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Here's my situation. I have two adjacent fitness studios. I have Comcast Business Class internet in the first studio, and the Comcast device provides 300 mbs speeds, plus 2.4 and 5 GHz WiFi. The WiFi...
What I'd do? Stop using consumer gear in a business environment. Its a good recipe to get your business in trouble if someone is on the same network you're running your business transactions through and gets all your clients data/financials.
1. run a hardwired connection between Studio #1 and Studio #2. This is going to be a smart investment.
2. pick up a business-grade setup. either going insight managed or Orbi pro.
You'd switch the xfinity router into modem-only mode and connect the Orbi (probably the easiest method for you) to it. The Orbi pro's have the option of vlan/guest networks. You'd have the primary router in studio #1 and a satellite in business #2. The wired backhaul is the best option, but they do function off a wireless backhaul if you can't hardwire it in.
That option keeps your guests off the primary network on which you're running business devices. Setup the guest on a different network isolated from the primary network.
How do I create, configure, and assign VLANs on my Orbi Pro WiFi 6? - NETGEAR Support
While it's a bit more of a buy-in cost, the separation is worth the investment versus getting your business compromised by someone on the same network.
I'm open to suggestions. To be honest, I didn't notice the ethernet ports were only 10/100 when I bought it, assuming (incorrectly) that nobody did anything slower than GigE anymore...
DoBetter wrote:
To be honest, I didn't notice the ethernet ports were only 10/100 when I bought it, assuming (incorrectly) that nobody did anything slower than GigE anymore...
To me, that is a perfectly legitimate assumption. Heaven only knows how that thing escaped.