On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:54:56AM -0800, Daniel Lemke wrote: > If you can get a spare Android phone with service to provide Internet to > the Pi, you can just cut the Pi out. Setup the phone in hotspot mode and > you won't need the Pi. You can leave the extra phone plugged in to USB > power. Leave it somewhere up high, like on top of a bookshelf. > > Caveat: a Pi with a gain antenna would have better range. Do some > wireless testing with the phone in hotspot mode first to determine if > you need the extra gain.
Right. But here, the pi is having multiple roles. It is a print server, it has an HDMI screen used as PoS (payment handling and some display stuff). The role of a router was added to it later. I have a dongle that provides ISP connection over USB as well as wifi. Here I am using it as a usb modem to pi and pi shares the connection with other devices. This dongle could have served as a router as well. But pi based router gives me a more self contained setup with flexible choice of internet connectivity device. And even if the device is taken away for a while (which sometimes happens) at least my intranet setup works fine. -- Mayuresh
