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by Wowfunhappy 2761 days ago
My understanding was that this always requires an entire second wifi module? On my big expensive desktop computer, I can only ever recieve or broadcast a wifi network, never both. Unless I install an additional wifi adapter.
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arthurfm 2761 days ago
The Pixel 3/3 XL (and several other Android smartphones) can run both a hotspot and Wi-Fi simultaneously. [1]

I could be wrong, but I am fairly sure these phones only have a single Wi-Fi module.

[1] https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/11/03/pixel-3-3-xl-suppor...

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gregmac 2761 days ago
My first thought was perhaps this could be done using 2.4 for one and 5ghz for the other, but while I was trying to find an example of configuring the radios independently, I came across DD-Wrt "Repeater Bridge" mode [1] so I don't see why that wouldn't be what the Pixel is doing.

[1] https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Repeater_Bridge

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oneplane 2761 days ago
Probably a special chipset or driver that is not freely available.
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