This is a project for setting up a subnet with any router and a raspberrypi.
You need:
- A Raspberry Pi (or pi) with an Ethernet port
- A Router
- One Ethernet cable (or additional ones if you desire)
The way this project works is that the pi is connected to the router and whenever the router gets a request for a site, it sends it to the pi. The pi can use it's wifi interface to fetch the data and send it back.
This setup is useful for when you need a wifi bridge or try to build a subnet in a network where you have no cables to connect to.
At my home, I've been banished to the guest network. This is unfortunate, due to the guest network prohibiting other devices from seeing each other.
When i got smart home devices, they worked, but everything worked just a bit wrong. I mitigated this for a while by creating a subnet with an esp32 (this was the only thing that worked weirdly).
It worked, but it was very unstable and incredibly slow. This setup is so much faster.