I tried a wireless bridge... it sucked... totally.
Want one?...lol
There are some crappy ones out there for sure...but the one I linked is pretty awesome for those just now starting to wonder about how to put their miner on wireless and don't want to jump through a lot hoops to do it.
sure... all helps...
I was not satisfied at all with a bridge, it liked to drop connections randomly...
The laptop's range is like 10x as far, gets waaay better reception, and has never dropped the connection in 6 days so far...
The old WinXP laptop has a wireless that I disabled for testing this RPI router. Since wasn't all too difficult I might try making it the wireless router instead of the RPI. It does only have XP home so auto config is out but with the route command it should be possible.