Raspberry Pi as Wifi Router

[gabrielpruss]

Hello guys.

I have a question.

I would like to simulate a WiFi router with my raspberry pi. That it has static IP, like 192.168.X.1.
The network needs to be private, without internet contact, DHCP, providing IPs. This connection needs to be WiFi only, without using the eth0 port.
Other devices, like smartphone, will connect to it, so you need to have an SSID.

Purpose: Open socket connection with an android application to send commands.


I searched on forums and websites and did not find it. Someone has some link to help with this setup.

If you have other ideas for this purpose, I also accept it. Thank you.

[allfox]

Here is an official document: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... s-point.md

While this idea would work, a Pi access point would be less powerful than those commercial ones.

I used an ath9k_htc based USB WiFi adapter to do this, it only allow 7 clients to connect at the same time, and no 5GHz band.

It would work, but less powerful. The best idea I think is connect to a commercial available WiFi router with Pi's Ethernet socket.