Connecting a ZTE pocket wifi to a router for home wireless network internet

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I have a zte pocket wifi (mf 9745s) using sprint lte that I would ike to connect to my wireless router (Linksys e2500 v1) w firmware (dd-wrt.v24-21061_NEWD-2_K2.6_big-nv60k.bin/3936) to then send internet to multiple wireless devices and a hard wired connection to a audio receiver. How do I go about accomplishing this with my current setup? I'm only interested in about 35mbps down, nothing crazy speedwise and not spending much on additional hardware if possible. I can flash a router but pretty clueless w all the setting options.

I've set up very simple networks w broadband to modem to router but am a novice at best in this area and can't figure out the steps. I would greatly appreciate any expertise one would be willing to share.
 
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The easy option will be if the zte things support WDS. This is needed for a repeater to function correctly. It should be as simple as setting you dd-wrt box to be a repeater and filling in the parms. The main issue you sometime find is mobile broadband providers wither do not support WDS and/or they limit the number of devices that can connect so some very low number like 5.

Unfortunately if you can do it the easy way you are going to have to learn a bunch about dd-wrt features. What you can do is configure the router to use one of the wireless radios as a WAN port. Then you can use the other radio to provide WiFI and ethernet. The main issue with this is your have to pick what you use 2.4g and 5g radios for, they can not...
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The easy option will be if the zte things support WDS. This is needed for a repeater to function correctly. It should be as simple as setting you dd-wrt box to be a repeater and filling in the parms. The main issue you sometime find is mobile broadband providers wither do not support WDS and/or they limit the number of devices that can connect so some very low number like 5.

Unfortunately if you can do it the easy way you are going to have to learn a bunch about dd-wrt features. What you can do is configure the router to use one of the wireless radios as a WAN port. Then you can use the other radio to provide WiFI and ethernet. The main issue with this is your have to pick what you use 2.4g and 5g radios for, they can not be used for both wan and lan.

This second option get past the WDS restriction because the DD-WRT router appears to be a single end device and it hides all the other devices.
 
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Has anyone successfully done this. I have dd wrt on a linksys router. How do you use half for wan and other half for wifi. I need to make hotspot think there is only the router connected to it. For some reason I used a wifi access point and connected to internet port on router but automatically shuts off wifi on hotspot when I do this! Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
 
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