Wan over Wifi

[drinkingbird]

Yes, I have good relationship with my neighboor. This is temporary. And I would like to avoid to change fixed adresses of my devices

As has been mentioned, you can't do it with what you have now. But ethernet to wifi adapters are relatively cheap and will do what you need. Actually these days many of them are just wifi extenders that have an ethernet port in them so you can plug in a wired device, which would work for you. Some will allow you to disable the extender function and just use it as a bridge, but not all of them.

$20 to $30 solution. Here is one that lets you disable the repeater and just use it as a bridge - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093WZ15FR/?tag=snbforums-20
And another that is a few dollars cheaper - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N1WW638/?tag=snbforums-20

This one is only $15 but is a no-name brand. Not sure if it will let you disable the repeater portion but probably does, supports several different modes, even a basic router. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083MWXY4K/?tag=snbforums-20 or the non gig port version for $10 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LDNNH9Y/?tag=snbforums-20

If you absolutely don't want to spend any money on this then you'll need to use repeater mode and change your IPs for now. If you have a good relationship with your neighbor it shouldn't matter if they can see your devices or not.

 

[Tech9]

Yes, I have good relationship with my neighboor. This is temporary. And I would like to avoid to change fixed adresses of my devices

I'm sorry, but your neighbor is offering you help. He perhaps isn't offering you your entire network adoption. Cut all the IoT and streaming crap for 3 weeks time and connect only the devices you need Internet on for work/learn purposes. Otherwise you may not get user/pass next time.

 

[Nuggets]

I have an old asus rt n66u some where in box. Maybe i should use it as repeter and I connect the rt-ax88u to him. What do you think ?

 

[Tech9]

Maybe i should use it as repeter

Wireless Bridge is called Media Bridge in Asuswrt. This is what you need. Don't use Repeater mode.

 

[drinkingbird]

I have an old asus rt n66u some where in box. Maybe i should use it as repeter and I connect the rt-ax88u to him. What do you think ?

Um, yes, you said you only had one Asus router. If you have two, then you're all set.

Probably a good idea to undo all the changes you attempted to make to their router too....

 

[Nuggets]

I am sorry. I forgot I got this asus router 8 years ago.
You are right. I am going to undo all this attemps.

 

[drinkingbird]

I am sorry. I forgot I got this asus router 8 years ago.
You are right. I am going to undo all this attemps.

I would update the N66U to the latest available official Asus firmware (probably a few years old but still do it), factory reset, then configure it in media bridge mode. Your AX router should then get an IP from him as WAN IP and everything will work as it once did (assuming you have no inbound port forwarding or uPNP, but if you do you'll probably have to live without that for a few weeks unless he's OK with you putting yourself as DMZ IP).

Assuming you can get a good 5ghz signal on the N router you should be able to get 100-150M throughput (if their internet supports that much).

 

[dosborne]

Run an Ethernet cable? It's only for 3 weeks

 

[SoFluffy]

WISP is part of travel routers functionality. OpenWRT is just their firmware choice. Tomato can do it as well on RT-AC68U.

Just wanted call out that Tomato still can’t do WISP on RT-AC68U, and I was so disappointed when I tried it. (I had assumed it was the software that allowed/disallowed it, not the hardware.) At the time, I researched and ended up getting a cheap used Linksys EA6700 that would do WISP with FreshTomato, serving my purposes.