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I need help bringing ethernet to my server (lemmy.ml)

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I'm trying to set up my server a dell power edge 420. My server is loud and proud of its power usage. Anyways my bedroom is upstairs and no good way to bring ethernet up. I don't feel like spending money on a WiFi card because I don't have money for it, but I do have a pi 4 and I was thinking to run the standard os, but use the Ethernet port to share to other comeputers. But my solution is super janky and I want something better.

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[–] Quazatron 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That'll probably work. I used an old TP-Link 4 port WiFi router to do it. Flashed OpenWRT on it, set up the WiFi as client and bridged the ethernet ports off the WiFi. It's not fast, but works.