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Turning a mini-pc into a WiFi access point (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by elyviere@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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After a hardware upgrade I ended up with a spare mini pc. Noticed these two icons and thought I might be able to use it as a WiFi access point with VLANs using OPNsense.

Is that possible? If so, what do I even need to buy to plug into there?

I don't need it to do any fancy dhcp, dns or firewall stuff, I just need a WiFi access point with support for VLANs.

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[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not really. If that's a hard requirement, check out what is supported by openwrt or freshtomato.

There was a similar question a few days ago with some points about wifi adapters vs access points brought up.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36614200

[-] elyviere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's mostly just a strong preference, so if I can reasonably do it I'd like to. Some great info in that post, thanks for finding it!

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