Guest router account

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Hi there folks,

I have a daughter and her friends are starting to get into "internet stuff".

I had one of her friends ask me for the wi-fi password and I told her she couldn't get it.

SO it got me thinking about how I could give them internet access without giving out my router password to everyone, I noticed on my TP-Link router that I can use a guest account...I was wondering how safe this is and is it worth turning on for her and her friends?

Any advice is greatly appreciated

 

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Hello,

I know you can enable Parental Controls on the router. I'm not sure the setting applies for Guest Accounts though. Normally you have to enter the MAC address of the child's PC.

What router do you have?

 

I have a TP-LINK ADSL Modem router

 

Do you know what the model number is?

 

I have a TP-Link router just enable the Guest Wifi Account give it a different SSID and password from the Main Wifi account and then you can give them these details

Also means you can disable the guest wifi when not required or change the password without it affecting all the other kit you have on the main wifi connection

 

Thanks for the replies guys, I did what majorisin suggested...we will see how that goes

 

I would go one step further (and in fact did when we were fostering) and that's to use a different IP address range so that they have no chance of accessing any of my data, you probably also want to look for a router that limits the bandwidth (unfortunately not something my VirginMedia box does )

 

Thank you