Questions tagged [access-point]
Use this tag if your question relates to connecting your pi to a wireless access point, or making your pi one.
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi as an access point - the easy way
I know how to do it the classic way as described for example by the official documentation at Wireless connectivity. But that needs many different components which must play together and each ...
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Access point as WiFi router/repeater, optional with bridge
I need a wireless access point that is bridged with the wired ethernet port and that is connected to another wifi internet router with a client connection as uplink. All devices connected to the RasPi ...
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Access point as WiFi router/repeater with additional WiFi-dongle
There are some tutorials to make an access point a WiFi repeater using only the on-board WiFi chip of a Raspberry Pi. But I want to use an additional USB/WiFi dongle as second interface for the up-...
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Switch between wifi client and access point without reboot
I want my Raspberry Pi to be used as access point or as client connected to my internet router but not both together. So I want to switch between these two modes with one simple command without ...
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raspberry pi as access point with captive portal
I recently got a raspberry pi. I have it set up as an access point in a standalone network (not connected to the internet). I can also serve a static website on this network. I've been trying to set ...
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How to bridge an access point with a remote network by Wireguard? (with the use of systemd-networkd)
Have been following a members' posts about using the Pi as a Wifi Repeater and/or Bridge and also bridging via openvpn. A member of this forum (Ingo) has provided awesome step-by-step instructions ...
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How to bridge an access point with a remote network by openvpn?
My access point spawns a wireless local area network. Now I want to connect it to my other private network over the internet with openvpn so it gets direct part of the remote network in a common ...
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How can I set my pi 3 up to be WiFi AND ethernet router simultaneously?
I want to use my Pi as a fully fledged wifi and ethernet router. I'll connect an external modem/phone with tethering to it and want to share that internet connection with all devices connected to the ...
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Automatically Create Hotspot if no Network is Available
I want to automatically create an access point, if there is no network found, so that I can connect to my Raspberry Pi everywhere.
If nobody is connected to the hotspot for a while it should search ...
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Raspberry Pi to configure automatically as an Access Point OR WiFi client
There are many guides for setting up a Raspberry Pi as an Access Point, and even some which allow switching between Access Point and WiFi client.
I wanted a setting which would work as a normal WiFi ...
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Swapping between wifi client and access point?
This question is an extension of the information on this post.
This question looks the same as this one but it is not. I am using systemd-networkd.
I successfully followed the instructions in the ...
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Setting up Raspberry Pi 4B to be a wifi access point
I want my Raspberry Pi 4B to create a wireless network that connects to my router, without using any external devices to assist the pi (ie. a secondary router or an antennae that would connect to the ...
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Android won't connect to RasPi access point
I have managed to turn my Raspberry Pi into an access point following these instructions:
Access point as WiFi router/repeater with additional WiFi-dongle
However, everything connects to the access ...
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Connecting the Pi to multiple WiFi networks simultaneously
I have completed the official guide on setting up a Raspberry Pi as an access point in a standalone network (NAT), and it works, but I can't join other networks.
I want my Raspberry Pi to act as an ...
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can not ping from remote host over raspberry pi router
Going through Setting up a Raspberry Pi as an access point in a standalone network (NAT) I set up Raspberry pi as access point as standalone NAT with out bridging. wireless host is connected but cant ...
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RPI Station+AP with ap0 bridged to eth0
I'm trying to setup the RPI3 with these two network features (using built-in hardware only):
Isolated network with Wifi Access Point and Ethernet. A) Sharing same domain "pi.lan". B) Sharing one DHCP ...
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Raspberry Pi as OpenVPN Access Point
I am trying to setup Raspberry Pi as VPN-WiFi access point connecting to AWS VPC. I followed Raspberry Pi as an access point
Here are the all steps I performed in sequence
Installed fresh full ...
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No internet on client device when connected to Raspberry Pi [closed]
I've been trying to set up RPi to act as both a wireless AP and wifi station simultaneously. I've got nothing but errors and bugs so far. I did however find this guide that creates a virtual AP and ...
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Restrict WiFi range of Pi 3b+
I want to restrict the wifi range of my Pi in order to only have a really small range of around one or two meters for my access point.
I'm not totally new, but I don't know any way to reach the goal ...
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Trying to setup wifi ap and managed client mode together : sub-system time out on ap0
I followed the instructions here: enter link description here with the aim of getting ap and managed client wifi running together. The wlan0 setup works perfectly. I could not see any attempt to ...
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Setting up an accesspoint on the raspberry pi 3 with debian stretch
I am having problems to set up an accesspoint on my raspberry 3.
The purpose is, that I want a MQTT server runnig on the pi and other devices should connect to the pi. I need no bridge to the ...
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hostapd problems while setting up Pi 4 as Access Point
First of all i want to say that i'm new to all of this, so please dont hate me if the answer to my problem seemed obvious to you.
I just tried to follow this tutorial to set up my Pi 4 as an Access ...
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Automated (Scripted) Configuration of Raspberry Pi Access Point
Are there any opensource scripts/repos that automate configuring a Raspberry Pi into a Wireless Access Point?
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Issue with some devices not connecting to Raspberry Pi set up as AP
I have set up my Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi 4) as an Access Point by following this article: Setting up a Raspberry Pi as an access point - the easy way and section: Setting up an access point with a ...
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RPI wifi repeater - slow internet speed
I configured my RPI as a wifi repeater (using hostapd and dnsmasq). When I download something to my pi I have a downstream up to 1.5 MB/s. On my device connected to the pi the downstream is only about ...
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Setting up a wifi access point using an external wifi adapter
Im trying to set up my RPi model 4 b 2Gb to act as an access point. Im using the built in chip in monitor mode using nexmon_csi library. The library is tested and working fine. When I plug in the new ...
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I'm successfully running a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B as a WiFi access point, but I cannot connect to the internet through the Pi itself?
Good day all!
I was following this method of turning my Raspberry Pi Model 3 into a WiFi access point:
"How to use your Raspberry Pi as a wireless access point"
...and it is now working ...
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Cannot ping my access point
I created an access point on my Raspberry PI (Raspbian) following Setting up a Raspberry Pi as an access point - the easy way the systemd-networkd way. Now I have to connect to my AP via another RPI ...
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hostapd doesent work anymore
I was running hostapd and it worked fine but i had to reinstall the os and copied the config but now it gives me some problems.
First of all hostapd was masked, then i unmasked it and tried to start ...
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Switch Raspberry Pi 3 between access point and non-access point
I used this tutorial to make my Raspberry 3 an access point. After following that, I can't connect to the internet—neither via Wi-Fi nor via cable.
With this tutorial when I see the DHCP status—it ...
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Access Point not working for Android phones
I have successfully created and access point to my local rapsberry pi 3 and I was able to connect the pi AP without internet with my iphone and when I open the browser and hit the raspberrypi.local it ...
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pi-gen + Access point as WiFi router/repeater with additional WiFi-dongle
We're using a forked version of pi-gen (https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen) to build custom RPi images. As part of the build, we're trying to set the RPi up as an Access point as WiFi router/...
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