Hi William,
First Question, do you care about double NAT?
Scenario 1: Bridge (Single NAT from WIFI AP's upstream router).
* The 'box' joins a wireless AP, and all packets, including broadcasts,
DCHP, ARP, pass through transparently to the wired port on the 'box'.
Scenario 2: Double NAT
* The 'box' joins a wireless AP, get an address from the upstream router
and then NATs that, creating and managing a separate network for the
wired port. Internet Access would be still be
'normal', you would not get broadcast traffic, or addresses from the
upstream router.
Scenario 2 is a lot easier, and covers the majority of use cases.
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Over the last five years I've been using the TL-MR3020 as a swiss army
knife for old ball networking. I actually own several of them.
I did use it's stock firmware as a wireless bridge (Scenario 1), evening
doing a PXE network boot over it. Although that was 4 years ago.
OpenWRT works on it very well, and I've even gone through the pain of
bricking and recovering one.
https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3020
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=690&item_id=047186
You can still find some stock in Canada Computers.
On the TL-WR802N,
It's 'next model' name-sake of the venerable TL-WR702N*, minus the oh so
useful USB Host port... -_-;
It is completely different hardware though, not the same SoC and it
looks like the openwrt community is still getting their heads around it.
https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr802n
* TL-MR3020 is just a derivative of the TL-WR702N with hardware buttons,
and an extra PCB antenna, and larger flash chip.
So yeah, can't say anything about TL-WR802N other then it's half the
price of the TL-MR3020. But the TL-MR3020 has worked well for me in the
past.
On 08/11/2016 11:52 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
Anyone have this one?
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1046_365&item_id=087761
http://www.tplink.ca/en/products/details/TL-WR802N.html
If so, have you ever used its "Client Mode" and can you confirm that it
works?
I need small portable "wireless bridge", and the advertised "client
mode" is what I need. But, last TP-Link I bought was N750 dual-band
TL-WDR4300. It advertised "wireless bridge" and even their tech support
said so. But, both lied. Shocking!
I have Linksys WRT model with DD-WRT, and its client bridge works. But,
it's a bit bulky to carry around.
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