esp_wifi_repeater VS etl2pcapng

esp32s and esp8266s are my favorite pieces of hardware... for $2 you can setup a wifi access point

https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_wifi_repeater

Have a look at one of the available WiFi repeaters (actually a WiFi NAT Router)

I'm trying to set up a wifi repeater using the binaries from https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_wifi_repeater. Flashing the software goes fine. Connects to internet fine. I set up the AP with a new name and password. Connecting to it seems fine but then it shows as connected, no internet. Any ideas?

Would something like this work? Connect to an ESP32 repeating the signal https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_wifi_repeater

I've never done an outdoor project but you'll need some waterproof strips and a sealed container for the mcu. You can buy waterproof strips in different led densities and styles from btf lighting in amazon and aliexpress, they are completely enclosed in a flexible plastic pipe (or hose?). Be careful with your maximum brightness since the leds can't dissipate as much heat. If they stay on during daylight you might lose many pixels. For the mcu I would use a small food container to which you can add extra waterproofing. If you need extra wifi range you can use an esp 8266 with this code on it https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_wifi_repeater

My mum has a portable WiFi device which is most time in her room, so the WiFi doesn't get to the living room and that's a problem but I love to solve problems so i did some googling and I found a GitHub repository for an ESP8266 repeater by martin-ger,the repo had a binary file for the repeater so I just flashed it into my esp8266 using esptool and it worked like magic. Click here to access the repository; however, there were some problems I had with this repeater(extender):

Copy the ETL file to a workstation, then use etl2pcapng converter from Microsoft. (https://github.com/microsoft/etl2pcapng)

etl2pcapng allows you to view ndiscap packet captures with Wireshark, thus overcoming the Windows use of etl files intended for ETW-centric tools like Microsoft Message Analyzer. NotAnExpert2020 explains, it "converts a netsh trace start/stop trace into something wireshark can read."

https://github.com/microsoft/etl2pcapng - etl2pcapng - converts a netsh trace start/stop trace into something wireshark can read.

netsh trace can do this out of the box. With the death of Message Analyzer, the easiest way to get packet data out of the ETL generated is this utility from MS: https://github.com/microsoft/etl2pcapng

Going to say not wireshark. Use the built in native windows packet capture) and convert it to a pcapng for analysis within wireshark with etl2pcapng.

If you have an older version of Windows Server that doesn't have pktmon on it you can also use the netsh method to capture to an ETL file. - Netsh trace start#start) - Now it used to be that I would convert the ETL file to .cap using Message Analyzer, but Microsoft has retired it and you can't download it anymore. In good news it appears that Microsoft has actually released a converter, https://github.com/microsoft/etl2pcapng, to do exactly this.