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Ideas for how to use a spare wifi router? (self.permacomputing)

submitted 11 months ago by toaster to c/permacomputing

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I have an ac1900 wifi router that isn't in use and had support dropped by the vendor. My home network is already set up, so I don't have a need for it – otherwise, I'd probably flash OpenWRT on it. Any ideas for what I could use it for?

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[–] Crowfiend@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I'm sure others have posted better ideas, but I used to run a dual wifi setup at my old house. One router was the 'main' one and was basically just the core internet access, connecting to the second router. The second router had my VPN setup in the firmware, so if I wanted to pirate games/movies or do other VPN stuff, I just had to swap from one wifi to the other.

We needed the non-vpn network so that mom could do her job (work-from-home, they didn't like you using a VPN that wasn't their in-house connection).