My friend has recently taken ownership of a small hotel and during the
refurb he has had what appears to me some cowyboys fitting out internet
access for hotel guests. They have installed a Netgearrouter on the ground
floor in the reception and put a network switch next to it. Then on each of
the 6 floors have installed a Netgear WG102 Wireless Access point hardwired
back to the network switch.(personally I don think it needed an access
point on every floor!) Nothing was configured and it didnt work at all. I
did all that today, but have some questions as i am no expert in this:-
a) The network now has 5 access points all open to the whole world to
connect to and use, what is the best way to secure the network for free use
by hotel guests only.
b) The main hotel PC which houses all the financial data and booking info
is on the same network but hardwired into the router instead of wireless.
How can I ensure this single PC is protected from anyone accessing it who
is using the network. I can see people in there hotel rooms bored and just
spending all evening hacking the hotels main PC!! How do I stop this?
Should it go on a separate broadband connection to the rest of the network?
It is a standard Dell PC with all the usual Norton firewall and antivirus
etc etc.
