[access-uk] Re: Netgem and wireless networking
- From: "Adrian Higginbotham" <adrian.higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:55:27 +0100
Cheers John - good to know that the route you have gone down works as I
hadn't discovered that route on the NetGem support pages. I'll explore
the relative costs versus availability of supported USB wifi devices on
Ebay of which there appears to be just 4 at present.
Adrian Higginbotham
Accessibility and inclusion adviser
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency - BECTA
Tel: Direct dial 024 7679 7333 - Internal extension #2287
Email: Adrian.Higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.becta.org.uk/
BECTA, Millburn Hill Road, Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7JJ
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of John Gurd
Sent: 14 September 2006 19:29
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Netgem and wireless networking
Hi Adrian
No USB wireless devices apart from those specifically supported will
work with the Netgem. As you said yourself these devices are all
out-of-date but it is possible to find them on Ebay for a fraction of
their original price.
Just as well as they are the older 11mb wireless devices anyway.
I found a different but more costly solution but it did give me a 55mb
wireless connection. Basically I bought one of the supported USB to
ethernet adaptors, namely the Belkin F5D5050u USB 10/100 Ethernet
Adapter from Broadbandstuff UK. I also bought a Belkin F5D7330 Wireless
Ethernet Adapter from the same source. I then set the Netgem up as if it
was connected to a hardwire network through it's USB port, plugged the
USB to ethernet device into the ethernet to wireless device and it all
worked perfectly. I wanted the higher speed because I wanted to stream
mp3's and movies from my PC wirelessly via the Netgem as well as to
access the internet through it.
To be honest the simpler and cheaper solution is to find one of the
supported devices on Ebay. The Netgem only has drivers for these built
in and you can't add drivers to it as a user.
HTH.
John Gurd
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Adrian Higginbotham
Sent: 13 September 2006 13:51
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Netgem and wireless networking
For anyone connecting their netgem I-player+ to your home network via a
wireless connection. Are you doing this using one of the wireless
adaptors recommended on the Netgem forums which are now all superceeded
and difficult to get hold of, or have you found that any USB adaptor
will do the job?
also, has anyone connected more than one USB device to the netgem? E.g
wireless adaptor and pen drive or webcam.
Thanks
Adrian Higginbotham
Accessibility and inclusion adviser
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency - BECTA
Tel: Direct dial 024 7679 7333 - Internal extension #2287
Email: Adrian.Higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.becta.org.uk/
BECTA, Millburn Hill Road, Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7JJ
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