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How do people build a reliable WiFi repeater?

I’ve tried a few things but none work well

Can theoretically do client + AP if they are both on the same channel, which would be the case here, but I couldn’t find a guide for #bookworm, everything is for earlier releases and as it happens, networking was thoroughly overhauled

Can’t do bridge from what I understand, it has to be routing, so that’s not in the official documentation

Has both Ethernet and WiFi so that should make it less confusing (can do a bridge) and there’s a guide in the official doc, but nothing helpful for when things don’t work out

And it didn’t work for long…

I was able to flash a sketch on a device and my phone is currently connected to it, but despite a strong signal everything is slooooow

I tried positioning the repeater in various places but that isn’t the issue, it’s just that there is added lag inherent in the system

Also I couldn’t add a second repeater to reduce signal loss at each step, I have no clue why, the second just won’t show up unless I place it near the root AP

I guess I could try with an ESP32 in case the lag comes from the lack of cycles, but really this feels like a patch on a patch at this point

My preferred option would be the Zero W since I have a bunch of those

I’m assuming I would have to place 3 total

#wifi #diy_electronics #RaspberryPi #esp8266