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Re: Need help extending home wifi using Ubiquiti nanobeam M2 radio

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On 6/5/2015 5:32 PM, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote:
> Werner Obermeier <spamfreewob@arcor.de> wrote:
>
>> I already had the laptop wlan0 port connected to the Internet via
>> the home broadband router SSID, and I just want the laptop eth0
>> port to be rebroadcasting that Internet connection a few hundred
>> feet away (via the new nanobeam radio).
>
> I think you are really going down the wrong path. The M2 should be configured as
> an AP and plugged into an open port your existing router. You shouldn't be
> messing with your laptop at all.
>
> This of course assumes that you aren't talking about using the M2 as a true
> repeater, which I don't think it can do.
>
If you have access to a wired port on the router feeding one of the 
apartments, that is where the Nanobeam needs to be located.  Plug it's 
WAN port into an Ethernet port of the main router.  You may need to set 
the Nanobeam into the "bridge" mode so that it just becomes a "dumb" 
repeater.  That way it just echo's what it sees on it's WAN port out 
it's wireless port.  Still need to setup it's radio for security and 
such but that should be something you can do.

To me it sounds like you are presently trying to use your laptop as a 
router, taking it's wireless data and trying to echo it out it's 
Ethernet port.  Not impossible but much more labor intensive and not 
something I would consider on my own.

Hopefully someone here that uses one of these Nanobeams and can give you 
more specific info on what to do next.

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Need help extending home wifi using Ubiquiti nanobeam M2 radio Werner Obermeier <spamfreewob@arcor.de> - 2015-06-05 21:09 +0000
  Re: Need help extending home wifi using Ubiquiti nanobeam M2 radio Arthur Conan Doyle <dont@bother.com> - 2015-06-05 16:32 -0600
    Re: Need help extending home wifi using Ubiquiti nanobeam M2 radio GlowingBlueMist <GlowingBlueMist@blackhole.io> - 2015-06-05 19:28 -0500
  Re: Need help extending home wifi using Ubiquiti nanobeam M2 radio DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-06-06 02:09 -0400

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