tom,
thanks for the offer, but i now live in arizona; not so local.
(its more complicated than that, but close enough.)
i have decided that the path of least pain for me, given
my wireless hub is an airport extreme, is to heed brad's advice
and go with an airport express, coupled with a Dlink DGS-2208 hub.
andrew
On Sep 6, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
I have four 11Mb/s ethernet-over-power boxes which I no longer need.
They didn't work great before but I think I was trying to go across my
fuse box (it wasn't my place, so I couldn't try switching off circuits
to identify them).
Andrew, since you are local let me know if you want them. They can be
had for a bottle of wine.
Tom
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Philip J. Hollenback
<[email protected]> 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"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
Andrew Hume <[email protected]> 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
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