Expanding Your Raspberry Pi: Storage, printing, peripherals, and network connections for your Raspberry Pi

© Mark Edward Soper 2017

Mark Edward Soper, Expanding Your Raspberry Pi, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2922-4_5

5. Sharing an Internet Connection

Mark Edward Soper¹ 

(1)Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

By using the Ethernet port found on most Raspberry Pi models to connect to a network and sharing that connection via wireless, you can provide a stronger signal to computers, printers, multifunction devices, and iOS or Android mobile devices that might otherwise be in “dead spots” for wireless coverage.

For devices that have wired network adapters only or have only outdated Wireless-G or older networking, you can use a wireless adapter on a Pi and share it via a network switch with computers or printers and multifunction devices.

Compared to a dedicated ...