Ghetto Rigging a Repeater

[Darron D]

As a student gamer on a budget who has to save every penny he earns for a barely operational car, I can't really afford to buy powerline adapters or a networking card for my new PC. I suppose I could, but I see no reason to when I have a handy dandy Raspberry Pi 3. I can't always run ethernet through the middle of my house, as it irritates my folks, but I can't play rocket league with a 1000 ping either. So, I would like to use the pi to essentially serve as a wifi repeater in my room when I can't use a direct link, receiving the signal from my router downstairs, through-putting it to my PC via ethernet, and back through the loop. I know it is indeed possible, and the meager 2-3 mbps I could expect (i think I could expect at least) would be good enough for 99% of my needs.  Plus, I believe this could be a fun little 2-3 hour project to help me learn a little bit of linux and basic networking.  So the question I have is, where do I start? All of the searches I've done have led me to things that are semi-relevant, but not exactly the same. I just don't want to go through a long process of copying code I don't fully comprehend only to find that in the end, I had been following a tutorial on the wrong how-to.   Any help would be oh so greatly appreciated.  

[Enderman]

You can run ethernet along the corner of a wall and it becomes nearly invisible.

It will also get you way better performance, no packet loss, no additional latency, and will be cheaper.

[samiscool51]

1 hour ago, Enderman said:

You can run ethernet along the corner of a wall and it becomes nearly invisible.

you did read his post carefully? right?

1 hour ago, Darron D said:

 I can't always run ethernet through the middle of my house, as it irritates my folks, 

anyways, after some googling, i found this guild on how to make one

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-WiFi-Access-Point-out-of-a-Raspberry/

after reading some comments, some have had problems getting it to work

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, samiscool51 said:

you did read his post carefully? right?

Why do you think I told you that you can make it nearly invisible?

So that it doesn't "irritate your folks".

Any wireless solution is going to be worse than a cable and more expensive.

If you run the cable in the corner of a wall and around door frames literally nobody will notice it is there.

[Just.Oblivious]

4 hours ago, Darron D said:

 

So, I would like to use the pi to essentially serve as a wifi repeater in my room when I can't use a direct link, receiving the signal from my router downstairs, through-putting it to my PC via ethernet, and back through the loop.

 

What you're trying to make (a device that receives wireless traffic and forwards it over Ethernet) is called a "wireless client bridge".

 

It can be done with a Raspberry Pi: http://www.glennklockwood.com/sysadmin-howtos/rpi-wifi-island.html

 

[Darron D]

4 hours ago, Just.Oblivious said:

What you're trying to make (a device that receives wireless traffic and forwards it over Ethernet) is called a "wireless client bridge".

 

It can be done with a Raspberry Pi: http://www.glennklockwood.com/sysadmin-howtos/rpi-wifi-island.html

 

Just testament to my lack of knowledge in this department lol, thank you for that!