Hi everyone.
I'm wanting to set up a network both WiFi & CAT5 in my humble house.
I used to have a Cable solution (Cable modem plugged into the WAN port on my base station) and it worked like a dream.
However, the area I'm now living in doesn't have Cable, so it's time to share my connection with up to 50 others (
) and use xDSL.
The trouble is, I want the Base station to take care of routing (etc) so all I need is a xDSL MODEM (only) that has a suitable WAN outlet that can plug into the WAN port on the Base Station.
The reason I ask is that all of the devices I can find are combined modem/router and loads are becoming WiFi-AP/Modem/Router. I don't want to have Airport doing loads of routing AND the DSL device doing it too (I know it will be minimum but more element that can go wrong!).
How do others do it? What's the best solution?
Thanking all replys in advance.!
NOTE: Can 2 SSID's be put on an Airport base station? (It's for another solution I have in mind for a bigger little projcet for 2 VLans, private network (home office) and shared network (Home only)
I'm wanting to set up a network both WiFi & CAT5 in my humble house.
I used to have a Cable solution (Cable modem plugged into the WAN port on my base station) and it worked like a dream.
However, the area I'm now living in doesn't have Cable, so it's time to share my connection with up to 50 others (
The trouble is, I want the Base station to take care of routing (etc) so all I need is a xDSL MODEM (only) that has a suitable WAN outlet that can plug into the WAN port on the Base Station.
The reason I ask is that all of the devices I can find are combined modem/router and loads are becoming WiFi-AP/Modem/Router. I don't want to have Airport doing loads of routing AND the DSL device doing it too (I know it will be minimum but more element that can go wrong!).
How do others do it? What's the best solution?
Thanking all replys in advance.!
NOTE: Can 2 SSID's be put on an Airport base station? (It's for another solution I have in mind for a bigger little projcet for 2 VLans, private network (home office) and shared network (Home only)