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Simultaneous AP and Client Mode Wi-Fi on Raspberry Pi Zero W

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Re: Simultaneous AP and Client Mode Wi-Fi on Raspberry Pi Zero W

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I travel with a little $12 wireless access point for this purpose. Which is actually cheaper than you can get a pi zero w setup with PSU anyway.

Can you explain more?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal#Circumvention_o...

In case anyone wants to know more.

Re: Simultaneous AP and Client Mode Wi-Fi on Raspberry Pi Zero W

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post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I travel with a little $12 wireless access point for this purpose. Which is actually cheaper than you can get a pi zero w setup with PSU anyway.

Can you explain more?

You can search for "travel router". These things are built exactly for this. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=travel+router

They usually have an interface so that when you get to a hotel, you can either plug them into the hardline or they will let you connect and then select the hotel's wifi and enter the password.

The great thing is that all your devices will already have your travel router wifi info saved. So when I go to a hotel and fire it up and connect, all our phones, ipads, Roku, even an Amazon echo we sometimes take will will all connect right up.

Sometimes I even luck out and the lan cable going into the TV will be unmetered. One hotel I was getting 100mbps up/down all week for free.

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