WiFi Connection Delivered To Ethernet Port?

6 Feb 2009 3:13 PM

PeteCresswell

I tried this in comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip, but haven't
gotten
any responses.
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Got a box that understands Ethernet, but doesn't do USB.

What I'm looking for is a device that delivers a WiFi connection
to an Ethernet receptacle instead of a USB port.

To Wit:
http://tinyurl.com/cz3c25 seems to do it but it reads like they
come in pairs.

OTOH, I've already got one of these puppies:
http://tinyurl.com/3utbs4 so the first choice would be a remote
unit that connected with it and delivered the connection via an
Ethernet cable.

The brass ring would be it's not needing a separate power brick
(i.e. getting it's power from the Ethernet plug). Not a must,
but a strong nice-to-have.

The box in question is a SageTV HD200 "Media Extender". Think
remote access to a Tivo. I'm hearing that a full HD stream is
about 20mbps... so it seems like there sb an alternative to
pulling cable for at least one TV in the house.

6 Feb 2009 3:58 PM

David B.

Actually what you want would be something like this, it's designed to
connect a standard networkable device to an existing wireless network, used
for XBoxes and such.
http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DWL-G820-Wireless-Adapter-802-11g/dp/B0002MH3HE

Not likely your going to find a device without a power supply, getting power
over ethernet is called POE, and AFAIK you can't get power from a network
card in a device like that, but I could be wrong.

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"PeteCresswell" <PeteCr***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I tried this in comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip, but haven't
> gotten
> any responses.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Got a box that understands Ethernet, but doesn't do USB.
>
> What I'm looking for is a device that delivers a WiFi connection
> to an Ethernet receptacle instead of a USB port.
>
> To Wit:
> http://tinyurl.com/cz3c25 seems to do it but it reads like they
> come in pairs.
>
> OTOH, I've already got one of these puppies:
> http://tinyurl.com/3utbs4 so the first choice would be a remote
> unit that connected with it and delivered the connection via an
> Ethernet cable.
>
> The brass ring would be it's not needing a separate power brick
> (i.e. getting it's power from the Ethernet plug). Not a must,
> but a strong nice-to-have.
>
> The box in question is a SageTV HD200 "Media Extender". Think
> remote access to a Tivo. I'm hearing that a full HD stream is
> about 20mbps... so it seems like there sb an alternative to
> pulling cable for at least one TV in the house.

6 Feb 2009 4:46 PM

PeteCresswell

On Feb 6, 10:58 am, "David B." <m***@nomail.net> wrote:
> Actually what you want would be something like this, it's designed to
> connect a standard networkable device to an existing wireless network, used
> for XBoxes and such.http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DWL-G820-Wireless-Adapter-802-11g/dp/B00...
>
> Not likely your going to find a device without a power supply, getting power
> over ethernet is called POE, and AFAIK you can't get power from a network
> card in a device like that, but I could be wrong.

Thanks! Sounds like the term-of-art is "Wireless Gaming Adapter".

Unless something comes up in the next day or two, I think I'll try one
of these:
http://tinyurl.com/d8g6lk (" LINKSYS WGA600N IEEE 802.11a/b/g,
IEEE802.11n Draft Ethernet Port Dual-Band Wireless-N Gaming Adapter")

Same brand; they seem to claim the same "N" standard: "Draft 2.0"....
maybe I'll get lucky... -)

7 Feb 2009 3:24 AM

Doug

PeteCresswell wrote:

> On Feb 6, 10:58 am, "David B." <m***@nomail.net> wrote:
>> Actually what you want would be something like this, it's designed to
>> connect a standard networkable device to an existing wireless network, used
>> for XBoxes and such.http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DWL-G820-Wireless-Adapter-802-11g/dp/B00...
>>

Once upon a time hotels that had installed Wi-Fi loaned such devices to
guests whose PCs only used Ethernet. Several hotels told me it was
called a bridge, but I'm not sure that's correct.

21 Feb 2009 6:56 PM

(PeteCresswell)

Per PeteCresswell:

>
>Thanks! Sounds like the term-of-art is "Wireless Gaming Adapter".
>
>Unless something comes up in the next day or two, I think I'll try one
>of these:
>http://tinyurl.com/d8g6lk (" LINKSYS WGA600N IEEE 802.11a/b/g,
>IEEE802.11n Draft Ethernet Port Dual-Band Wireless-N Gaming Adapter")
>
>Same brand; they seem to claim the same "N" standard: "Draft 2.0"....
>maybe I'll get lucky... -)

FWIW, I went with D-Link's DAP-1522 and it's been working several
weeks now with zero problems.

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