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Quote from: tommymal83 on May 24, 2014, 12:41:35 PM

Hi guys
could someone please advise me, i have a knc jupiter miner and it doesnt have a wirleless card in it
i am toild there is a way to move it to my garage and have it run wirelessly.with one ethernet cable
coming out of the router into a box, and in the garage from this box to jupiter.problem being i havnt a
clue what the box i need is called. (dont want to use a long ethernet cable)....any help would be great......tommy

Get a wireless range extender with ethernet port or try powerline network extender. If you have an old wireless router it can be set up to act as a wireless range extender.

I think he is saying his miner does not have a wireless nic. An extender will not help. Tommy, what you are looking for is called a wireless bridge. You need two, one at each end to plug in to the Ethernet ports of your router and miner. I would first test with a laptop, tab or phone to verify you can get a good signal from one point to the other. I've worked with the most expensive and the cheapest ones out there, and have to say for a short term solution these $20 units work great.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704048&cm_re=access_point-_-33-704-048-_-Product

For some odd reason DHCP sometimes fails over these units. Set you miner up with static IP address and get it running before moving it to the other end of the bridge. And when I say "short term solution" it is because under constant use the wireless on these cheap things wear out in as little as 4-6 months and begin to drop packets. But then again, its a good fit as your miner will cost more to run than it produces in a few weeks if not already.

You can accomplish the same thing using a laptop with wifi....connect the laptop to the wireless network...BRIDGE the Wifi and Ethernet adapters in windows (highlight both adapters, right click and select "Bridge Connections")...then connect your miner to the wifi laptop via ethernet cable and you now have a WiFi access point WITH a battery backup Wink

You can even use a network switch off your wifi laptop to gain more ports over the single ethernet port.