That would be cellular to wifi tethering.
No, like…what he’s trying to do is to put the phone on an existing WiFi access point, then have the phone itself act as a second WiFi access point.
This phone is broken (broken screen) and was given to me, so I figured I’d use it as a WiFi extender, but I guess I can’t.
He’s trying to use it as an ad-hoc range extender. Like, he presumably has one device that can’t see the existing wireless access point, so he wants to put the phone somewhere that’s still in range of the first access point, then chain access to his device.
kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
That sounds like a hardware limitation more than anything. Is it normal for standard consume wifi chips to be able to receive and broadcast simultaneously on two different networks? I know that’s definitely not something you can usually do with PC hardware.
tal@lemmy.today 6 days ago
According to one of OP’s follow-up comments, he says that it works if he puts a random SIM in without service on it, so it’s not a limitation on his phone, at any rate.