Wifi as WAN
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What about 2 of the Travel routers, both broadcasting the same SSID?
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The Travel Router locks on the MAC Address, so that's not going to work for 2 phones.
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@anonymous said:
What about 2 of the Travel routers, both broadcasting the same SSID?
Seems like that would work.
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@anonymous said:
The Travel Router locks on the MAC Address, so that's not going to work for 2 phones.
Doh!
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One solution would be a Edge Router X, configured with 2 WAN's each connected to a Ethernet to WiFi bridge.
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Yes, that should work, but you are back to paying not just for a bridge, but for TWO bridges.
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This s project can work fairly easily, but will take setup. A hardware investment is required.
I will post something tomorrow.
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@JaredBusch said:
This s project can work fairly easily, but will take setup. A hardware investment is required.
I will post something tomorrow.
THANKS!
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But as @JaredBusch said, they will save so much per month that the expense to do this right might not be so bad.
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The hardware is no problem! We can spend whatever is needed to get the job done on a enterprise level
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Tomorrow because, well, see my post in the other thread regarding what I am doing right now.
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I am just always trying to be a cheap
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Probably good to invest a little bit here. If they are non-technical, this is going to be a bit of a big undertaking. You are going to want every piece of this to be as stable as possible as things breaking are likely to be very confusing and difficult for them to manage.
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So right now I am looking at getting (2) TP-LINK TL-WR702N connected to a Edge Router X and a Ubiquity AP.
Total cost would be about less then $200.
Does Ubiquity make a Ethernet to WiFi adapter?
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After more thought, I want something nicer then the TP-LINK TL-WR702N.
Any suggestions? Maybe something more enterprise grade?
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@anonymous said:
Does Ubiquity make a Ethernet to WiFi adapter?
Not that I have ever seen.
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Adding ddwrt to any router allows you to make it a client too so that give me lots of options
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Might be worth just using a trio of DD-WRT devices.
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This one has been gnawing on me, if you solve it please post about it. Doing it wireless instead of USB really throws a spanner in the works.
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@anonymous said:
Adding ddwrt to any router allows you to make it a client too so that give me lots of options
@scottalanmiller said:
Might be worth just using a trio of DD-WRT devices.
Basically this is what I was going to tell you to set up. Get 2 identical DD-WRT capable devices with built in WiFi. Convert both of them to be clients, one for each cellphone. These basically are now your two internet modems.
Now get a router of some type that you can put DD-WRT on and is capable of handling dual WAN connections. This is the part I need to look up.
For a higher quality router experience, you could easily go with an EdgeRouter X if they support Dual WAN (assume so?) and a UAP for the Wireless, but for the type of home user you are describing, I would attempt to use 3 identical DD-WRT routers if at all possible.
