[SunRescue] poor man's wireless ethernet

[Ken Hansen]

Bill - low-cost data transmission is possibe "on the cheap" - check-out Nuts
and Volts magazine, several advertisers there offer low-cost *serial*
wireless modules/assemblies...

The 2.4 GHz A/V transmitters probably don't have sufficient bandwidth/audio
quality *on the audio* to get anything over a regular modem line (obviously,
the video section has bandwidth galore, but how to use it... Hmm. maybe
something could be done by using a couple of those old VCR-data backup
devices that backed up your *massive* 10 Meg Corvus harddrives to a VCR...)

There have been reports of Ethernet bridges (black box that plugs into an
ethernet port on a workstation), but their cost eludes me.

They now make USB 802.11b networking adapters too...

I think the real answer is to wait for the next big price drop in 802.11b
cards and pray Sun sees fit to adopt one of them and develop a driver for
Solaris.

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 4:34 AM
Subject: [SunRescue] poor man's wireless ethernet


> Got this 2.4ghz a/v (left and right audio, video) sender from
> X10, it works great.. but while in a fevered delusion sick in
> bed earlier, I wondered "hrm, wonder if there's anyway to rig
> that to transmit data of some kind... perhaps a modem audio
> stream?"
>
> However, since its one-way-only...

>
> maybe if I had two units.....  and transmitter/receiver on each end...
>
> *cackle*
>
> anybody else thought of this?
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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