[geeks] [rescue] Fwd: Wifi-Ethernet adapter on SPARC 10

[Nick B]

The way I solved a similar problem was a cheap AP (
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0711VCLG8/) bridging to ethernet.
Nick

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:26 AM Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net>
wrote:

> On 7/16/19 10:05 AM, john wrote:
> > I'd like not to use the Powerline boxes in the new place and wonder if
> > anyone here has had success with one of the wifi-ethernet adapters on
> > one of the old Sun machines?B  I would think that if the adapter was well
> > conceived it would look just like ethernet to the Sun, but then I
> > started to worry about configuration.
>
> I've been trying to use a Wifi-Ethernet adapter to set up a fallback WAN
> route through my phone's 4G LTE connection for when our cable is down.
> It hasn't been going well, not least because the WiFi-Ethernet adapter's
> configuration appears to assume that *naturally* you will have it
> directly plugged into your PC, not into a router port.
>
>
> Anyone have a better idea?
>
>
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