SSID For Assisted Listening System

[dnitzel]

Hi,

We recently installed an assisted listening system in our church that uses a phone app to access the system.   We will need to add some access points to that space and my concern is if we just use our guest SSID, we would most likely have so many people on the guest network that we would  have to add more access points than we would actually need due to non-assisted listening device users accessing that network for other things.  The vendor suggested we create a new SSID specifically for the assisted listening devices.  Is there a way to restrict the users on the new SSID to just that app so other users are not taking up all the bandwidth and require us to have more access points than necessary or interfering with the assisted listening experience?  Any thoughts would be appreciated.  Thanks

[PhilipDAth]

You could make the default wireless firewall rule a "deny all", and then use a group policy to override this to "allow", then apply that override to just your assisted listening devices.

[BlakeRichardson]

Regardless of what SSID people are using if you get to many people on your guest network that is still going to affect your other SSID because capacity is shared amongst the entire access point irrespective of what SSID users are connected to. 

Now you could enable traffic shaping on the network and that might help to a degree. 

[dnitzel]

Thanks for your replies,   The vendor said the listening devices don't need internet access, they just all need to be on the same network, so if I create a separate VLAN with it's own SSID that doesn't allow internet access, does that sound like that might work?