user37810: I have bought a ESP8266 wifi shield and I want to use it hotspot, I have tried the examples that have been provided in Arduino IDE, and the shield is getting connected to my network and giving me a wifi but without internet access (like I can connect my phone to the shield but I cannot browse the internet).
Any suggestion please?
Thanks......

user20513: Connecting through the ESP8266 to the internet would require the ESP8266 to handle Network Address Traversal and/or routing, which is not officially supported.
However, if you are prepared to do a lot of work, it can be done. The performance and reliability is bad, but it can be done. See http://bbs.espressif.com/viewtopic.php?t=960 Note that this will require far more skills than running the examples in the Arduino IDE.

37810: <p>I have bought a ESP8266 wifi shield and I want to use it hotspot, I have tried the examples that have been provided in Arduino IDE, and the shield is getting connected to my network and giving me a wifi but without internet access (like I can connect my phone to the shield but I cannot browse the internet).
Any suggestion please?</p>

<p>Thanks......</p>
 20513: <p>Connecting through the ESP8266 to the internet would require the ESP8266 to handle Network Address Traversal and/or routing, which is not officially supported.</p>

<p>However, if you are prepared to do a lot of work, it can be done. The performance and reliability is bad, but it can be done. See <a href="http://bbs.espressif.com/viewtopic.php?t=960" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://bbs.espressif.com/viewtopic.php?t=960</a> Note that this will require far more skills than running the examples in the Arduino IDE.</p>
