Hi William, First Question, do you care about double NAT? Scenario 1: Bridge (Single NAT from WIFI AP's upstream router). * The 'box' joins a wireless AP, and all packets, including broadcasts, DCHP, ARP, pass through transparently to the wired port on the 'box'. Scenario 2: Double NAT * The 'box' joins a wireless AP, get an address from the upstream router and then NATs that, creating and managing a separate network for the wired port. Internet Access would be still be 'normal', you would not get broadcast traffic, or addresses from the upstream router. Scenario 2 is a lot easier, and covers the majority of use cases. ---- Over the last five years I've been using the TL-MR3020 as a swiss army knife for old ball networking. I actually own several of them. I did use it's stock firmware as a wireless bridge (Scenario 1), evening doing a PXE network boot over it. Although that was 4 years ago. OpenWRT works on it very well, and I've even gone through the pain of bricking and recovering one. https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3020 http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=690&item_id=047186 You can still find some stock in Canada Computers. On the TL-WR802N, It's 'next model' name-sake of the venerable TL-WR702N*, minus the oh so useful USB Host port... -_-; It is completely different hardware though, not the same SoC and it looks like the openwrt community is still getting their heads around it. https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr802n * TL-MR3020 is just a derivative of the TL-WR702N with hardware buttons, and an extra PCB antenna, and larger flash chip. So yeah, can't say anything about TL-WR802N other then it's half the price of the TL-MR3020. But the TL-MR3020 has worked well for me in the past. On 08/11/2016 11:52 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
Anyone have this one? http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1046_365&item_id=087761 http://www.tplink.ca/en/products/details/TL-WR802N.html If so, have you ever used its "Client Mode" and can you confirm that it works?
I need small portable "wireless bridge", and the advertised "client mode" is what I need. But, last TP-Link I bought was N750 dual-band TL-WDR4300. It advertised "wireless bridge" and even their tech support said so. But, both lied. Shocking!
I have Linksys WRT model with DD-WRT, and its client bridge works. But, it's a bit bulky to carry around.