<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">So i did some research on this idea.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Very slanted, but has some interesting points</div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://blog.dlink.com/why-using-a-wi-fi-portable-router-is-better-than-tethering/">http://blog.dlink.com/why-using-a-wi-fi-portable-router-is-better-than-tethering/</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">and they suggest this device, which i think is pretty spiffy for a portable device to do this very thing.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://us.dlink.com/products/connect/wi-fi-ac750-portable-router-and-charger-3/">http://us.dlink.com/products/connect/wi-fi-ac750-portable-router-and-charger-3/</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">And then you can use any DDWRT compatible router in this manner</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Bridge#Instructions">http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Bridge#Instructions</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Your best bet is probably to buy a normal home router and get yourself a generic usb cell data stick, most anything that will run dd-wrt will support using them as the "wan". Most netgear, asus, buffalo, etc routers come stock with dd-wrt, or some bastard oem version thereof. Just google the model you're thinking, and make sure they're supported by open-wrt or tomato case the oem version sucks.<br>
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You don't even need a new/modern one unless you want 802.11AC (so your mac friends with new powerbooks don't turn their nose at you), so hit Craigslist/ebay too.<br>
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Problem with a phone is they usually won't have enough power and antenna to deal with that many clients, whereas a router, especially one that has sma connectors for external antennas, will. They also do nifty things like supporting 5ghz clients vs. just 2.4ghz crappiness, channel-bonding, channel-steering, etc.<br>
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Attaching 50 clients on even an enterprise ap is a lot for one channel... Your phone will go insane, and interference from that many speakers will make it useless.<br>
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-mb<br>
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On 09/23/2014 08:54 PM, David Schwartz wrote:<br>
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Simple question: I'm looking to see if anybody knows of any mobile apps that run in either iOS or Android that support a "mobile hotspot" (or "personal hotspot") and allow more than 5 DHCP connections? Preferably up to 255, although 50 is about as many as I'd need.<br>
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What I'm looking for is the ability to configure a mobile device to support a micro-LAN where people in a meeting room can communicate through a single sub-net without having to rely on the facility's WiFI router (because they frequently block most ports) or an external router (if a phone or tablet works, why require another device?).<br>
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I don’t even need to get to the internet. It’s just a way for mobile devices to communicate with a single “host” device where everybody is sitting at the same meeting.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
-David<br>
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