Turn your RaspberryPi into a WiFi Router!

In this video we are going how to turn your RaspberryPi into a WiFi router! This allows you to take an ethernet cable and share it with multiple devices using wifi!
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[@cjlowe1650]

I did something like this years ago. Then RASPAP came out and it's so easy to setup but I like this cause it feels like I have more control and I understand how it works. Great video!

[@Prasanna_Naik]

Man your RaspberryPi 4K Tutotials series is OP!! Really helpful. Thanks a ton man.

[@SpaceRexWill]

Haha thanks man!

[@stuartbell7078]

This is a good, comprehensive guide. I like that you have covered all the snags such as unmasking the hostapd service, which other such videos seem to have forgotten to include.

[@jacobm007]

This is exactly what I've been looking for, but I have a few questions that I'm not sure I can answer myself. 1. Would it be possible to use this as a sort of repeater? For example using a wifi dongle to add another wifi interface, and connecting that to an existing wifi network using that instead of eth0 for internet connection. 2. What about a hotspot using mobile data through a usb sim adapter? 3. Assuming the above is possible could you dynamically switch between Ethernet, Wireless, and mobile based on what was available? 4. Could you use vlans on the eth0 interface to allow for a wired LAN network and a wired WAN using a vlan aware switch?

[@JanendraYadav]

It worked. But many a times I have restart the pi in order to connect a new device. Still it works. 👍👍👍

[@jackchaney9829]

Hi, Great guide for setting up a wifi router, but it seems to have a limitation of needing to be on a wired ETH0 line for access to internet. I was hoping to be able to use this as a wireless hub linking to a home/work/travel wifi using a second USB wifi link on WLAN1. Then create a simple PHP to choose detected wifi routers. Hopefully this is an easy fix, and what I'm thinking will work out. Thanks

[@AI-PhotographyGeek]

Thank you for making this video! I tried to do it earlier and run into trouble because of my limited knowledge of Linux. Now I will try to do it again.

[@SpaceRexWill]

Great to hear!

[@andydeidre6248]

Just what I was looking for to remote into my RPi from VNC Viewer on my iPhone -- Thank you for this amazing documentation!

[@SpaceRexWill]

Thank you!

[@Gryfang451]

Thanks! I've been looking for a travel router/hotspot. This way I might even be able to firewall in front of my laptop. Hotel Wi-Fi is so spotty, but most still have ethernet ports in rooms.

[@Autotrope]

The DHCP lease time doesn't necessarily mean they'll get a new IP address after that. It's up to the client to say "I already had this lease and I want it renewed" which should go smoothly and let it keep its IP and I believe this works even if it has disconnected in between, the client just has to have that claim of lease and the IP has to obviously still be ok for it to use. I don't know under which circumstances clients throw away this information and that may vary by client but it would typically cause an unexpired lease to be thrown away too.

[@sashamc309]

Thank you very much! Your great, informative walkthrough helped me set up a working AP and router on my Raspberry Pi. I honestly thank you because this made so much sense and resulted in a working Wi-Fi AP, whereas the other guide on the web resulted in me not being able to ssh into Pi anymore. That's pretty much why it took me a whole evening to set this up, I'm glad I found your guide, I only wish that I found it first. But anyway, I learned a lesson or two while messing with this. Thanks again!

[@Autotrope]

Good video. Sets itself apart from all the "here are the steps" videos that don't explain why you are doing all these steps

[@DavidOster]

When I wrote this, none of the "I'll put it in the description below" was in the description.

[@SpaceRexWill]

whoops lol added

[@tysonnguyen2273]

@@SpaceRexWill when I created the network, it showed a “no wireless interface founded” with an up and down arrow, do you happen to know how to fix it?

[@MrLarryl79]

Not completely what I looked for but it was a perfect base for it. In my scenario, I've got a 4G LTE stick which provides an ethernet interface for WAN, and eth0 and wlan0 is bridged. Thanks! Since I didn't find a complete solution, I considering making an install script or deb package.

[@rocketguy]

i got stuck at 5:53! what do i type??!!? i did that and i brings me a blank page also there is only one file directory which is Bookshelf

[@real_mddiamond]

sudo apt install dhcpcd sudo systemctl enable dhcpcd sudo systemctl start dhcpcd This worked for me.

[@Oamaruastro]

I found this just now since I’m trying to set up my Raspberry Pi to work as an AllSky camera out in the field where I have no internet connection, but want to be able to go out there and connect wirelessly to the RSP with my laptop to see what images have been captured. So there’ll be no router, just me with my laptop or phone trying to connect. Is there a way to do that?

[@danielrawat9114]

Hi mate, I have followed you every line of code, but after configuring all and rebooting the raspberry pi, the sid is not visible in the wifi search, could you please help to investigate it.

[@troybenson2119]

I can see my raspberrypi as a possible wireless network but it says checking network requirements and then says cant connect to this network? Anything i can do to determine why?

[@opijkkk4918]

can you explain how to get adblocker with pi as wifi router

[@marcusfarrell242]

Hey man I got a question I believe I did everything right and it shows that I can connect to it but when I try to it says there’s no connection could you possibly help me figure this out thanks man and good video

[@sararara3277]

and did you fixed it have the same issue

[@KurtSelf]

definitely going to give this a try (but with 2 Wifi's - not sure any value of Ethernet since our phones don't have jacks) but this will be a great tutorial for wlan0 and wlan1. THANKS!

[@simbarasheandrea4686]

Can i use the wifi router to access lets say I have installed a webserver like Apache2 on Raspberry Pi

[@andrzeyknapik5732]

Awesome tutorial as always, but how can I turn this into a straight access point, no DHCP or routing, this will be provided by my router for home use. I just want to create another access point in the house.

[@TimothyPersad]

Do you remember that scene from Find Nemo when Squirt is telling Dory and Marlin the exit instructions? "It's like he's trying to speak to me. I know it.“

[@os-channel]

Hi SpaceRex, what a great project! It works properly. I would like to setup a MQTT project with one ESP32 as a subscriber and another ESP32 as publisher. The broker should be a local RasPi standalone as Broker-Server creating its own WLAN without connection to the Internet via Router or Access Point. Can you give me hints how to do this? The handling of the ESP32 should be easy. But with the RasPi I have got my problems to combine the installed Mosquitto and the WLAN-Server capabilities. Do you have this setup described in one of your courses? (Please without NodeRed.) Thanks! Oli

[@roshansuranga6929]

Create uap0 access point.

[@bokami3445]

Great video, easy to follow and just what I was looking for. Subscribed!

[@daemdotosowolo952]

I use USB modem 4G and is as eth1, replace just only eth0 with eth1... Not working ....

[@fuchs_der_nacht8143]

wehn i put in "sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o 0 -j MASQUERANDE" then it comes "iptables v1.8.7 (nf_tables): Chain 'MASQUERANDE' does not exist Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. " waht have i did wrong ?

[@BrennerEraFan]

This is such an amazing tutorial. Perfect intro by the way :). I was wondering what the difference is between hardware modes b and g.

[@BrennerEraFan]

Also, how would I set up both 2.4 and 5GHz bands?

[@SpaceRexWill]

so b is 2.4g and g is 5g. I don't know if you could setup both bands... have not tried it

[@BrennerEraFan]

@@SpaceRexWill I thought you said a was 5G

[@LocalTrashyt]

@@BrennerEraFan a was 5GHz

[@markbishop6146]

i get the error sudo iptables -t nat -A postrouting -o eth0 -j masquerade iptables v1.8.7 (nf_tables): Chain 'masquerade' does not exist anyone else get this?

[@zainalishammat2866]

i tried to do the iptables but it doesn't work because the command -t is not included

[@chivainmanfoumbi9026]

very very clear explanations... what about if a want tout add another route ? I mean if I connect a USB TO RJ45 adapter (eth1) wich is connected to another network like 172.16.14.0 . what sould be the command line for this new route??? ...thanks

[@DiyintheGhetto]

I think having a better external USB 3 wifi with external antenna would be better for something like this. That would give better speeds. But over all awesome Job Rex man you did.

[@andrei.0016]

Easy to follow and a grate tutorial but for some reason I did all the steps but the network doesn’t show up. Any idea how to fix it?

[@owenmarganski6731]

I am trying to get Ethernet working with this setup, and don't quite get what else I have to change in the text to make it work. Can I get some help?

[@UN7X]

At 17:10 do I change “interface=wlan0” to “interface=eth0” if I was making wifi to Ethernet?

[@donaldhoudek2889]

Hi again, Another GREAT video, I left a comment on your other video regarding Pi router but I believe this one is much closer to meeting my needs and those of other remote access VPN connections. I have an RV in the Georgia mountains and a Unifi UDM-Pro (VPN - Subnet 70) at home here in central Florida. I am able to connect to the UDM-Pro via VPN on my iPhone and Windows laptop so I know the VPN works fine. The RV has access to only a campground 5GHz Public Wi-Fi AP for internet access up to 100Mbps. I am trying to figure out how to set up the Raspberry Pi to access the Campground Wi-Fi and automatically connect to the UDM-Pro VPN (Subnet 70) at home. I have 2 BrosTrend AC650 5.8GHz USB Wi-Fi adapters that the Pi will be using to connect to the Campground Wi-Fi and as an AP for the RV. The reason for this Pi setup is that I have Wi-Fi devices in the RV that can not be setup to connect to a VPN setup without the help of the Pi. I guess I will need to somehow setup a VPN client on the Pi to accomplish this along with some auto logging for the secret pw and regular password. Your thoughts, Don

[@brcosmin]

Thank you very much for the in depth guide, it was the only one that worked for me. I only have one small issue, if I install and run NordVPN, the minute I connect my Pi to a VPN, the internet no longer works for the clients, it does work for the raspberry pi if I connect via HDMI and a keyboard. Is there any way to keep this working with a VPN?

[@l3tsfabi]

My WiFi say that i have no internet conection What did i wrong?

[@cesarantonio1884]

will this work if i have the waveshare 7600X 4G hat on the raspberry ?

[@tmotten]

This awesome. Even though I only understood parts of it (I'm a Linux and code weenie). Would I be able to use this setup with a pi connected to a public wifi through a Ubiquity nanostation antenna connected via ethernet to the pi? The pi would need to be able to sign up to the public network through a webpage with login credentials.

[@Autotrope]

hostapd defaults to not enabling any of the higher speeds unique to wireless N or AC so it'll be stuck at 54Mbit and a 20Mhz channel. There is a wealth of settings you have to add and on the Pi 3+ and later it is possible to get wireless AC at 433Mbit speeds which is an 80MHz wide channel with single stream AC speeds but the setup is eye wateringly complex.

[@abc20723]

Hi SpaceRex. For a research project, i have to do the same process but on a Intel NUC with a 5G modem for internet instead of ethernet. Could you give me some guidance how can i do that?

[@russdibennetto8591]

Have a problem and a question. I have multiple Raspberry Pi's from Model b to Pi4. I also have an old Series 2 Tivo that connect to my Primary router using WEP though an old Linksys USB wireless B adapter. I want to convert my Primary router to WPA and somehow till connect the Tivo though it using WEP. Using one of my Raspberry Pi's would be a good solution and hence my question. How do I configure the Wireless AP on the Raspberry Pi to support WEP? And which Raspberry Pi's will support this. I know my Pi-4 won't support WEP to connect to an AP and is hard wired. Can't this be done and any information will be greatly appreciated. Thanks and Loved you video.

[@livebythebay]

How would I use the onboard wifi card as a access point, but have my internet coming from 2 wifi dongles on the raspberry pi?

[@zerocool1884]

Nice to see that sub number going up. Congrats

[@SpaceRexWill]

Thanks man! means a lot!

[@cyphercrypto8922]

I followed this tutorial to the T and my raspberry pi 4 32-bit still now showing my SSID after I reboot. If I wanted to do it with a lan cable. Put eth0 . Interface=eth0 domain=eth address=rt.eth/ip address? Also I tried it with standard wlan and it didn't work for me. I was creating it within my raspberry pi 4 terminal.

[@ActionParsnip]

After the touch command, run can run: sudo nano! $ and it'll open

[@salehmir9205]

Very useful. Thanks man. Keep up the good work!

[@dlohnes]

Hello, I don't get it, I followed your directions to a "t" and now the Raspberry Pi 4B works as a wireless router...BUT...only when the ethernet cable is plugged in. I would like to be able to do both, but most of the time I just want to use it as a wireless router, without the ethernet cable. Is there a solution?

[@gurt.yuri3378]

How would I connect my rapsberry pi 3 b+ to wifi and use it to for an ethernet cable to connect another pc in a location where I cant hard wire the second pc to the router directly.

[@flame3303]

it worked, but cannot ping the devices that connected to raspberry router wifi. By that mean: I have my pc connected to internet directly using ethernet , pc ip is 192.168.1.3, and setted up raspberry pi router on 192.168.4.1/24, and the other computer connected to raspberry wifi , it's ip is 192.168.4.13. so I cannot ping 192.168.4.13 from 192.168.1.3, any solution ?

[@johnmock8231]

I'd completely disregarded the fact that you require two interfaces in order to make this work, I tried create an AP using wlan0 and also connecting to the main router using wlan0. :D

[@mwasylewski96]

Can I connect rasberrypi to some local wifi instead of connecting to Ethernet and do everything the same in this tutorial and will be ok?

[@dangatonegro]

Nice job! Good, aesthetic IT tutorials are not really easy to find ;)

[@josh1666]

I'm struggling to get this to work even after following the guide. I am able to connect to the wifi, but it doesn't actually allow me to access anything (websites, etc). Any suggestions on what might be causing the issue?

[@dannyhiczful]

I formatted my SD, reinstalled the OS, and made it all the way through only to find that none of my devices can find it on the network list.... any troubleshooting advice???

[@christiancabrera9495]

Allegedly 802.11ac is supported, I wonder what would be the settings for the hostage.conf file?

[@johnnyjoubert9583]

How do i setup the pi so i can access a wifi network from the ethernet port? I want to connect a server to have wifi access through the pi.

[@kboy5189]

Great video, to the point, no BS. That's why I give 5 * if ratings are done in stars

[@SpaceRexWill]

Thanks!

[@Davidlavieri]

Does it have to be raspberry os? Could it be simple Ubuntu

[@RacinMason77]

This is very helpful. I'm trying to create a mobile offline network to host a plex server on. I want to use a pi3+, have it act as a router as well as host local files on plex. From there it needs to work offline and send the media to a streaming device like Roku. Can a plex server be installed on top of this?

[@user-eq1er5lh3d]

Thank you for your tutorial! very informative!!

[@vitanuevo]

It works fine for me using hw_mode=a but not with hw_mode=b or g, what could it be? i want to router a 2.4ghz AP not 5ghz

[@Etitexity]

sudo: netfilter-presistent: command not found WHY?

[@Samuel-yh5lh]

when i ping the pi, it says "destination net unreachable". What is the problem here? i did everything like said in the video

[@booshnelli7841]

awesome!! perfect timing too, i was literally looking for guides on this just yesterday haha. can't wait to try this! 🤘

[@SpaceRexWill]

Hey glad the timing worked out lol

[@bruceb8140]

Can you clarify between eth0 and WLAN0 if the devices on the network will be on ethernet ? Do we swap WLAN with eth at every step? I'd like to connect a tablet via pi wifi to the pi to see devices on the pi Ethernet wired to unmanaged isolated switch

[@Wojtek_1777]

Can this work with parrot security edition?

[@thechezanimations9053]

When my phone tries to connect it says something about a MAC address and in the totorial you said to look it up but I can’t find anything, can you help me out?

[@notgeorge5697]

I actually find this video pretty helpful, but I have a problem. I can connect to the access point, but I don't have internet. Do you know why?

[@newbbeat]

great concept now what if i hook a battery to the pi

[@dannyhiczful]

I tried this on my Pi 4 model B and it says "not found" and "does not exist" so is this outdated??? Please advise!

[@ericilkwatson5557]

What if I added another eth card and created a bridge for eth1 and wlan0. How can I add it to this router if I want it to use this bridge instead of the wlan0 to connect to eth0? Is there an easy way to do this?

[@TheLordGuy-55]

Could you use this to host Lan games using the raspberry pi and connecting other laptops with Ethernet ?

[@Jonas_Jones]

After following the tutorial, when trying to connect to it, it couldn't, giving back that it couldn't get the IP adress. how do I fix this?

[@xmash1527]

Hello, I have a question, I already have the AP of the raspberry, however when I try to connect from any device, it stays "getting the IP address" and after that does not connect. Do you know what solution may have this problem or what is due? PD: Sorry for my English

[@russchristensen3808]

These instructions seem to work to connect from Windows but when I connect from an Android Tablet it says "connected without internet". It has something to do with the DNS settings. I mean I have no idea this is a guess. Is there something else that needs to be done to setup the DNS?

[@QuanNguyen-og6pq]

great quality! Keep it up, dude.

[@sbeve3669]

Hey dude when I tried to connect to it is said that I connected but it said that the internet was unavailable I didn't plug in an ethernet cable that could be the issue by the way what do I do with the ethernet cable

[@tjrjcj]

Can you have both 2.4 and 5 instead of just 1 of them?

[@Jmotorev]

Do you know how to setup the Raspberry PI 4 as a Dual home... Meaning I can connect to WiFi for all internet activity and then my Eth0 for all private network traffic that is on a different subnet... like for example my home network over WiFi is 192.168.1.0/24 and the Eth0 is 192.168.50.0/24. I want to be able to log into the Raspberry (not headless) to use it to connect to WiFi and my private network at the same time.

[@josephtsangko3558]

Sorry, what is the os installed on Rpi?

[@rodrigogarciana]

Thanks for the video. Just a trickier question. I've successfully installed two things separately: hostapd (for the access point/router) and tailscale (to connect to an exit node that I have running in a different country [where isp has me behind a NAT]), in the raspberry pi if I switch on the tailscale VPN the thing rpi connects to the vpn, but the AP [hostapd] stops working. And if I switch off the tailscale VPN then I'm able to use it as a normal AP [obviously no VPN routing]. Tailscale creates 2 new interfaces [tailscale0 and lo] and sets some forwarding tables. A bit dark for my knowledge. Do you have any recommendation or quick pointer? Thanks again!

[@mateja176]

I've installed Rasbian OS Lite 64 Bit on a Raspberry Pi 4 and there is no /etc/dhcpcd.conf file available. Instead there is an /etc/dhcp folder, containing /etc/dhclient.conf among other files. Does the change conflict with this setup?

[@pierresterling]

I am having the same issue. Anyone know how to proceed?

[@mynguyenvan3859]

@@pierresterling bạn có thể cài bo pi bulleyes

[@mynguyenvan3859]

I can't find /etc/dcpcd.conf file on my pi board

[@villocity5794]

so when i connect to the internet or wifi i made it says connected without internet :/ and when i go into tiktok as a test (im using samsung (mobile)) it loads vids but i cannot like and it will not load my pfp like it has no internet when it should do you know what i should do

[@MN-id2cl]

I did this to the last point and while the access point is up and running (all my other devices can connect to it), it has no internet connection. Would anyone have any clue as to what I'm missing? I'm running a raspberry pi 4 with the latest OS.

[@UN7X]

would this work on a raspberry pi 0 w?

[@SpaceRexWill]

It would, however you would need a wired Ethernet port in

[@pavlegaming4263]

do i have to connect ethernet to raspberyry pi so it can be a router, or i can go wireless?

[@jeetvanii]

will it create it without etehrnet like just in case to use a access point

[@Jack-00]

Does anyone know how to set up Pi Hole or something similar to work with this?

[@fredericogoncalves3704]

Hi, did you already try to setup this WiFi Router as WireGuard VPN client and use it as a travel router ?

[@MiguelMarinho]

this #spacerex @spacerex it would be really nice to show how to adjust this to wireguard VPN client (here's your video kzbin.info/www/bejne/np-9f6WfgdiSnpY&ab_channel=SpaceRex)

[@thebeastman6668]

I had a network until I didn’t put the shutdown command in :(

[@tr4593]

Doesn’t work on sudo iptables command I get an error🤷

[@PickleWarrior]

same

[@tysonnguyen2273]

I followed the entire video and I got a "no wireless interfaces found" error, is there a way to fix that?

[@mythicalspryzen773]

I have tried like 3 different tutorials and none of them are working for whatever reason I did everything and my wifi pops up and I can connect to it but it says connected with no internet,and there isn't an option to connect to wifi anymore anyone know how to solve this??

[@jomogo4644]

It does make the access point but the wifi does not work from the raspberry pi

[@troyburnette3321]

So do I need to have wifi already for this work.....or does this method make wifi out of thin air (I'm an idiot)

[@SpaceRexWill]

This will work like a WiFi router. You have to plug it in

[@WolfRaven71]

So i am thinking i could use this with my LTE 4G hat (wwan0) and share that to the wlan0 so it becomes an all in one LTE modem / wireless router. Has anyone ever done that?