Perhaps this is just terminology. Say you are in a hotel, with wifi access through “Hotel WIFI”. If you use the router as a repeater, then it is rebroadcasting Hotel WIFI and you log your devices into that wifi and get an IP on that network, perhaps having to pay for each device. If you use the router as a router, then only the router logs into Hotel WIFI and your devices log into Router WIFI, and get an IP on the router’s own network, perhaps going through the router’s VPN.
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