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X ` Man[_3_]

On 8/11/12 12:51 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:53:08 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

On 8/11/12 11:37 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 08:35:01 -0400, Meyer wrote:

That dongle just adds WiFi to a machine
that doesn't have it. This is not a USB repeater that would run a USB
mouse 80 feet away.
I have no problem cloning the monitor and audio of my media machine
all over the house (it is channel 68 on any TV) but no joy on the
pointing device.

Sounds like you need a wireless usb transmitter and reciever hooked up
to a secondary mouse, or a second media machine, or just can the whole idea.

That "wireless USB transmitter/receiver" is the problem.

I've seen a wireless USB hub at one of the computer box stores. I
suppose you plug a dongle into the printer/scanner/whatever USB port and
the USB hub sends and receives signals from a WiFi router. You still
have the same problem, though...if the scanner is distant from where you
are using your computer, you still have to walk over to the scanner to
put your documents on the flatbed.

The cabinet my wife wants to stash her new scanner in is about 12' from
the back of her computer. I measured it. The new cable will work fine,
and no one will notice the cable among the several along the baseboard
in her home office.

Sometimes less complicated is better.

I have seen them but it is a router sized box on both ends and they
are $350-400 a pair. I will go with the $10 powered cable, thanks.

With my experience with wireless in a CBS house, I am not even sure it
would work for me out in the pool bar.

My plan is the powered cable with a blue tooth transmitter on the end
and a blue tooth wireless pointing device/numeric pad.
That is 30' line of sight that will work from the corner of the house.
Another powered cable and a B/T transmitter at the other end of the
house should take care of those rooms. I don't have any block walls
between them.

I've been pleasantly surprised at the range of the signal from my wi-fi
router. Our lower level is 9' of poured concrete floor to ceiling in
most areas and of course the signal travels vertically throughout the
house, but it also travels to the end of the driveway, and that's a
combo of vertical and horizontal and quite a distance from the router as
the bird flies.

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science-denying religious xenophobic corporate oligarchy of modern
Republican conservatism just doesn't work for me or my country.

JustWait[_2_]

On 8/11/2012 2:38 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:59:49 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

On 8/11/12 12:51 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:53:08 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

On 8/11/12 11:37 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 08:35:01 -0400, Meyer wrote:

That dongle just adds WiFi to a machine
that doesn't have it. This is not a USB repeater that would run a USB
mouse 80 feet away.
I have no problem cloning the monitor and audio of my media machine
all over the house (it is channel 68 on any TV) but no joy on the
pointing device.

Sounds like you need a wireless usb transmitter and reciever hooked up
to a secondary mouse, or a second media machine, or just can the whole idea.

That "wireless USB transmitter/receiver" is the problem.

I've seen a wireless USB hub at one of the computer box stores. I
suppose you plug a dongle into the printer/scanner/whatever USB port and
the USB hub sends and receives signals from a WiFi router. You still
have the same problem, though...if the scanner is distant from where you
are using your computer, you still have to walk over to the scanner to
put your documents on the flatbed.

The cabinet my wife wants to stash her new scanner in is about 12' from
the back of her computer. I measured it. The new cable will work fine,
and no one will notice the cable among the several along the baseboard
in her home office.

Sometimes less complicated is better.

I have seen them but it is a router sized box on both ends and they
are $350-400 a pair. I will go with the $10 powered cable, thanks.

With my experience with wireless in a CBS house, I am not even sure it
would work for me out in the pool bar.

My plan is the powered cable with a blue tooth transmitter on the end
and a blue tooth wireless pointing device/numeric pad.
That is 30' line of sight that will work from the corner of the house.
Another powered cable and a B/T transmitter at the other end of the
house should take care of those rooms. I don't have any block walls
between them.

I've been pleasantly surprised at the range of the signal from my wi-fi
router. Our lower level is 9' of poured concrete floor to ceiling in
most areas and of course the signal travels vertically throughout the
house, but it also travels to the end of the driveway, and that's a
combo of vertical and horizontal and quite a distance from the router as
the bird flies.

I can swap data with my neighbor through the window but as soon as you
get a concrete block wall or two involved the range drops to virtually
nothing.
It might be that there is so much steel in our walls and that the
whole thing is grounded.

How far do you need to go? Can't you put it at a high point in the
house. Heck, I am on half acre lots and get a strong signal (encrypted)
from no less than two of my neighbors at any given time. Most likely
from two houses both on about 75 yards from our router and the next
likely candidate over a hundred yards from our router... Our router is
in an office, one story ranch.

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