On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > I'd like to shop for such a device, but I don't know what it's called. > > I think it's called a "wireless bridge". > > Any device with a wifi card and (at least) an ethernet port can do that. > So "any" wifi router will do the trick, as long as you can get it to run > a firmware that's not hopelessly restricted. > > I'd recommend you look at the routers supported by OpenWRT.
+1 for OpenWRT supported routers supported devices are listed here https://openwrt.org/toh/start If all you want is a wireless bridge you can probably get by with a woefully underpowered router. Put the wan and lan ports on vlan 1 so there's no router or firewall involved and disable dns, dhcp, etc. so it's just ethernet <=> wifi I've got a pair of TP-Link Archer C7s that are now out of production but cost about $55 when new that do a great job with everything on vlan 1. > Of course, if you can do it with cables (ethernet/powerline/younameit) > it's probably going to work better, but I guess you know that already. +1 again - cables are better. Even with a house you're most probably going to get some interference from the houses around you :( Regards, Lee
