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I have a Pi that I setup for a task at my elderly Mother's house. Rather than change her WiFi credentials I just set up the Guest WiFi to mimic my own personal WiFi. The reason I did this is that I setup the Pi at my home on my WiFi and when I take it to her house I need it to connect to her network on power-up. I can only change her credentials or setup guest.
Anyway, now I want to port forward to that Pi.
I think I might be stuck.
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I doubt it can do that. I have two solutions for you. First, maybe try to connect the Pi to the G1100 via Ethernet? This increases connection stability also.
Or, buy a cheap access point like WCB3000N (Fios Network Extender Gen 1, $18 on Ebay). You can get two WLANs on this device, one 2.4Ghz and one 5GHz.
If you need instructions to setup the extender, please do ask.
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The problem is that it is a Pi-Zero-W with no ethernet port. Only WiFi.
I might need to bring it back home to my house so that it gets on my home network, ssh into it and change the wifi settings, reboot and.... when I take it to my Mom's again hope that I typed the ssid/key in correctly.
Don't really want to set up a separate network at this point but thanks for the option.
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No, the WCB3000N will be bridged with the existing network. You are technically not setting up two networks. This option still opens for you if you are interested,