Re: wireless client bridge connection to mobile phone hotspot

Marco Moock <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Nov 2021 07:24:04 +0100
Newsgroups alt.comp.networking.routers,alt.internet.wireless
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <20211120072404.4703744c@ryz>
Am Sat, 20 Nov 2021 06:06:12 +0200
schrieb Rudolph Rhein <[email protected]>:

> 1. The desktop has Ethernet but not Wi-Fi.
> 2. I have a router set up as a wireless client bridge.
> 3. That connects the desktop to the home router access point.
> 
> But... 
> 
> I can't get the same desktop to work with the mobile phone access
> point. A. I turn on the mobile phone access point on the phone
> B. A laptop with Wi-Fi can easily connect to that mobile phone AP
> C. But the router as a wireless bridge cannot establish the connection

Is the "router" (is is not a router in this context, because it does
not route anything) configured as a WDS repeater?