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    no can do. Home router's wifi AP uses 3 MACs mode, but bridging as STA (client) requires 4 MACs mode. You can do this only if you are the AP (or reconfigure the router, the client and all other clients). networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/25100/… Commented Jul 27, 2020 at 22:17
  • I'm not sure I understood all the network jargon. can you be a bit clearer? Commented Jul 27, 2020 at 22:19
  • Read the link: that's the clarification. Commented Jul 27, 2020 at 22:19
  • I understand that to mean... ordinary consumer WiFi can't cope with multiple clients on the same wireless connection. Commented Jul 27, 2020 at 22:22
  • Not that. Even if you have router's firmware coping with that, you must switch to an alternate configuration (4 addresses mode) that's not compatible, you must also change this for everything using it. Including your smartphone, your wireless TV etc. Of course they probably won't be able to do this. If you have such a router (usually running OpenWRT and alike) and want to experiment, read there: wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/documentation/… (there's also WDS above, yet an other incompatible way) Commented Jul 27, 2020 at 22:26