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Wifi to ethernet (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all, looking for some guidance on getting wired networking upstairs to my pcs.

Currently I have my internet connection coming in downstairs. Without running cables upstairs is it possible to connect something to my existing wifi network and then break it out to to ethernet?

Any help much appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've got a spare router lying around. I'll give this a try.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Make sure to use a WDS bridge if supported, rather than some workaround DD-WRT offers, or putting everything behind yet another NAT and separate network.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

WDS is what DDWRT uses for wifi client bridging. (it's mentioned on the first page of the link i provided)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except client bridge which is a sort of a workaround: https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Client_Bridge

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Ah, I see. It's been a long time since I dove into this....

OP will probably want to use plain Client Mode then. Same thing, but a bit more stable and with an extra NAT.

Not really a big deal unless you need clients on the primary network to reach the services on secondary network. Then you've just gotta be aware of the extra NAT and the port forwarding required.