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Re: securely mixing WEP and WPA - two routers required? Assuming from your description, your Netgear has its own wifi setup. This should only be accessible by you and protected by WPA or WPA2.
The Access Point I noted ZyXEL NWA-3163 can host up to 8 virtual ESSIDS. Each having its own security settings etc.
These settings include:
a. type of security (WPA, none etc)
b. ability to block users within the same ESSID from seeing each other.
c. ability to block users from all LAN resources and just access the internet
With these three under your belt, there should be no problem to assign groups of users to the virtual ESSIDS without fear of LAN hacking.
(1) Those users on a WEP network solely for access to gaming purposes would be "LOCKED" into internet/gateway access only.
(2) Those users, that need WAN access, but do not need to see each other, and do not need LAN access can be a separate group using better WPA security.
(3) Those users that need access to your LAN (very much trusted) can be in a third group, again using WPA but obviusly a different key.
ETC.......
If unauthorized users accessed the wep portion, the only thing they would have access to is the internet.
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