Use a spare wifi router as wireless receiver?

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escanthon

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Title says most of it. I don't have any proper wifi dongles, so I've been using my Nvidia shield tablet as a stand in for one.

I need a more stable connection tomorrow, so I was wondering if I could just use a whole 'nother router to accomplish the same thing. Naturally, it won't be wired into our network, it would be acting as a wireless receiver and be sending internet to my PC through Ethernet.
 
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My guess is that it won't work. This is a special feature that you see in so called "wireless extenders" or "repeaters". The actual term you want to look for is "clinet-bridge". This is a very special form of bridging. Most router that have a bridge option just make the device into a AP which is the reverse of what you want.

Now if you have the correct router you can load third party firmware as mentioned above. Most third party firmware has the "client-bridge" option.
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gillhooley

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I believe you are talking about setting the Old router to Wireless Bridged mode.

Main router------>wireless signal<----old router--->ethernet cable<-----PC

it should just be a setting on the old router, and is simple to setup.
 
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Pooneil

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Some routers have this capability and some don't. Look in the router settings for a "Bridge Mode" or something similarly named. If the router doesn't have a bridge mode, it may be able to have new firmware installed on it like DD-WRT or Tomato WRT.
 
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bill001g

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My guess is that it won't work. This is a special feature that you see in so called "wireless extenders" or "repeaters". The actual term you want to look for is "clinet-bridge". This is a very special form of bridging. Most router that have a bridge option just make the device into a AP which is the reverse of what you want.

Now if you have the correct router you can load third party firmware as mentioned above. Most third party firmware has the "client-bridge" option.
 
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