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What WiFi relay system can I host at home?

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I live in an apartment that provides WiFi that has MAC address whitelisting with a cost per MAC address slot.

What hardware/software can I use to connect to their network and rebroadcast in a new network so that all my devices can connect but the WiFi provider only sees one MAC address connecting?

I’ve tried a WiFi range extender but it appears to be forwarding the MAC address of the my devices

To be clear, the ISP broadcasts its own SSIDs throughout the apartment block and I don’t have access to any physical network sockets

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Dodecahedron December@sh.itjust.works
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You need a wifi router. Connect the wan to your network. One mac, wan doesn’t know about your devices.

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Tibert@compuverse.uk
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And the WiFi router has to not be configured as a bridge device. It has to be it’s own DHCP provider.

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grue@lemmy.world
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Well, it has to be doing routing, at least. DHCP is a separate issue. OP could configure everything with static IP addresses, after all (although I don’t know why he would).

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Luckyfriend222@lemmy.world
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This ^. That way you have complete control over SSID, connected devices, passwords etc, and you apartment block only sees a single MAC address (WAN).

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preciouspupp@sopuli.xyz
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Connect using 2.4GHz, create own network with the 5GHz antenna?

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Adam@lemmy.adambowl.esOP
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Are there any routers that support this feature natively?

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daemon@open-source.social
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You could install Fresh Tomato firmware on any supported router and do this using wireless client mode: https://wiki.freshtomato.org/doku.php/advanced_scenarios

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