On 05/23/2016 01:09 PM, Darth Borehd wrote:
I am staying in a hotel with family.
We have the following devices:
Laptop running Linux Mint Mate 17.3
Chromecast
iPhone 4
Dell 7 Android tablet (Wi-Fi only)
We want to be able to stream Netflix and Hulu from one of the mobile
devices to the big TV in the room using Chromecast and one of the mobile
devices without tying up the laptop. (The laptop frequently has to be
used for work while others are watching the movie.)
The problem is that the hotel's wi-fi is setup for AP isolation.
Devices on the wi-fi can't talk to each other.
Add a USB wifi, then put everything but the laptop on the local wifi.
Although I think you are likely to run into serious issues with
quality/bandwidth. Multiple devices streaming at once is likely to run
into a serious bottleneck.
Using a laptop as a wifi router shouldn't impact it's use for normal
desktop type apps at all. It will use a bit more battery/cpu, but not a
particularly noticeable amount unless you are trying to sleep the laptop.
I heard of a windows software called Connectify that lets you re-share
your wi-fi connection over the same adapter. Unfortunately, I was not
able to get it to run on Wine.
Ya, that's very unlikely. Not sure that's even standard functionality
for most wifi adapters, might well require a non-standard driver for
your laptops chipset. I've never setup a linux wifi adapters to be on
two wireless networks at once.
Googling found some articles on setting up the laptop as a wi-fi hotspot
but they all assume you have two adapters (like ethernet to wi-fi).
Ah, that's tricky
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