Help for beginner to set up Opnsense as repeater

[guest20265]

Good day,

I am currently getting started with Opnsense but I think I am in over my head. The configuration and documentation of it is overwhelming for me and I would be grateful for any help.

Let me describe my situation first. I am sharing my flat with others and our internet is barely usable. Because of this I am using a  public hot spot service of the german Telekom to connect to the internet. It is fairly cheep and there are hot spots in my proximity.
I bought myself this (https://www.kuma.co.uk/products/caravan-usb-wireless-adapter) external wlan antenna which is usb 2.0 compatible to connect to them. On my PC I used Connectify (https://www.connectify.me/) to create a hotspot for the rest of my devices. The software sadly is less than optimal though and this is why I am trying to use Opnsense on an old Laptop instead.

So the setup I am trying to achieve is this: I want to connect my strong external wlan antenna to my Laptop and use it to connect to one of Telekom's public hotspots. Then I want to connect my other devices to my laptop with Wlan or Lan.
Is this setup possible to achieve with Opnsense?

Thank you again for any help!

[bartjsmit]

WiFi support in FreeBSD is rather poor, especially in AP mode.

This fits your bill though: https://www.tp-link.com/uk/products/details/cat-9_TL-WR802N.html

Bart...