PFSense client Wireless Bridge

[whiteGloveReview]

So I Have a motherboard at the moment that doesn't have integrated wireless so my current setup is a laptop with an AMD E-300 (1.3GHz) with 4GB of ram to its name and Windows 10 Pro as a bridge adapter, taking the wireless in from my router and passing it through to my main tower via ethernet and I've noticed some horrible connection issues. I can't play any online game due to stuttering and connection issues, but I've had an idea to perhaps dualboot PFSense to serve as the wireless bridge. Due to financial reasons I can't exactly get a USB wireless dongle or a PCI-E card. And I live in an apartment so I can't route ehternet cables to my tower.

 

I have two questions

1.  Is this idea possible? (meaning that can I use PFSense as a client-side wireless bridge)
2. Would it have any benefits to the current setup?

[WINcon_Gaming]

You should be able to share a wireless connection to a wired in windows 10 without any external software. I'm headed to bed but try this link below and let me know what happens. It should be that easy.

 

It'd look like this...ISP MODEM >>> WIRELESS ROUTER >>> LAPTOP HOSTING BRIDGE connected via WIFI >>> DESKTOP connected to laptop via ethernet.

 

http://www.wikihow.com/Bridge-an-Internet-Connection

[whiteGloveReview]

1 minute ago, WINcon_Gaming said:

You should be able to share a wireless connection to a wired in windows 10 without any external software. I'm headed to bed but try this link below and let me know what happens. It should be that easy.

 

It'd look like this...ISP MODEM >>> WIRELESS ROUTER >>> LAPTOP HOSTING BRIDGE connected via WIFI >>> DESKTOP connected to laptop via ethernet.

 

http://www.wikihow.com/Bridge-an-Internet-Connection

OK the issue is though don't know if the laptop itself is taking up too much resources for this to be functional. I've been using the above mentioned setup (the windows 10 laptop serving as a wireless bridge) for a good month now with crappy connection. I'm wanting to iterate on this by perhaps using a less demanding OS to free up resources for the bridge

[Mr_Flynn]

PfSense wasn't really meant to work that way. In theory it's totally possible, but implementing it will likely be a challenge.

[whiteGloveReview]

6 hours ago, Mr_Flynn said:

PfSense wasn't really meant to work that way. In theory it's totally possible, but implementing it will likely be a challenge.

or some other lightweight operating system like Damn Small Linux or Puppy Linux (or even Ubuntu Server if push comes to shove)