Can I rent an office with a special lock for my stuff?
Can I rent an office with a special lock for my stuff?
Hi there, I just moved into a small office room where I work from home for myself as a freelancer. It's quiet enough here that it's getting boring, so I want to try something new. Unfortunately, they don't have any business with me right now; I'm just paying the rent. The building is old and doesn't have wires running along the walls. So how do we get connected? I used a wifi expander to connect my TL-SG108E switch router, which has a LAN cable, so I can share internet access from one place with my own stuff like PCs and laptops. It's not the best setup but it works for me. However, I really want to keep my devices safe because people in that office might use their own wifi and accidentally get into mine. Of course, I need internet to stay connected. I tried looking online, watching videos on YouTube, and reading tutorials, but I think I have some mental blocks stopping me from learning networking properly. If you could take a gentle step by step explanation with simple words, my brain would understand it better. Thanks so much!
The easiest way is to swap out your SG108 switch for a regular WIFI router. Plug the cable from your bridge into the router's WAN port. The other sides treat that as "the internet." You'll get the same security you have at home. The only thing to watch out for is if the computer numbers on the LAN are the same ones on the WAN. Just change the number range so they aren't a match.
Okay! Yeah, that sounds super easy. I was thinking about VLANs though; those are mostly for splitting networks within my own house or office. Right? So no need to worry about them here. Let's try your idea. Should I set up a pool of IP addresses beforehand, or just create them right when I run into an IP conflict with the internet connection?
You could easily just change it if you feel safe doing so. It depends on your router though, but when you plug in the WAN port and get a message saying they match things won't work well. You can use one of those private ranges that most home routers don't even know about like 172.18.1.1 paired with a standard mask of 255.255.255.0.