Psy1280 Am I missing something (seems too easy).
No, it is really that easy, because the Raspbian OS (the OS that runs in the ASIAIR's Raspberry Pi) handles the Ethernet connection for you in ASIAIR.
Connecting the ASIAIR to your router (or an Ethernet switch) is just like connecting your computer or printer directly using Ethernet to the router. They will recognize each other and do the right thing, using industry standard protocols, established since the days of the ARPANET (and wirelessly in ALOHANET).
A WiFi router will then relay the data to its WiFi antenna, and from there, to your tablet -- i.e., you are using the WiFi ability of the router instead of the WiFi ability of ASIAIR.
If you have an iPad, you can even connect the ASIAIR directly through Ethernet, by using an Ethernet-to-Lightning or Ethernet-to-USB-C dongle (depending on the iPad model) and get blazing image download speeds if you buy the 1000 Mbits/sec dongles. You just need to turn on the Ethernet setting in iOS.
The ASIAIR's WiFi implementation (both hardware and software) is just broken (they need to hire someone who understands networking), that is why WiFi does not work for you.
If you use some other telescope controller, like the INDIGO Sky, the WiFi would "just work" also. And INDIGO even has a HTTP port so you can connect a web browser to it to configure it for WiFi Station mode, etc, and at 5 GHz.
With ASIAIR, I use a hybrid approach myself. I place a (eero) Mesh Router node right next to my ASIAIR, and connect the ASIAIR using a short Ethernet cable to this node. The mesh node joins my network, and thus, the ASIAIR looks like it is attached directly to the network, but using the wireless backhaul of the node.
With INDIGO Sky, I simply use its WiFi capability and skip the eero mesh router.
Chen
