Recommendations to extend - repeat O2 Hotshot

Tazium

Problem - O2 Hotshot limited to 5 devices
Solution - Add repeater / extender to host new internal network with hotshot as either bridged or extended.

Anyone been there?

ED E

Are you getting very good speeds right now?

3G access points arent designed to be used like a hard line. With more users you'll all get slower speeds and you will decimate that 15GB cap most likely.

Tazium

ED E wrote: »

Are you getting very good speeds right now?

3G access points arent designed to be used like a hard line. With more users you'll all get slower speeds and you will decimate that 15GB cap most likely.

The speed is fine, the requirements are simply to remove the five user limit as there are more iPods, iPads and iPhones all requiring connections for emails, casual surfing and AppStore stuff.

The use wouldn't be detrimental to the connection so I'd like to bridge or repeat S necessary. There's a few devices that seem to do this natively and others can be flashed with dd to enable bridging router to router.

5 device limit is just to low for the household.

Thanks

ED E

A wifi repeater MAY work.

Problem is the hotshot is a low power device and its not designed to manage that many devices. As the router it still has to control everything.

If you were desperate an old pc with pfsense and a sim card reader would do, but that'd be a bit more setup.

Tazium

Thanks for the reply. Connectify on the pc does the job ok. But we'd rather a router device. Edimax offer a number if solutions that will resolve the issue, but I've no experience with them either. I thought a netgear extender might do it but the manuals for various models suggest not.

If I find a solution I'll post it too as I can't be the only one needing more than 5 devices on the midband.

lotas

I got a Zoom 3G Wireless-N Travel Router from Maplin a couple of months back, and it works grand. Think its limited to about 254 devices... has a Ethernet connection, USB (for the 3G device, though it will work with an iPhone tethered) and 802.11N Wifi. Never had more then 4 or 5 devices connected, but should do the job...