Has anyone brought up the alternative of using Homeplug networking over your house wiring instead of a wireless bridge? I've been considering that option as well for connecting my directv boxes to the internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeplug P. On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:14 +1000, "Daniel Pittman" <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote: > Andrew Hume <and...@research.att.com> writes: > > > for my home network, i want to connect my kids pc's to my home network. the > > transport from the access point to their pc's is wifi, but for > > unsatisfactory reasons, the wifi adapter cards for their pc's are a bust. > > so i thought to get a (unknown term - maybe bridge) that is a wifi at one > > end and ethernet at the other. > > > > is bridge the right term? > > Yes. > > > and can anyone specifically recommend a brand or disrecommend a brand? > > Yeah: the Linksys WET54G is pretty good at 802.11[bg] bridging. I think > they > still mostly sell it to connect "game consoles" to the network, but it is > an > Ethernet port and a wireless network *client* in a little box. > > They work just fine for getting an Ethernet-only device attached to > wireless > without much complexity, and given how commodity the service is these > days > pretty much any vendor who offered a similar device would probably be > good. > > They are usually single Ethernet port devices, but you could attach a > switch > without any huge hardship or anything. > > > Alternately, USB wireless things usually work fairly robustly on Windows > or > MacOS-X hosts, so they might be an alternative to otherwise investing in > such a device. > > > i am contemplating a linksys wrt54gl > > That is a wireless "Access Point" device, and I don't off-hand know if > the > stock firmware can act as a client. It probably can, though. > > Daniel > -- > ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ dan...@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 > ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lopsa.org > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- Philip J. Hollenback phil...@pobox.com www.hollenback.net _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
