Make a wifi repeater with raspberry pi 3 and long range wifi antanna

[Heera]

I'm a Linux noob and I bought I pi3 because I thought I would be able to use it as a WiFi repeater for my shop. My shop is pretty far away so I bought a long range wifi antanna. I get great signal but and can surf the web just fine on the PI. I just can't figure out how to turn use it as a WiFi repeater so I can connect my other devices. I have tried every tutorial on how to do it and I can't get those to work. I managed to get one to work with "Create_ap wlan1 wlan0 Myap My password" but it just randomly shuts off after a while and I can't figure out why. Any help would be appreciated this has turned into a PITA

[epoch1970]

Where did you add that "antenna"? Is it something you added to your access point, or something you added to the Pi?
- Case 1: to the AP => should be an antenna, but you shouldn't need a "repeater". If the Pi can connect ok, other devices will.
- Case 2: to the Pi => that's not an antenna, that is an USB wifi adapter with an external antenna. In this case you now have 2 wifi cards in the Pi, the external USB one, and the standard built-in one.
You need to configure the built-in adapter to run in Access Point mode, and manage a local wifi network in the shop.
That is done usually with hostapd and other programs on linux (example: how-to with Raspbian, built-in wifi interface to ethernet network). Personally I never heard of a "create_ap" command.
Which OS are you running?

[fruitoftheloom]

I'm a Linux noob and I bought I pi3 because I thought I would be able to use it as a WiFi repeater for my shop. My shop is pretty far away so I bought a long range wifi antanna. I get great signal but and can surf the web just fine on the PI. I just can't figure out how to turn use it as a WiFi repeater so I can connect my other devices. I have tried every tutorial on how to do it and I can't get those to work. I managed to get one to work with "Create_ap wlan1 wlan0 Myap My password" but it just randomly shuts off after a while and I can't figure out why. Any help would be appreciated this has turned into a PITA

Do you need a WiFi to WiFi Bridge ??

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 61#p938306

[drgeoff]

You could have bought a purpose designed, ready-to- use Wi-Fi range extender for less than half the price of a RPi3 + PSU + SD card.