>>>>> "Dick" == Dick Steffens <[email protected]> writes:
Dick> On 07/25/2016 07:14 PM, Russell Senior wrote:
>> Now that you have that working, just to complicate things and ruin
>> everything, you could totally do this without the laptop by putting
>> the Buffalo (I understand it's running OpenWrt already) 2.4GHz wifi
>> interface into station mode and make it the wan interface.
Dick> I thought about that, but I want at least one laptop to be on the
Dick> house network. I assume the Buffalo's radio would be good for
Dick> either talking to the hotspot or serving local laptops, but [not]
Dick> both.
Actually, it ought to be able to do both, even with the same radio, but
both ap-mode and station-mode interfaces need to be on the same channel
(radios can only be tuned to once channel at a time). It might be
slightly less stable. Also, if the other laptop can do 5GHz instead of
2.4GHz, then that should work without any trouble at all.
I'm biased though. To me, access points with OpenWrt/LEDE[1] are like
swiss-army knives. I like to play with all the attachments.
[1] LEDE, in case anyone is wondering, is a recent fork/reboot of the
OpenWrt project, since early May, where most of the former OpenWrt
developers are devoting most of their energy. They are pretty much
synonymous, because it is mostly the same people, but they do have a
different name and might or might not re-merge in the next few
months.
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Russell Senior, President
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