completely wireless router?

[bwanaaa]

is there such a thing? The idea would be to specify an ip that would be the wan port and then the device would be a dhcp server for a set of local lan ip numbers. For example, i might specify 192.168.0.1 as the wan ip and the tell it to have a gateway of 10.0.0.1 and serve ip numbers up to 10.0.0.254.

 

[PliotronX]

Interesting concept, sounds like a hotspot which our phones can do completely wirelessly but on battery power they dont last long. That's all I can think of bud.

 

[bwanaaa]

except this is only for wifi. The idea would be to pay for one internet connection in a hotel to share among friends. I guess I could get a usb wifi adapter , plug it in to my laptop and make that shareable?

 

[PliotronX]

Check this out man you may not have to buy anything.

 

[bwanaaa]

tnx pliotron.

 

[alkemyst]

Interesting concept, sounds like a hotspot which our phones can do completely wirelessly but on battery power they dont last long. That's all I can think of bud.

Cisco 819 routers can easily do cellular directly.

 

[PliotronX]

Cisco 819 routers can easily do cellular directly.

Oh yeah, but they require AC and he is dealing solely with WiFi (repeating hotel WiFi). I was thinking along the lines of battery powered, a laptop with that Virtual Router app fits the bill and is freeware

 

[paperwastage]

wouldn't a router running as an Wireless Client do the same job? (if you wanted a dedicated device to do this, instead of having to leave your laptop + Virtual Router app running)

EDIT: wait, not sure if router can act as wireless client AND broadcast a separate wireless network... hmmm, any pointers?

 

[VirtualLarry]

google "travel router"

 

[alkemyst]

Oh yeah, but they require AC and he is dealing solely with WiFi (repeating hotel WiFi). I was thinking along the lines of battery powered, a laptop with that Virtual Router app fits the bill and is freeware

I didn't see AC power was not excluded, I didn't see his second post about doing this in a hotel.

VirtualLarry has what he'd want for that....just a travel router.

 

[PliotronX]

wouldn't a router running as an Wireless Client do the same job? (if you wanted a dedicated device to do this, instead of having to leave your laptop + Virtual Router app running)

EDIT: wait, not sure if router can act as wireless client AND broadcast a separate wireless network... hmmm, any pointers?

Yup, open source firmware can act as a repeater easily (ddwrt is kind of a pita to set it up though).

Travel router, hah learn something new every minute in this world