bridging router to Android 4g

[Pants]

Hello techs. Been gone a while. I'm getting back into general computer support for home and small office settings.

I want to avoid getting a regular ISP unless I have to. I've been using a Verizon 4g data plan from my Android phone, and when I want to connect my desktop or laptop to the Internet I've just been using the Android phone as a wifi hotspot.

I have a Linksys WRT54g router that I installed DDwrt on. Is it possible to set up the router as a wireless bridge to my Android 4g hotspot? I would like to be able to get a wired connection from my customer's computers to my 4g Verizon service, via the router bridged to my Verizon 4g service. I'm sure I could install a wireless NIC driver onto my customer's computers to get a wireless connection to my Verizon 4g service, but I would rather avoid installing stuff onto customer's computers.


I've bridged two routers together using Tomato firmware (via wireless) but I'm not familiar with how to bridge a DDwrt router to a Cell phone hotspot to get an Internet connection, if it's even possible.

 

[LordIntruder]

https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Bridge
Your Phone is just the Router in AP mode. Nothing more, nothing less. Configure your Linksys as a client bridge.

 

[Pants]

Thanks for posting. I'll tinker with it a bit more

 

[fencepost]

I've done this on OpenWRT experimenting at home, basically by adding a Client Wifi connection, but it's been a couple years.

One question is going to be whether the router's able to be both a client and AP on the same frequency - in my case I was able to tether on 2.4, provide Internet to the physical LAN, and have laptops connected to the AP on 5GHz.

 

[Rafael Segnini]

Hello techs. Been gone a while. I'm getting back into general computer support for home and small office settings.

I want to avoid getting a regular ISP unless I have to. I've been using a Verizon 4g data plan from my Android phone, and when I want to connect my desktop or laptop to the Internet I've just been using the Android phone as a wifi hotspot.

I have a Linksys WRT54g router that I installed DDwrt on. Is it possible to set up the router as a wireless bridge to my Android 4g hotspot? I would like to be able to get a wired connection from my customer's computers to my 4g Verizon service, via the router bridged to my Verizon 4g service. I'm sure I could install a wireless NIC driver onto my customer's computers to get a wireless connection to my Verizon 4g service, but I would rather avoid installing stuff onto customer's computers.


I've bridged two routers together using Tomato firmware (via wireless) but I'm not familiar with how to bridge a DDwrt router to a Cell phone hotspot to get an Internet connection, if it's even possible.

yes you can, put the wrt54g as a repeater

 

[Pants]

Son of a gun... It's working! Client Bridge works. I haven't tried it in repeater mode. Whatever the case, the router needed a restart after the changes were made.

Thanks for posting everyone