I've used some Homeplug gear. Worked fine, until the switch died after several months.
Don't recall the brand. On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Philip J. Hollenback <phil...@pobox.com> wrote: > 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/ > -- Steven Kurylo _______________________________________________ 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/
