On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:10:48 ka1ifq wrote: [...]
The RF side effectively becomes a wireless ethernet bridge to the main wireless router. No wireless NIC drivers, no messing around on the client machine with authentication etc; let the wireless AP client take care of all of that.
Wish I'd thought of it myself...:-)
Yup, sometimes the simlpest things just boggle the mind after you do it.
When I first got the AP (with a usb dongle) I used it with a win machine to get it online until I got a chance to pull a cable, then it sat and I started reading the docs to see what I could actually do with it as an experiment.
The Buffalo was just such a deal ($25 after rebate) that I had to buy it, after I set it up I ended up stacking 2 computers on it and doing Remote Desktop to the WinXP machine thru the switch, one cable vs 2 or 4 with a kvm.
Sounds familiar...we use remote desktop a lot at work and I've been known to do it from my desktop to my laptop (or vice versa) sitting site by side on the same desk, just so I don't have to move between keyboards/mice :-). Just because I could. Then I discovered Synergy, but that is another story...
Sometimes you have everything you need to get the job done, you just don't know it. I learned that from being a Ham..
Mike
Too true. I can definitely relate to that... Cheers, Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== Eleanor Rigby Sits at the keyboard And waits for a line on the screen Lives in a dream Waits for a signal Finding some code That will make the machine do some more. What is it for? All the lonely users, where do they all come from? All the lonely users, why does it take so long?