Raspberry pi 0 2w running in repeater mode and adding extra wifi dongle

[nitinjs]

Considering the fact that raspberry pi 0 2w supports 2.4GHz 802.11 b/g/n wireless LAN

1. does it support:
   running a Access Point
   and running as a Client for Another Access Point
   simultaneously?

2. running 0w with OpenWRT 24x7x365 at room temperature(close to 35*c),
   will cause any issue? heating up, slow performance etc.

3. I have Alfa AWUS036ACM USB wifi adapter, is it possible to add it in 0w running with OpenWRT? it is 2.4ghz and 5ghz long range adapter

anyone tried?
any pointers will be good for me.

[slh]

@nitinjs

running a Access Point

yes, albeit in a rather limited fashion - this chipset is not designed for this use case, range, speed and maximum number of connecting clients are limited (quite severely so), as are the allowed interface combinations…

@nitinjs

and running as a Client for Another Access Point
simultaneously?

no, hard no for brcmfmac.

@nitinjs

running 0w with OpenWRT 24x7x365 at room temperature(close to 35*c),
will cause any issue? heating up, slow performance etc.

I wouldn't want to rely on it for that purpose, but neither on your 3. option.

@nitinjs

I have Alfa AWUS036ACM USB wifi adapter, is it possible to add it in 0w running with OpenWRT?

yes.

@nitinjs

it is 2.4ghz and 5ghz long range adapter

While this sounds like splitting hairs, there is an important distinction, it's 2.4 GHz XOR 5 GHz, not both simultaneously - in terms of stability and the rest, the same answer from 2. applies.

For wireless AP or repeater usage, a purpose built -even cheap and low-end- plastic wireless AP (starting with e.g. mt7921a (mt7915 wifi or better) or ath79 (ar9280 wifi or better)) will run circles around anything RPi based.

[nitinjs]

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@slh is it the same case with raspberry pi 5?
GL.iNET Flint 2 seems to be best bet
but again same questions for both Flint2 & pi5