aries_uk Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 It wasn't the primary reason for me getting a Nano Pineapple, but as I do a lot of travelling I thought would be good to use the Nano to share the internet connection in the hotel and also be able to use my ChromeCast. After spending a good few hours trying to configure this at home I kept getting intermittent results, and got very frustrated for something I thought was straight forward! 1) Set and confirmed filters for client and SSID 2) Connected to existing home router on Nano showed connected, but sometimes didn't update the Default Gateway on the Nano. Very intermitant internet connectivity on the Nano, I tried to load bulletin/updates and it rarely worked. Eventhough other devices connected directly to the home router are fine. 3) Even when I did manage to have the Nano connected to the home router clients connected to the Nanao could not get internet. Can anybody help me at all please. And just to confirm, do I need to use PineAP for this solution to work? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinny Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Exactly how do you have your Nano connected to your home router? What did you do to obtain this connection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aries_uk Posted May 23, 2016 Author Share Posted May 23, 2016 Hello, I have inserted 3 screenshots below from my Nano on the Android App. It will only let me connect as client to my existing router on WLAN1 I assume it connects as I get no errors and it appears to receive an IP address. And then in the routing table the default gateway never updates to my router's IP (192.168.1.254). Should the DG be set to 192.168.1.254 on WLAN0 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aries_uk Posted May 23, 2016 Author Share Posted May 23, 2016 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByhchBxTIuK5UFBkQzRtRlpEemM/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByhchBxTIuK5T1h1dm1WQmcwXzA/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByhchBxTIuK5bTE0Z29MNHFGU3c/view?usp=sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinny Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 The easiest way to pull this off is to buy a cheap USB wifi adapter off of amazon and plug it into your nano. This will give you a wlan2. Use wlan2 in the client mode setup box. This dedicates a radio to exclusively connecting you to the internet. Just to make sure this works, I tested it out myself after your last post. The bulletins load for the pineapple, and my controlling device connected to the wireless management port was granted internet access through the pineapple. If you try to use the existing radios on the pineapple, you will lose some functionality with PineAP. PineAP controls the open SSIDs that are beaconed out, so you wouldn't be able to use those to connect. I'm sure there is a way to do it if you still want, but it is outside of my knowledge level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aries_uk Posted May 23, 2016 Author Share Posted May 23, 2016 Pretty sure I have one spare from my Raspberry Pi, i'll try that. Thanks very much for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooter22 Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 @aries_uk Just curious, did you get this working without the extra adapter ? I like the size of the nano and the power of the radios, I was thinking that this would be an amazing travel wifi box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forkish Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 a micro 2.4ghz adapter only ads about a 1/4 of an inch to the length for about $10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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