What WiFi relay system can I host at home?

Adam@lemmy.adambowl.es to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 49 points –

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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You need a wifi router. Connect the wan to your network. One mac, wan doesn't know about your devices.

And the WiFi router has to not be configured as a bridge device. It has to be it's own DHCP provider.

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).

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

Connect using 2.4GHz, create own network with the 5GHz antenna?