I don’t think the router bits would fit in the phone slot and you would have to manually turn the phone to get the bits to route any design into the edge of the wood. I don’t think it would work at all!
Can a small android phone work as a router ?
Submitted 7 hours ago by LoveEspresso@retrofed.com to [deleted]
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Astronut@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Toes@ani.social 7 hours ago
it could, root it and setup iptables, connect it’s USB port to an hub of Ethernet adapters.
It would probably be slow though but sounds like a fun experiment.
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 6 hours ago
Yes, but which long of router? The lack of physical Ethernet ports will be kind of a limit…
tomcatt360@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
I mean, USB-C Ethernet adapters exist
False@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Technically you only need one (or even 0 with WiFi) ports. Look up “router on a stick”
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 hours ago
Yes, but I was thinking more of a real router, one with many Ethernet plugs. Afterall an Android phone already is a router if you enable wifi hot spot…
litchralee@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Technically yes. In fact, that’s exactly what smartphones do when they operate as a wifi hotspot: packets come in from the mobile provider and are IP routed to the Wifi network, and vice versa. Whether this happens using Legacy IPv4 and NAT, or with prefix-delegation on IPv6, it’s still routing.
LoveEspresso@retrofed.com 7 hours ago
Wow, never thought it that way !!