For about the same price, and no learning curve, you can get a TP Link N150 Range extender and run it as a client. I've used it to create a wired port out of air and then an ALIX to secure and feed everyone else.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:55 AM, Chris Buechler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I run pfSense on a few ALIX boxes, usually as tunnel end and as access > > point. When I can plug one of these machines into any (wired) network, I > > have easy access to my home network through the private WLAN the ALIX > > provides. > > > > This works beautifully. > > > > I travel a lot and today hotels only provide WLAN access. Ethernet ports > in > > hotel rooms are relics of the past. > > > > I solved this problem by using a Mac to connect to the Hotel WLAN and > then > > select "Share my Intenet (WLAN) connection to Ethernet" in the "Sharing" > > control panel. When I then connect the ALIX WAN interface to my Mac > using a > > cable, things again work nicely, but I effectively block a Mac as router > > that I would rather carry around. > > > > My thought was "throw a second ALIX box at the problem and make that one > > connect as client to the hotel's WLAN", then plug the two ALIX's together > > with a short cable. > > > > I did try this, hacking the hotel's WLAN details into the WLAN interface > > configuration of the second ALIX (configured to use "Infrastructure" > mode, > > of course), but the WLAN interface always stays down, no matter what I > try. > > > > My hope was that the the hotel's captive portal mechanism could be > fooled to > > give access to my client ALIX from any client computer connected to AP > > provided by ALIX number 1, but as the client ALIX's WLAN is always down, > I > > didn't even make it to this point. > > > > > > Did anyone here successfully do this (and share some insights)? > > > > Definitely doable. I've done it in about every combination imaginable. > ALIX or similar hardware with a wifi card, a pfSense VM on a laptop > with a LTE card via USB passthrough, same for wifi USB. Ethernet > bridged to a VM on a laptop. Some ugly combinations of those where > multiple layers of NAT were necessary before the traffic left my > equipment, but was fine as a temporary hack. > > For connecting to captive portal networks, everything behind it will > look like one device as far as their network is concerned, as you're > NATing everything to the same source IP and MAC. > > How do you have the wireless interface configured for standard and > channel? What wireless card are you using? > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
