with ethernet cable i don't see the point of this, a setup like this would benefit most with a setup of connected with wifi and having a wifi adapter in the usb port to send a wifi connection point from, either as a repeater or as an acces point that is connected through wifi it self. with ethernet cable you might as well just use an old router for this purpose.
Great tutorial. You left out one command in the Code Snippets. Under "sudo nano /etc/sysctl.d/routed-ap.conf" The line "net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" is missing.
Didn't get one point. Where is the SSID whose Wifi range has to be extended configured ? I followed the steps as is and went ahead to setup an Access Point with a different name and password from the original SSID. The access point was configured and visible, however no internet connection was obtained
The "WiFi Extender" part of the title threw me off a bit too. It should say wifi range booster. The ethernet cable is to connect the Raspberry Pi to the router and the R-pi becomes the wireless access point for the router. There are other tutorials on how to make it a true wireless extender/repeater.
Followed the setup process multiple times, I got everything right, however upon connecting to the network, I get no signal, any ideas on how to fix this?
Hi, I have tried to get this working multiple times but the network never shows up after I reboot my raspberry pi 3. I have followed along and done everything. Anyone have any idea why this might be?
Great video. But I have a few questions. 1) Does the Access point work better depending on the pi model? 3B+ vs Pi4? 2.) Does the amount of memory really make the access point work better? Like on a Pi4 does a 2 gig model work better than a 4 or 8 gig Model? Regardless of the OS (32bit vs 64bit). This is considering the fact that nothing but the Access point is running. In other words there are no other software processes running on the Pi except for the occasional updates.
Hi. first of all, thanks! how about instead of making eth0 connecting to my router i want it to be the wla0 that connect to my AP and my wlan1(usb dongle tl-wn722n) as my access point? this way i can move my rpi3 around and not being bound on how long my Ethernet cable.
Finished on my Raspberry Pi zero wifi with a USB wifi dongle. It works but painfully slow., changing a gigabit wifi to a 3mb/0.2mb wifi. I guess the pi zero is struggling to do the job. Good video though, staightforward and easy to follow.
A really good video to be honest. But I have a question. When I connect to it, it says that I don't have internet. And I don't have internet. Any ideas?
This was a very handy tutorial and I was able to get a WiFi hotspot transmitting from the Raspberry just fine- with one caveat. Using an RP4, I can only get a max connection speed of about 50Mpbs which- though convenient for a basic extender- really seems far below what 802.11ac should be capable of. My devices connect to my main 802.11 router at speeds up to 800Mbps. Any advice on how to speed up the connection to the RP4's WiFi hotspot?
Can this work wireless (no eathernet)by adding a USB wifi dongle? I have my raspberry in my car and connects to my home network but would like to connect my laptop to it while I'm not at home via a secondary network with the raspberry pi
AAARRRRGGGHHHH. This turns an RPi into a basic standard wireless AP, NOT AN EXTENDER HOTSPOT; it doesn't get the WiFi signal from a remote WiFI service, that would require an additional WiFi receiver/antenna.
Hi, great tutorial, I got this working on a Pi Zero W, using a USB Ethernet adapter (an old Apple one I had). It was a bit tricky because there is only one free USB port on the Zero, so couldn't connect a keyboard to it and have the USB Ethernet adapter plugged in. I used a combination of SSH and VNC to connect to the Pi to issue the commands and write the configuration files. It works great, but is no speed machine. But I only want it so I can stream music when I'm working in the backyard shed. Thanks.
If it needs to be directly connected to your router via cable, whats the point? As you are now limited to where you can put it in your house so you’re not going to be able to cover the spots that dont get signal.. you are essentially setting up a WAP in exactly the same place as your current one so I am struggling to see the advantage of doing this.
@@JoshAltosino You could use it with a yagi antenna to create a wifi rifle without modding your current router's antennas and messing up the beamforming.
Why not use a long ethernet cable to reach the areas of the house/office with weak wifi signal? A 50 foot Cat5 cable run to another part of the building where the Pi is now located would give that part of the building a nice strong wifi signal....that's what I did and it solved 100% of the problem of weak WiFi in the far end of the warehouse
I am having some trouble with this project. My pi 4 is "broadcasting" the wifi essid I set up and I can connect to it. However, my pi is saying there are no wireless interfaces to be found ( no internet). So I can connect to the network but there is no internet connection from the pi. How can I troubleshoot this? I feel like I entered every command in the video exactly excluding the routed ethernet option.
thanks for the share, im simply trying to send local files over hotspot from the pi to another pi who's logged in that first pi wifi network who happens to be a host of the hotspot "no internet connection just tapped in to that network like networking" can this be done by following this tutorial? im writing a code in java that uses sockets to talk to that ip given in this case the one with no internet, this is going to be local use but with no wires since i want to put it in a mobile platform and what i want to send from that hotspot to the other pi is camera feed from pi cam.
Can you point us to a good source or give a good source for the explanation of: (IT works great! But now understanding behind the scene is what I would like.) dhcpcd.conf sysctl.d/routed-ap.conf dnsmasq.conf hostapd.conf Would love to know for instance, if I stuffed a WIFI adapter in the USB3 pie holes, or 2.0 for that matter, if it would be possible to route through each one of the WIFI adapters first as a different network and secondly as a increased capacity router or AP wireless. So I was wondering which file controls the local access of the device itself hard cord. And then the one that tells it to assume certain ip-address and issue it. I understand, I THINK? the fact that the Ras pi is controlling from hard chord one way and then would like to cause it to pool from a internal wireless on the Ras pi internal WiFi to the dongles plugged into the USB slots and if they can be split up. Or if someone just wants to answer and put a dash by each and explain I would be in heaven... As it involves a current problem we all have, time to time, (a (cheap expanded WiFi to WiFi no hard chord) ) or point me to another video would appreciate much. I like the way you cut to the chase including the one command I missed unless your watching the video close... Tn-ks
Hi, Thanks for your tutorial it was very helpful! Is there a way to uninstall all this? I am very new to raspberry pi and I don't have much experience with it. Thanks a lot!
Does this mean I’ll need to connect to my router via the Ethernet for it to work? I don’t quite get the part about needing the Ethernet cable and what it does
The "WiFi Extender" part of the title threw me off a bit too. It should say wifi range booster. The ethernet cable is to connect the Raspberry Pi to the router and the R-pi becomes the wireless access point for the router. There are other tutorials on how to make it a true wireless extender/repeater.
@@markcohen3706 Of all the tutorials I've gone through, "balena" has the most up to date and detailed process. From what I saw, they have their own firm/software download links as well. I should also mention that I will be but have not yet made any of them. I was looking to make a small solar powered setup, and still plan to, but have too much paid work on my plate right now. www.balena.io/blog/turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-a-wi-fi-access-point-or-repeater/
@@JosiahFurrer Well then this is just perfect for extending my ethernet cable to a distance outside my house down to my barn which is more than what just laying an ethernet cable's range which is about 300'.
with ethernet cable i don't see the point of this, a setup like this would benefit most with a setup of connected with wifi and having a wifi adapter in the usb port to send a wifi connection point from, either as a repeater or as an acces point that is connected through wifi it self.
with ethernet cable you might as well just use an old router for this purpose.
Bro you totally saved me from 2 days of trying thank you ❤
Thank you very much for this. I've always struggled with creating bridges etc but you explained it very well and I understand it now.
Thanks,you saved my poor wi-fi connection in my bedroom
Thx, for the good Video.
It´s the first Tutorial for the Wifi Extender who really works xD
Great tutorial. You left out one command in the Code Snippets. Under "sudo nano /etc/sysctl.d/routed-ap.conf" The line "net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" is missing.
The only video that works for me, thanks a lot
i kinda want to build one in these hilarious mini gaming pc cases, it just had no use for it until now
Didn't get one point. Where is the SSID whose Wifi range has to be extended configured ?
I followed the steps as is and went ahead to setup an Access Point with a different name and password from the original SSID. The access point was configured and visible, however no internet connection was obtained
I have the same problem.
The "WiFi Extender" part of the title threw me off a bit too. It should say wifi range booster. The ethernet cable is to connect the Raspberry Pi to the router and the R-pi becomes the wireless access point for the router. There are other tutorials on how to make it a true wireless extender/repeater.
Followed the setup process multiple times, I got everything right, however upon connecting to the network, I get no signal, any ideas on how to fix this?
For me it just says optaining ip adress
Hi, I have tried to get this working multiple times but the network never shows up after I reboot my raspberry pi 3. I have followed along and done everything. Anyone have any idea why this might be?
same here
Great video. But I have a few questions. 1) Does the Access point work
better depending on the pi model? 3B+ vs Pi4? 2.) Does the amount of
memory really make the access point work better? Like on a Pi4 does a 2
gig model work better than a 4 or 8 gig Model? Regardless of the OS
(32bit vs 64bit). This is considering the fact that nothing but the Access
point is running. In other words there are no other software processes
running on the Pi except for the occasional updates.
Works great! I used a zero w with an external ethernet port (on the gpio) and it works like a charm! Thank you dude!
it connects but says internet may not be available and wont load anything. help
Me too
followed the instructions to a T and didn't work sadly. No idea what to do other than repeat all the steps and hope for a different outcome.
This worked amazingly well. Thank you.
God it worked, thanks, you made my day!!!
Hi. first of all, thanks! how about instead of making eth0 connecting to my router i want it to be the wla0 that connect to my AP and my wlan1(usb dongle tl-wn722n) as my access point? this way i can move my rpi3 around and not being bound on how long my Ethernet cable.
Hi, is this working for you. i tried with a dongle and i am unable to see the ssid on my other devices.
Finished on my Raspberry Pi zero wifi with a USB wifi dongle. It works but painfully slow., changing a gigabit wifi to a 3mb/0.2mb wifi. I guess the pi zero is struggling to do the job. Good video though, staightforward and easy to follow.
A really good video to be honest. But I have a question. When I connect to it, it says that I don't have internet. And I don't have internet. Any ideas?
Hanging on obtaining IP
then…
"IP Configuration Failure"
This was a very handy tutorial and I was able to get a WiFi hotspot transmitting from the Raspberry just fine- with one caveat. Using an RP4, I can only get a max connection speed of about 50Mpbs which- though convenient for a basic extender- really seems far below what 802.11ac should be capable of. My devices connect to my main 802.11 router at speeds up to 800Mbps. Any advice on how to speed up the connection to the RP4's WiFi hotspot?
And in Australia we have a max of 14Mbps on a good day. Damn.
try 802.11n
It worked ,by my pi3 doesn't detect any wifi anymore ! How can i revert this please or reactivate wifi ? Thanks !
much easier with raspAP
When i connect it says connected without internet
if i were to use a vpn with this would i theoretically beat mcdonald’s speed and data limit?
Probably
so hard to find a working tutorial for this and yours works for now until they change something in linux
look for raspAP
Great tutorial
Hi! Maybe you know. I don't want to create a new network with a raspberry. I want to catch a Wi-Fi signal and spread it further
Thank you so much
Can this work wireless (no eathernet)by adding a USB wifi dongle? I have my raspberry in my car and connects to my home network but would like to connect my laptop to it while I'm not at home via a secondary network with the raspberry pi
Hi, please add a return before `sudo nano /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf` :)
AAARRRRGGGHHHH. This turns an RPi into a basic standard wireless AP, NOT AN EXTENDER HOTSPOT; it doesn't get the WiFi signal from a remote WiFI service, that would require an additional WiFi receiver/antenna.
Hi, great tutorial, I got this working on a Pi Zero W, using a USB Ethernet adapter (an old Apple one I had). It was a bit tricky because there is only one free USB port on the Zero, so couldn't connect a keyboard to it and have the USB Ethernet adapter plugged in. I used a combination of SSH and VNC to connect to the Pi to issue the commands and write the configuration files. It works great, but is no speed machine. But I only want it so I can stream music when I'm working in the backyard shed.
Thanks.
If it needs to be directly connected to your router via cable, whats the point? As you are now limited to where you can put it in your house so you’re not going to be able to cover the spots that dont get signal.. you are essentially setting up a WAP in exactly the same place as your current one so I am struggling to see the advantage of doing this.
bro thats what im saying there is no point of making a wifi extender that is connected to the router
@@JoshAltosino You could use it with a yagi antenna to create a wifi rifle without modding your current router's antennas and messing up the beamforming.
Why not use a long ethernet cable to reach the areas of the house/office with weak wifi signal? A 50 foot Cat5 cable run to another part of the building where the Pi is now located would give that part of the building a nice strong wifi signal....that's what I did and it solved 100% of the problem of weak WiFi in the far end of the warehouse
Brilliant and tganks
I am having some trouble with this project. My pi 4 is "broadcasting" the wifi essid I set up and I can connect to it. However, my pi is saying there are no wireless interfaces to be found ( no internet). So I can connect to the network but there is no internet connection from the pi. How can I troubleshoot this? I feel like I entered every command in the video exactly excluding the routed ethernet option.
Hi. Great tutorial. I would like to use the Rasp pi as s VPN front end to a Roku. Would you have a source for how to do that? Thanks in advance.
The access point is visible and connected but has no acces to the internet.
How can I solve this?
thanks for the share, im simply trying to send local files over hotspot from the pi to another pi who's logged in that first pi wifi network who happens to be a host of the hotspot "no internet connection just tapped in to that network like networking"
can this be done by following this tutorial? im writing a code in java that uses sockets to talk to that ip given in this case the one with no internet, this is going to be local use but with no wires since i want to put it in a mobile platform and what i want to send from that hotspot to the other pi is camera feed from pi cam.
I tried this but the network wasn’t showing up from my other computer or my phone
it wouldn't connect for me.... and i doing something wrong?
I went through the setup twice ,and it seems to have install ok,exept when I do a reboot I cannot get wifi,whereas it was fine before,any ideas.
no internet connection. what sould i do
Can I add an USB Wifi antena to increase the range or speed? Do I need to do something else if I do it?
Didnt work one bit and screwed up my whole internet interface why make a tutorial if its false?
How do I transmit the internet from the wifi interface to the ethernet?
Can you share .jpg file of ur wallpaper of rpi
Pi B+ has an ethernet port, so it should be possible.
It's possible to run this and magigmirror at the same time in one rapberry? Is my very first project so is to much info to know
I want to install this on a Raspberry running Octoprint. Will it interfer or ruin my Octoprint interface? Thank you.
can you do this to orange pi 2?
Can you point us to a good source or give a good source for the explanation of:
(IT works great! But now understanding behind the scene is what I would like.)
dhcpcd.conf
sysctl.d/routed-ap.conf
dnsmasq.conf
hostapd.conf
Would love to know for instance, if I stuffed a WIFI adapter in the USB3 pie holes, or 2.0 for that matter, if it would be possible to route through each one of the
WIFI adapters first as a different network and secondly as a increased capacity router or AP wireless.
So I was wondering which file controls the local access of the device itself hard cord. And then the one that tells it to assume certain ip-address and issue it.
I understand, I THINK? the fact that the Ras pi is controlling from hard chord one way and then would like to cause it to pool from a internal wireless on the Ras pi
internal WiFi to the dongles plugged into the USB slots and if they can be split up. Or if someone just wants to answer and put a dash by each and explain I would
be in heaven... As it involves a current problem we all have, time to time, (a (cheap expanded WiFi to WiFi no hard chord) ) or point me to another video would appreciate much.
I like the way you cut to the chase including the one command I missed unless your watching the video close... Tn-ks
can I connect ethernet using this same setup?
i cant search the wifi of raspberry please help me
WOW...i try many method but this only method that work for me maybe its the static ip that I wrongly put
what Raspbian version is this?
Hi,
Thanks for your tutorial it was very helpful!
Is there a way to uninstall all this? I am very new to raspberry pi and I don't have much experience with it.
Thanks a lot!
Can the static ip address be random?
Does this mean I’ll need to connect to my router via the Ethernet for it to work? I don’t quite get the part about needing the Ethernet cable and what it does
The "WiFi Extender" part of the title threw me off a bit too. It should say wifi range booster. The ethernet cable is to connect the Raspberry Pi to the router and the R-pi becomes the wireless access point for the router. There are other tutorials on how to make it a true wireless extender/repeater.
@@JosiahFurrer any tutorial you recommend? I still don't see any repeater vids!
@@markcohen3706 Of all the tutorials I've gone through, "balena" has the most up to date and detailed process. From what I saw, they have their own firm/software download links as well. I should also mention that I will be but have not yet made any of them. I was looking to make a small solar powered setup, and still plan to, but have too much paid work on my plate right now. www.balena.io/blog/turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-a-wi-fi-access-point-or-repeater/
Josiah Furrer thanks man, I followed this tutorial and didn’t see any wifi extenders/spot on my phone. Wasted time with this tutorial.
@@JosiahFurrer Well then this is just perfect for extending my ethernet cable to a distance outside my house down to my barn which is more than what just laying an ethernet cable's range which is about 300'.
Totally not for hacking
Well it connects but you should have said that it does not have internet.
It did for me. But I had to unplug the ethernet cable and reconnect to it made it make a new connection to the router. After that it was fine.
@@dadawoodslife can this work without the Ethernet cable?
@@ovlv1518 Ethernet in, Wifi out