Guest glynton Posted December 31, 2003 Report Posted December 31, 2003 I have a Lacie USB 2 hardrive, is there anything i can buy that i can plug in to make it a wireless drive?
Guest idavid Posted December 31, 2003 Report Posted December 31, 2003 havent heard of anything, but bear in mind quite how slow it would be! :shock:
Guest glynton Posted December 31, 2003 Report Posted December 31, 2003 11Mbps is ok... it's enough to stream a video
Guest zeta101 Posted January 1, 2004 Report Posted January 1, 2004 a quick google shows that these people seem to have done something: http://www.martian.com/ but thier site seems to be down at the moment...
Guest mcwarre Posted January 1, 2004 Report Posted January 1, 2004 a quick google shows that these people seem to have done something: http://www.martian.com/ but thier site seems to be down at the moment... Too busy dismantling Beagle 2 ??
Guest ClintEastman Posted January 15, 2004 Report Posted January 15, 2004 You need a netgear wireless router, with USB port. http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx...page=552&head=1
Guest Matt Whitfield Posted January 23, 2004 Report Posted January 23, 2004 You need a netgear wireless router, with USB port.http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?page=552&head=1 Hey, now that is cool! 8)
Guest NikLP Posted February 18, 2004 Report Posted February 18, 2004 If you think that's cool, you should see what they're doing at sveasoft.com. Only running a cut-down version of Linux on the FlashROM of a Linksys WRT54g Wireless Router...!! The mind boggles. Then you think... well I could plug a USB drive into that...! Mobile wireless web services & other bonkers ideas!! Maybe.
Guest glynton Posted February 18, 2004 Report Posted February 18, 2004 do u have a link to that article?
Guest NikLP Posted February 19, 2004 Report Posted February 19, 2004 Apparently... This is all a bit seemy, because the wireless in-house box doesn't quite function the same way as the wireless routers. My buddy is a bit of an expert on these things (like, total hacker) and tells me that on a linksys box there's actually room on the PCB for a USB port, but the chips etc are not mounted, as this would then negate the need to buy their other products (ie they would be shooting themselves in the foot). My money is on this solution: Wait a year or two - someone will bring out a wireless solution that features full synchronous communication (2 wireless channels simultaneous) including USB and LAN ports. Then you will be able to network a USB drive over wireless using the Linux on-board firmware solution I mentioned above. If you set up a network of these wireless setups you have a distributed file sharing network. Over wireless(!) You can of course perform the same task now using setups of two wireless boxes networked over LAN, but would require one/many external machines networked in to share files (due to current lack of USB drive support).
Guest glynton Posted February 19, 2004 Report Posted February 19, 2004 hmmm... this seems all very complicated.. i guess the most simple way will be to get a cheap bare-bones pc, stick linux on it, and then use it to share the USB ahrd drive on a wireless network. I'm not currently a Linux user.. .but what's linux's wireless networking like?
Guest NikLP Posted February 20, 2004 Report Posted February 20, 2004 Linux is complicated. It's hard. If you know all about it, then fine. Otherwise, you can learn (I am, cos I wanna be a geek! :) ) but it does involve WORK. If not, it doesn't really matter, you can just as easily do the same job with a Win machine. There isn't really any difference per se between wireless networking on a Linux box versus a PC box. Networking is networking, wireless or not - although obviously there are other things that come into play when wirelessing. End users don't need to worry too much about anything wireless other than 1) can they 'see' the access point on the network and 2) what's the signal like.
Guest idavid Posted March 15, 2004 Report Posted March 15, 2004 heres something... http://www.asus.com/news/2004/20040311.htm
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