ESP8266 Community Forum

- Fri Aug 19, 2016 5:36 am #53279 Micheal,

How can I make ESP8266 as a WiFi range extender?
Following is scenario:
ESP connected to Internet WIFI-Router and obtained IP as 192.168.1.25

Client browser connected to ESP using 192.168.4.1 and should be able to browse the internet.

Please help.

- Fri Aug 19, 2016 7:21 am #53284

Client browser connected to ESP using 192.168.4.1 and should be able to browse the internet.

ESP isn't a router. ESP cannot route packets from Client to the internet.

- Fri Aug 19, 2016 8:54 am #53294 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NH1rjk3Q_MU

- Fri Aug 19, 2016 9:08 am #53295 As you can see with the link you've provided, ESP is not a router, but it is implement a proxy in software, since it is not done neither by the ESP hardware or the low-level networking layer.
The guys even says that it is not 100% reliable, and the sad thing is that he is not even providing link to his source code.