On Thursday 05 December 2019 15:01:25 Bruce Layne wrote: > I'd use a USB WiFi dongle for the software upgrades or any other > internet access, and use the ethernet port to control the 7i96. > That would work, except I've a neighbor that bought some sort of a cracker for his phone that can deduce any passwd I set on my wifi's, takes him about 30 seconds to crack the best phrase or a 4096 bit key, then he uses 80 gigs a month of my bandwidth. The cap is much higher than that, but it sure makes my network slow when hes hogging all my bandwidth. So I put up with the cat6 all over the place and the wifi is only turned on when my boys are visiting.
> If you don't want your CNC machine on the internet most of the time, > pull the WiFi dongle. I use my phone as the hotspot for my WiFi > connected CNC machines. It's very convenient, secure, and it avoids > stringing Cat6 cable around the shop. > > On 12/5/19 6:41 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Can that work thru a switch and maintain some modicum of decent > > latentcy? Since very few, and they are getting old, computers have 2 > > ethernet ports, and I consider a net connection a pre-requisite if > > for no other reason than keeping the machine up to date > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
