I had problems integrating my home LAN with various hotspots in the past. I solved the problems with a wifi bridge.
Attached is a picture of the bridge; it's a VONETS VAP11G-300 WiFi Bridge. It plugs into the WAN port of an ordinary consumer wifi router, and is powered via USB, which my wifi router has a port for. I configure the Vonets device to connect via wifi to the hotspot, and the machines on my LAN connect to the wifi router via ethernet or wifi. I borrow the hotspots from my public library for a week at a time, so I generally have a different hotspot every week. The only device I need to reset every time is the Vonets bridge; all the machines on my LAN use the wifi router, not the Vonets bridge, so none of them ever need to be reconfigured. I found the device on Amazon; I just looked it up again, and the price is currently $26. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014SK2H6W On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 5:15 PM dan moylan <[email protected]> wrote: > > shankar viswanathan writes: > > I am not familiar with the Wifi access point that the > > T-Mobile service provides, but I'm taking a guess here. Did > > you set up these machines on a "guest" SSID network or some > > such setting on the AP? I have found that the default > > configuration in typical home routers for guest networks is > > to isolate clients from each other and only allow access to > > the WAN. This would explain the behavior you are seeing. > > it is indeed a wireless access point connecting to their > cell towers. don't really remember, but signing in as guest > is not something i would have done on purpose. the phone > app shows all the connections, and nowhere do i see "guest". > > btw, when i ping i see "destinantion host unreachable" > > ole dan > > j. daniel moylan > 84 harvard ave > brookline, ma 02446-6202 > 617-777-0207 (cel old ng) > 857-396-9950 (cel new) > [email protected] > www.moylan.us > [BLM] > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email [email protected] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
