.
This might then be extended by adding further local routers (e.g. to cover the outside area, to cover the guest rooms) to provide WiFi to those areas, with each one of these satellite routers connected to the BT hub over the LAN.
Local pub wants to offer WiFi to customers but there have been problems when lots of punters connecting to WiFi the poor old BT Business Hub doesn't cope with the number of connections. They are in the process of upgrading to BT Infinity, but the new hub apparently won't handle many connections either.
It occurred to me that if they had a wireless router in the bar area providing the WiFi, then connect that router to the BT Infinity router (using a LAN cable), then the "bar" router would (as routers do) 'concentrate' all the mobile phone connections into one connection to the BT hub.
Does this make sense? I'm talking about the bar router not having a modem, not being connected to fibre or ADSL, but having a WAN connection to one of the LAN ports on the BT hub with all internet traffic from the bar area routed through there.
Comments? Recommendations for a wireless router that would do this? I've looked on broadbandbuyer and they do have some wireless routers which don't have modems, so I assume that this is what they're designed for... provide a wireless access point and router capabilities.
This might then be extended by adding further local routers (e.g. to cover the outside area, to cover the guest rooms) to provide WiFi to those areas, with each one of these satellite routers connected to the BT hub over the LAN.
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