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Questions tagged [hotspot]

For questions pertaining to setting up or connecting to a WiFi hotspot.

A hotspot is any device sharing wirelessly it's broadband connection.

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Maximum Wi-Fi clients on Pi 3 hotspot

Is there a maximum number of Wi-Fi clients for a hotspot on the Raspberry Pi 3 (using the built-in Wi-Fi chip: Broadcom BCM43438)? Regarding the software, I'm using hostapd to manage the Access Point (on Raspbian). The goal is to serve some PHP…
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How do I configure wpa_supplicant with default iPhone SSID?

Newer iPhones will broadcast an SSID in hotspot mode as such: My Name\342\\\200\\\231\\s iPhone I observed this SSID in the GUI. When I grab the SSID via the command line: $ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan | grep ESSID > My Name\xE52\x80\x99s iPhone In the…
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Can I make a WiFi hotspot out of my Raspberry without it having an internet access?

I have made a Xamarin app for Android and WP, which is basically a music player, with the ability to sync music between devices, similar to Spotify, but it's used to sync music that you have downloaded as an mp3/flac or whatever in any way. Probably…
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Open Splash Page After Connecting to Wifi Hotspot

I'm using my pi3 to display a local "website" as described here Making a Raspberry Pi 3 accessible w/o configuration via WiFi and static IP/URL. Therefore, I'm creating a hotspot with the pi. This hotspot has no connection to the internet. Thus,…
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WiFi to Ethernet bridge / Internet sharing Raspbain Stretch Lite

I have a scenario where I have a cellular Wifi hotspot modem also known as 'MiFi'. The problem I am encountering is all the tutorials I have come across are mostly outdated or purely just don't work. What I am trying to achieve is the…
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Can the Pi "official" WiFi adapter do simultaneous Client/AP modes?

I want to a setup where my Raspberry Pi acts as a WiFi repeater, connecting to a WiFi network if available and rebroadcasting it's own network. In this way, my mobile hotspot could come and go, but the home computers would always be connected to…
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Ubuntu Server 18 Wifi Hotspot setup

I've switch my Rpi 4B (with raspbian) to ubuntu server since will be used as a portable WLAN web-server. My main objective is to set up an hotspot to access the local websites in the raspi. I got experience with the raspbian way to set up the…
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raspberry pi hotspot script not working

I use RaspberryPi 3. I would like to make it a hotspot if it can't find RaspbarryPi 3 auto wifi hotspot if no internet. The tutorial shows a code to edit rc.local file. Please find my code of rc.local file below: http://pastebin.com/3mRXHCUG When I…
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Making a wifi hotspot maintaining internet connection on the RPi

I followed this tutorial about making a wifi hotspot with a RPi 3 successfully. I can connect to the hotspot and have internet access on my devices, but I don't have internet access on my raspberry pi anymore via ethernet! I can still ssh on it and…
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How to blacklist devices on a raspberry pi 3 router setup?

I've recently set up a raspberry pi 3 as a simple wifi router, using: Ubuntu 16.04 hostapd dnsmasq I've followed the following tutorial and all went pretty smooth:…
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Making Raspberry Pi a wifi hotspot

I followed the following tutorial https://frillip.com/using-your-raspberry-pi-3-as-a-wifi-access-point-with-hostapd/ and I am successful in making my Pi3 an access point. The internet connection from eth0 is getting shared to users connecting…
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Connect to public wifi hotspot

I need to connect to a public wifi hotspot with a Raspberry Pi. The wifi is open but I have to authenticate through a webpage (e.g. on mac a window open with Join "Wifi_network" or on Android "sign in to wi-fi network"). However, I am running the…
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WEP WiFi Hotspot

So I want to use my DS online again, and what I need to do is get a router with WEP seurity, or a router without security. So I decided to use my Pi 3 B as a WiFi hotspot. But all the stuff I find is for WPA and the like. Is there a way to make a…
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WiFi network usage shows more than Ethernet usage

I have created a hotspot in raspberry pi(hostapd) and i have connected my mobile. I am downloading an app in mobile,let say app size is around 11MB.I am started running a network monitoring command in raspberry pi terminal(sudo ifstat -t) this is…
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Raspberry Pi 3: own Wi-Fi network (without internet)

Here I explain better what I would like to do with the Pi. The Raspberry 3 Pi has Minibian installed and serves as a controller for a robot that needs the Wi-Fi connection to work properly. Up to now I am using it in my house, so I know exactly the…
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