I live in an apartment that provides WiFi that has MAC address whitelisting with a cost per MAC address slot.

What hardware/software can I use to connect to their network and rebroadcast in a new network so that all my devices can connect but the WiFi provider only sees one MAC address connecting?

I’ve tried a WiFi range extender but it appears to be forwarding the MAC address of the my devices

To be clear, the ISP broadcasts its own SSIDs throughout the apartment block and I don’t have access to any physical network sockets

  • Dodecahedron December
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    301 year ago

    You need a wifi router. Connect the wan to your network. One mac, wan doesn’t know about your devices.

    • @Tibert
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      261 year ago

      And the WiFi router has to not be configured as a bridge device. It has to be it’s own DHCP provider.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Well, it has to be doing routing, at least. DHCP is a separate issue. OP could configure everything with static IP addresses, after all (although I don’t know why he would).

    • @[email protected]
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      141 year ago

      This ^. That way you have complete control over SSID, connected devices, passwords etc, and you apartment block only sees a single MAC address (WAN).

    • AdamOP
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      11 year ago

      Are there any routers that support this feature natively?