Wireless Bridge

[R0ss]

Just found a reference to this on another board here is the link on ebay: Compact Ethernet to Wireless Bridge for Dish Network - eBay (item 220600464532 end time Jun-03-10 15:49:17 PDT)

is this for real? any idea if it works....

Ross

 

[dishnet_tech]

Just found a reference to this on another board here is the link on ebay: Compact Ethernet to Wireless Bridge for Dish Network - eBay (item 220600464532 end time Jun-03-10 15:49:17 PDT)

is this for real? any idea if it works....

Ross

Looks like it pretty much does what the Dishcomm modem (telephone) or Sling Link (ethernet) does.

 

[David_Levin]

Note that this is not a Powerline Ethernet device. It's a pretty standard Ethernet Bridge. Assumes you have wi-fi setup. Interesting twist to pull power from the USB port, bit if you're using the port for other things.... One of those USB jack Power-Warts could probably power it too.

Not a bad price for a "G" bridge. The usual disclaimers for streaming video over wi-fi apply. It's probably ok for pulling from Internet. But if you're streaming hi-def video around your house (like sling), the wi-fi can be iffy.

 

[Mike_H]

It should work but with the antenna design, I have to wonder how far away it could be from the WIFI router and get good performance. It claims to support 802.11g so that's a plus. Probably good enough for say DishOnline downloads, since it seems Dish is the choke point on those. I've been able stream stuff off of PS3 and Xbox 360 (not netflix though) on a 802.11g network without issue, haven't tied an HD source though.

Personally I have more than one device at my a/v stack that can use internet, so I picked up a Linksys WRT610 and a couple netgear WNDR3300 dual radio routers. I loaded up DD-WRT firmware on all of them and setup a WDS mesh network such that the dish box, ps3, and xbox360 connect to one WNDR3300 and their traffic runs to the WRT610N over the 5Mhz 802.11N radio (200+Mbps) to connect to the web.

The other WNDR3300 is in another room and hooks up one of my kid's computers and some other stuff he is doing.

WIFI devices connect to the WRT610 via its 2.4ghz antenna using 802.11g (54Mbps) and the WDS network talks to itself on the 5ghz antenna using 802.11n.
WDS Linked router network - DD-WRT Wiki