I suddenly need a wired connection for a job starting very soon but it won’t be hooked up for quite some time. I have my neighborswifi password though. Iknow this is a longshot, but would I be able to use my laptop to change a wireless connection into a wired connection?
It’s an older desktop Mac managed by the company. My laptop is an HP omen 15 with arch Linux on it
Get a cheap travel router that can use “bridge mode” to receive the wifi and pass along the connection through it’s ethernet port to your computer.
I have a spare router so this’ll be better if it works out. Thanks for the suggestion
You can, but you need to basically completely turn that laptop into a router. A cheap WiFi bridge would be more flexible.
A lot of wifi routers have a bridge mode you can put them in too. Just grab an old or cheap one, would likely draw less power and be quieter.
Great point.
Rather than trying to get your idea to work you would be better off getting a cheep WiFi access point as they often allow you to connect it to a wifi network and pass it through to wired devices via ethernet (bridging).
Some Wifi routers have a setting to allow it to be used in bridge mode as well.
If you have a mobile phone you just just connect it to your laptop via USB and turn on tethering to use your mobile data.
Don’t do it the hard way. Get a GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 (or any but that one is inexpensive) and set it up as an extender for the neighbor WiFi. It’s a basic function of the router and the Mac shouldn’t know the difference.
https://askubuntu.com/a/1547100/16134 should work.
Wow that looks promising thank you for that