Yes, as I said I am a newbie. And I've seen various solutions to this
problem. Kurt, your solution seems to make more sense. As you said you can't
have everything.

But, when I saw people suggesting a non-routable protocol to access the
internet, I thought, what!

Laurence

"Kurt" <lorentzenkurt@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:120mlfihk1kp76e@corp.supernews.com...
>
> Well, you can't use a non-routable protocol on the router or it wouldn't
> be able to route it.
>
> Internet
> | Your LAN
> DSL Router - Wired Router <
> | (wired) WAP (Private)
> Cafe Router
> |
> WAP (Public)
>
> This setup will allow you complete separation between your private network
> and the cafe Wireless. You can't have it both ways - cafe customers can
> either access the network attached to the WAP or they can't - if you and
> they can both connect, you are connected to each other. SOHO routers will
> isolate because of the NAT (Network Address Translation) not provide
> "outside-in" connections to be made. You'll need to secure your private
> WAP so that cafe clients cannot connect. I'd actually suggest not having a
> WAP on the private LAN, but plug your laptop in for local LAN access, and
> use the cafe wireless just for Internet (being sure you have client for
> microsoft networks and file and print sharing diabled on the wireless).
>
> ...kurt
>
>
> "Laurence Baker" <luccombelad-newsgroups@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:due28j$q9l$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
>> Someone asked a question previously on a newsgroup which roughly went
>> like this.
>>
>> I have a Cafe and I want to provide broadband access for my customers via
>> my wireless ADSL router. I also have a normal ethernet router through
>> which I run 3 computers.
>>
>> I want to stop people accessing my network but still be able to use the
>> Internet via my wireless access point. Also, I need my 3 computers to be
>> able to access the Internet.
>>
>> The solution by general consenus was to use a non-routable protocol on
>> the wired router, and connect the wired router to the wireless ADSL
>> router thereby automatically creating two subnets.
>>
>> I'm a newbie to networking, but it through up a question that's been
>> bugging me for days. How do his 3 computers access the Internet if they
>> are using a non-routable protocol?
>>
>> Laurence
>>
>>
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