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In my company's building we currently have one WiFi network supported by many routers spread throughout the building.

I need to set up 4 Wifi cameras in our building but they cannot use the same SSID.

I also don't currently have the ability to set up an entirely new network.

Is there a way I can make another SSID that represents the same network? Or somehow an SSID that points to the existing network or SSID?

This article helped me along a bit. https://superuser.com/questions/373175/two-ssids-on-one-router

And if a solution like this would be the way to go, how would you set that up? Would you have to go to each router and create a new common SSID on each one? Or would there be one "main" router that you create the new SSID on and all the others somehow use it?

::Note that some routers in the building are different models than others but let's assume they all have the capability to have two SSID's as mentioned in the article above.

Casey Schneider
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I guess your cameras are acting as a wireless client. You said you need to connect them through a different SSID. But if you only have one SSID on your network, you can't do it. If you can reconfigure your routers to have more than one SSID you can connect the cameras to that new SSID but unless you do another level of separation, then the network is going to be the same. So maybe your routers have the feature of separate SSID for different interfaces and maybe you can do VLAN configuration on each interface. After that, if your network (switches) support that, you can set up a "different" network for the cameras using the same routers and wired network.

That is not the best scenario of course... a malicious user who know that, could be inside your "camera network" using the designed vlan on the same physical network.

OscarAkaElvis
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