Darkrising Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Hello, I just updated my pineapple to 2.2.0 and I heard you can use it as a router. As it currently stands in my home upstairs I have all of my office stuff: computer, server etc except wifi. I have wifi downstairs but it's extremely weak upstairs so I thought why not use the pineapple as a router for everything wireless upstairs. My home network uses 10.1.1.0/24 which are given out by my windows server. I set my pineapple to client mode and plugged it into my main lan, it has a static ip assigned 10.1.1.51. When I connect my tablet to the pineapple It gives me an ip within the 172 range and no connection to the internet. What do I need to change to get the pineapple to let the windows server give out the ips? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbi3 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Good new is that the firmware is based on openwrt and openwrt has a lot of documentation for everything http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/bridgedclient Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkrising Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 Good new is that the firmware is based on openwrt and openwrt has a lot of documentation for everything http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/bridgedclient I had considered looking at the documentation but I know that the pineapple is setup differently, that's why I asked here first :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WPA3 Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 I had considered looking at the documentation but I know that the pineapple is setup differently, that's why I asked here first :) Is it really stable enough to become your main router i tried it ages just isn't good enough for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebkinne Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 The WiFi Pineapple MKV is not designed to be your home router. Could it? Yes, absolutely, but you probably don't want to be running the WiFi Pineapple firmware on it. Best regards, Sebkinne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkrising Posted January 17, 2015 Author Share Posted January 17, 2015 I gave up on the pineapple as a router after tinkering with it and just picked up a cheap wifi router off of Amazon. Problem solved :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patriotek Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 I've been running my pineapple mkV as my router / wifi repeater, and it seems to be doing just fine. Stability is decent, so long as I reformat the swap and check the sd ext4 partition every once in a while. I do, however, leave the pineapple's network configs as default, rather than having dhcp issued elsewhere or what-not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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