Multiple IDs and Multiple passwords for single Wireless i.e Wifi Network

Question

I have a wireless WiFi at a paying guest accommodation, and have atleast 50 people. I need to connect multiple users with their own Id and their passwords for the same router for internet access. To do this what should I do? Can use the same wifi router? should I look for something different? Do i need a new type of setup? Please help.

Solution

This sounds like answering some of your questions:

https://serverfault.com/questions/192905/whats-the-maximum-number-of-wifi-connections-for-a-single-wifi-router

so, basically: probably you can forget 50 connections to one single AP. Since Wifi Router are so cheap you probably want to setup some more of them.

As for the authentication part, you could use a captive portal (aka Hotspot) as described here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/wireless.hotspot

cheers, t.

Comments

[Scott Chamberlain]

I gave a answer that covers this fairly well at the question for Providing passwords to multiple users on a wi-fi network