wireless gizmo help needed

[ml]

does anyone now of a device that has wireless access at least G and
provide both usb and ethernet?

i want to connect a remotely located printer and usb hard drive to my
wireless net few rooms away

i can find wireless e devices and wireless usb but not one w/both
perhaps i overlooked

anyone know of any??


thanks

 

[mike]

does anyone now of a device that has wireless access at least G and
provide both usb and ethernet?

i want to connect a remotely located printer and usb hard drive to my
wireless net few rooms away

i can find wireless e devices and wireless usb but not one w/both
perhaps i overlooked

anyone know of any??


thanks

Why would you want to do such a thing?
Put the usb hard drive on a real usb port on any computer on your
network.
Disk data rate would be MUCH faster on the local machine
and probably tiwce as fast to any other machine.
Wireless is normally half-duplex. You don't want two wireless
connections between the drive and the user if you can help it.
mike

 

[ml]

Why would you want to do such a thing?
Put the usb hard drive on a real usb port on any computer on your
network.
Disk data rate would be MUCH faster on the local machine
and probably tiwce as fast to any other machine.
Wireless is normally half-duplex. You don't want two wireless
connections between the drive and the user if you can help it.
mike

because i want to access my (network) hard drives wirelessly

i have a few usb hard drives and printers and other things if i could
connect them wirelessly i don't have to move them to where my
wired/wireless router is nor cable them

i could just plug in the hd's and other gear wirelessly and be able
to use them from my wireless laptoptop


etc etc


not quite sure if your statement regarding half duplex is true for
all wireless standards or interm standards but even if so wireless n
is pretty fast and i've tested my hd over 'b' and it works great i
presume as their are so many wireless hd adapters out there they work
ok or good enough prob not as overal generally reliable as firewire
but

thanks

so question still remains if anyone knows of a wireless device with
ethernet and usb and b/g/n please post i'd guess i'd have to support
bridge mode

 

[mike]

because i want to access my (network) hard drives wirelessly

i have a few usb hard drives and printers and other things if i could
connect them wirelessly i don't have to move them to where my
wired/wireless router is nor cable them

You don't have to move them to where your wireless router is.
You have to move them to where ANY computer on your network is.
If that happens to be the one that's wired to the router, it will run
faster.

i could just plug in the hd's and other gear wirelessly and be able
to use them from my wireless laptoptop

If it's shared on the network, it doesn't matter where it is, it will be
accessible from your wireless laptop. I have my printer and usb drives
and wireless router hard wired to my primary desktop. I can access it
all from anywhere.
Any device that can connect arbitrary usb devices into the network is
gonna have the equivalent of a computer in it anyway.

There is an emerging wireless usb standard. But that's a whole
different configuration issue.

Having said that, I do respect your right to set up your system any way
you see fit.
Good luck,
mike

 

[JosephKK]

ml [email protected] posted to sci.electronics.equipment:

does anyone now of a device that has wireless access at least G
and
provide both usb and ethernet?

i want to connect a remotely located printer and usb hard drive
to my
wireless net few rooms away

i can find wireless e devices and wireless usb but not one
w/both perhaps i overlooked

anyone know of any??


thanks

Why would you want to do such a thing?
Put the usb hard drive on a real usb port on any computer on your
network.
Disk data rate would be MUCH faster on the local machine
and probably tiwce as fast to any other machine.
Wireless is normally half-duplex. You don't want two wireless
connections between the drive and the user if you can help it.
mike

because i want to access my (network) hard drives wirelessly

i have a few usb hard drives and printers and other things if i
could
connect them wirelessly i don't have to move them to where my
wired/wireless router is nor cable them

i could just plug in the hd's and other gear wirelessly and be
able
to use them from my wireless laptoptop


etc etc


not quite sure if your statement regarding half duplex is true
for
all wireless standards or interm standards but even if so
wireless n
is pretty fast and i've tested my hd over 'b' and it works great
i
presume as their are so many wireless hd adapters out there they
work
ok or good enough prob not as overal generally reliable as
firewire but

thanks

so question still remains if anyone knows of a wireless device with
ethernet and usb and b/g/n please post i'd guess i'd have to
support bridge mode[/QUOTE]

Just plug your NAS drives and print servers into your wired-wireless
router. All inexpensive off-the-shelf.