Any way to be anonomous if sharing wifi with a neighbor?

[MandyRay_xo]

This thread has been quite helpful but I am still unsure if there is a way to keep my internet business my own. I will be sharing wifi with a neighbor starting in the next couple days and would like to figure out if there is a way to keep them from seeing what I am doing if we are sharing the same network.

I apologize if I missed the answer somewhere.. I have searched through quite a few different threads.
Please help!

 

[JerryBoBerry]

This thread has been quite helpful but I am still unsure if there is a way to keep my internet business my own. I will be sharing wifi with a neighbor starting in the next couple days and would like to figure out if there is a way to keep them from seeing what I am doing if we are sharing the same network.

I apologize if I missed the answer somewhere.. I have searched through quite a few different threads.
Please help!

Will you be sharing theirs, or will they be sharing yours?

If you're sharing theirs, make sure your wifi connection is set to public so it doesn't try to share files.

If you are in control of the connection you have many more options. The most secure would be to put them on an entirely different network. Simply buy another cheap router. Plug that into your existing router by ethernet cord. Then the new router sets up a new wifi signal that you can secure with a separate password and give to them.

If you don't already have a router and want to buy one, then there are also routers out there that have more than one network built in. Like the TP-Link 3500. It has dual band, 2.4GHz and 5GHz on a main network. But also both of those on a guest network that is completely separate. So it transmits and shows 4 wifi connections devices can try to connect to. You can assign different passwords to the guest and give those out as you wish. Nothing is shared between the two. No one on the guest can see anything going on with the main one. It also has an advantage in that you can do bandwidth limiting. Say you're buying 50mbps download speed and they've got kids who like gaming and invite friends over for lan parties and it's pissing you off when you're trying to get on cam. Quietly go into the guest network settings, change their limit to 20mbps or so. That's all they get. You get the lion's share. You can also set up lockout times, track individual mac address usage in the logs... it's rather nice.

I use this router currently with my neighbor's. I pay for 60mbps speed. Get two neighbor's to pay me $30 a month to share my wifi. Then I limit them to 20mbps cause they don't know the difference anyway. Effectively I make $5 a month on internet. :mrgreen:


http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?model=TL-WDR3500

 

[MandyRay_xo]

This thread has been quite helpful but I am still unsure if there is a way to keep my internet business my own. I will be sharing wifi with a neighbor starting in the next couple days and would like to figure out if there is a way to keep them from seeing what I am doing if we are sharing the same network.

I apologize if I missed the answer somewhere.. I have searched through quite a few different threads.
Please help!

Will you be sharing theirs, or will they be sharing yours?

If you're sharing theirs, make sure your wifi connection is set to public so it doesn't try to share files.

If you are in control of the connection you have many more options. The most secure would be to put them on an entirely different network. Simply buy another cheap router. Plug that into your existing router by ethernet cord. Then the new router sets up a new wifi signal that you can secure with a separate password and give to them.

If you don't already have a router and want to buy one, then there are also routers out there that have more than one network built in. Like the TP-Link 3500. It has dual band, 2.4GHz and 5GHz on a main network. But also both of those on a guest network that is completely separate. So it transmits and shows 4 wifi connections devices can try to connect to. You can assign different passwords to the guest and give those out as you wish. Nothing is shared between the two. No one on the guest can see anything going on with the main one. It also has an advantage in that you can do bandwidth limiting. Say you're buying 50mbps download speed and they've got kids who like gaming and invite friends over for lan parties and it's pissing you off when you're trying to get on cam. Quietly go into the guest network settings, change their limit to 20mbps or so. That's all they get. You get the lion's share. You can also set up lockout times, track individual mac address usage in the logs... it's rather nice.

I use this router currently with my neighbor's. I pay for 60mbps speed. Get two neighbor's to pay me $30 a month to share my wifi. Then I limit them to 20mbps cause they don't know the difference anyway. Effectively I make $5 a month on internet. :mrgreen:


http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?model=TL-WDR3500

Thank you for all of that info! I will be piggybacking on theirs so I will be using it in the public setting for now. I will look into getting my own in the future. Thank you again for setting me straight your posts are VERY helpful!

Best,