I want to spread my WiFi all over the building. How do I do that?

  • object [Object]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 hours ago

    I have a great solution for that. Buy about 50 cheap phones, and set one in the middle of the building with wifi Hotspot enabled. Spread the rest of the phones around the building, and keep the closest ones connected to the center device. Turn wifi Hotspot on those devices, and they’ll retransmit the wifi from the center phone outwards. Do this until all phones are connected to other phones, and you’ve got a cheap and horrible mesh wifi solution with 50 SSIDs

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPM
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      4 hours ago

      You can’t do that as the WiFi doesn’t support being a client and a server at the same time.

      You would need to broadcast both a 2.4Ghz and a 5Ghz network with one being the backbone for the other devices.