ThePog Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Yea so i have modem router that services the house just fine. I have a cat5 cable running from this to the shed and at the end of it a netgear modem running in (i think) bridge mode that takes the LAN and makes a second wifi signal for down in the shed. This is all just fine. I had a few old hard drives sitting around and decided to make a Nas with them using TrueNAS. It is pretty lol as it is 5 drives wedged in a sff machine and i have hot melt glued a second power supply in there to power the second set of drives. Its rough as fuck but works sweet. This is also just fine, however it needs a wired connection as TrueNAS does not support wireless comms. I want to put this setup somewhere out of the way that wont have a lan cable to it. I think i can set up another router in bridge mode that takes the shed wifi and sends it via a cable to the TrueNAS machine...... Is this the case? I have a Netgear D6200 that does not appear to have a bridge mode but i can install OpenWRT and get this functionality. What do you reckon? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locost_bryan Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 I don't know, but I could ask some of the people I work with at Chorus. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 You need ten five but fucked if I can find his username with the @ thing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 @mark105 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h4nd Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 I did exactly that with a $60(?) TP-Link, worked like a charm. Just had to config it exactly like they said, there was some weird non-intuitive setup thing where they broke all the usual setup conventions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark105 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 You need a router that can be a wireless client and connect to the shed WIFI and provide network to whats cabled in to it. There is lots of different names for this OpenWRT will do this for you and this guide shows you how https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/relay_configuration Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePog Posted December 6, 2022 Author Share Posted December 6, 2022 5 hours ago, mark105 said: You need a router that can be a wireless client and connect to the shed WIFI and provide network to whats cabled in to it. There is lots of different names for this OpenWRT will do this for you and this guide shows you how https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/relay_configuration Beauty. Altho both my spare routers dont have OpenWRT images I will try to find something suitable ta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datlow Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 We have 2x tp link mesh things at home My boy has connected his ps5 to The one down the other end of the house away from the incoming fibre Works good, but prob spendy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePog Posted December 6, 2022 Author Share Posted December 6, 2022 Thats ok. I have found one for $20 that might do it, but if not it has an OpenWRT install available. Chur 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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