Can you have 2 passwords (kids and parents) on home internet?

[MossRoad]

I've never had issues with our children using the same WIFI as us. Any devices that are sensitive have their own protections. And anyone that ever came to the house and requested the WIFI password wouldn't be able to use our WIFI outside of the house more than a couple feet. It's a non-issue.

And as I mentioned before, you all use the same data pipe, so overall, one WIFI or two WIFI's, it's still the same amount of data over one connection.

That's why I was curious as to the OP's end goal.

 

[dragoneggs]

When we have guests, we give them the password to the 'guest' wifi. They cannot access my hard drive, and back up drives.

 

[MossRoad]

When we have guests, we give them the password to the 'guest' wifi. They cannot access my hard drive, and back up drives.

When we have guests, we give them our only WIFI password and they cannot access any of our network devices. That's all secure. The only thing they can access is our printer.

 

[dragoneggs]

When we have guests, we give them our only WIFI password and they cannot access any of our network devices. That's all secure. The only thing they can access is our printer.

Hmmm... if I give my guests 'my' password, they have access to all.

 

[two_bit_score]

Hmmm... if I give my guests 'my' password, they have access to all.

You should be able to give them access to the wi-fi without access to your computer. But.....I’m not smart enough to to tell you how to accomplish that. Here or at the farm we can do it. That is just how ours works.

 

[arkydog]

i have the internet wifi fix. i looked online after bmaverick said to have a guest wifi and you go into your wifi ip address on your router thru that way and set up guess that way. on your wifi hookup you will see your connection and the guest connection. guest can click on whatever you name their connection and use the internet their access. you will still have your old connection with you password. you can even put a password on their guest connection to keep unwanted users off the guest connection.

some routers even have in their settings of how fast upload and download speeds you want them to keep from using all yours. very cool!

it is up and running with guest access. both my wife and if have been on both. gotta admit that i was confused about router setting so i called my provider and they set it up for me saturday in about a half hour callback. now anytime my kids, grandkids and kids, adults now, can access the internet without accessing my sites or what I've googled.

thanks again for all your responses!!!!! many thanks to you bmaverick !!!!!!

 

[MossRoad]

Hmmm... if I give my guests 'my' password, they have access to all.

That's crazy. :confused2:

Our WIFI password is unique. It only lets people onto our WIFI so that they can access the internet with their own devices. There's no way they can get into any of our devices with just the WIFI password. The printer has it's own WIFI, and I made that the same as our internet WIFI password in case someone needs to print something.

 

[MossRoad]

Even with your WIFI password they couldn't access your sites (whatever that means) or see what you've googled.

 

[Oaktree]

Even with your WIFI password they couldn't access your sites (whatever that means) or see what you've googled.

I think he's referring to a NAS or any computers on the network with shared folders.

I get around this issue by simply not having wi-fi. Only things I have that could possibly need it are a laptop and the Roku, but both also have ethernet jacks and that's what I use. Don't have any "smart" gadgetry.
Maybe it makes me a lousy host, but if someone comes to visit they might actually have to interact with us vs. constantly checking their Facebook page or whatever else is so important.

 

[MossRoad]

I think he's referring to a NAS or any computers on the network with shared folders.

I get around this issue by simply not having wi-fi. Only things I have that could possibly need it are a laptop and the Roku, but both also have ethernet jacks and that's what I use. Don't have any "smart" gadgetry.
Maybe it makes me a lousy host, but if someone comes to visit they might actually have to interact with us vs. constantly checking their Facebook page or whatever else is so important.

A NAS device should have more security than a WIFI password.