How to temporarily disconnect WiFi access in the building?
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 3:48 pm
We broadcast our stake conference and other meetings to another unit building about 90 miles from the stake center in order to reduce driving for those in the distant corners of our stake here in Iowa. During our broadcasts, we need all the bandwidth we can get to transmit a quality signal. Our upload speed in the stake center is only 750 Kbps, so we typically disable wifi communications during the broadcast to that we don't have 1000 smartphones and tablets competing for the broadband. To do this, our stake center firewall has 3 antennas that you can disconnect and then we disconnect the two remote wifi antennas as well. We basically make it impossible to get a wifi signal, and the broadcasting computer communications are all thru ethernet directly connected to the firewall.
OK - now for my question. The location that receives the broadcast also has bandwidth issues, and we would like to disable wifi there as well. They have a newer firewall that has internal antennas (no external antennas) that we cannot access to turn off the wifi. Can anyone help us figure out how to allow ethernet data transfer but not wifi transfer with that firewall?
Thanks!
Keith
OK - now for my question. The location that receives the broadcast also has bandwidth issues, and we would like to disable wifi there as well. They have a newer firewall that has internal antennas (no external antennas) that we cannot access to turn off the wifi. Can anyone help us figure out how to allow ethernet data transfer but not wifi transfer with that firewall?
Thanks!
Keith