[Discuss] connection issue

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

I had problems integrating my home LAN with various hotspots in the past. I
solved the problems with a wifi bridge.

Attached is a picture of the bridge; it's a VONETS VAP11G-300 WiFi Bridge.
It plugs into the WAN port of an ordinary consumer wifi router, and is
powered via USB, which my wifi router has a port for. I configure the
Vonets device to connect via wifi to the hotspot, and the machines on my
LAN connect to the wifi router via ethernet or wifi.

I borrow the hotspots from my public library for a week at a time, so I
generally have a different hotspot every week. The only device I need to
reset every time is the Vonets bridge; all the machines on my LAN use the
wifi router, not the Vonets bridge, so none of them ever need to be
reconfigured.

I found the device on Amazon; I just looked it up again, and the price is
currently $26.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014SK2H6W


On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 5:15 PM dan moylan <jdm at moylan.us> wrote:

>
> shankar viswanathan writes:
> > I am not familiar with the Wifi access point that the
> > T-Mobile service provides, but I'm taking a guess here. Did
> > you set up these machines on a "guest" SSID network or some
> > such setting on the AP? I have found that the default
> > configuration in typical home routers for guest networks is
> > to isolate clients from each other and only allow access to
> > the WAN.  This would explain the behavior you are seeing.
>
> it is indeed a wireless access point connecting to their
> cell towers.  don't really remember, but signing in as guest
> is  not something i would have done on purpose.  the phone
> app shows all the connections, and nowhere do i see "guest".
>
> btw, when i ping i see "destinantion host unreachable"
>
> ole dan
>
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