Hi all, looking for some guidance on getting wired networking upstairs to my pcs.

Currently I have my internet connection coming in downstairs. Without running cables upstairs is it possible to connect something to my existing wifi network and then break it out to to ethernet?

Any help much appreciated.

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 days ago

    If you’ve got a spare router laying around; you can probably flash DDWRT, OpenWRT or similar to it, then use the wifi on it as a client-bridge. Does exactly what you asked for: connects to wifi and bridges the lan ports to that connection.

    I used to do this at LAN parties almost 15 years ago. I know for sure DDWRT will do it.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Don’t bother with ddwrt since it is really behind the curve.

      OpenWRT is where its at but you need to proper hardware

    • Goun@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I’ve been failing at doing this for some weeks now.

      I’ve been using openwrt for years so I thought this was going to be super straightforwad, but it seems like I can’t just bridge the wlan and the lan after the wlan is setup as a client.

      Is there a guide of some sort for it?

      • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I’m not familiar with OpenWRTs setup unfortunately.

        DDWRT makes this super simple: select wifi mode ‘client bridge’, provide SSID+Auth. Lan is now bridged to wlan. No double NAT.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      3 days ago

      And you can most likely still create a VAP on it to act as WiFi extender.

      I’ve used one as a VPN client this way. Connect to WiFi network, connect to Mullvad using Wireguard, create virtual access point and it semi-practically worked.
      Semi, the WRT160NL couldn’t really handle it. Especially after adding a separate guest network with another VAP. Crashing like every 3 minutes. It can realistically only act as either a WiFi client or single AP.

      But that is device-dependent. This is an old trash.