Internet help.

[don27dog]

I flashed the DD-WRT firmware last night and everything seems to be working fine with the routers about ten feet apart. Will have to wait and see how it works at the new house when they are further apart. Thanks again for the suggestions!

[AJCopland]

The way I do things today... amiga-rpi-wifirouter-internet, each Amiga has its own little raspberry pi mounted inside, connected via serial, ethernet or whatever, and the pi then has USB wifi controller and acts as gateway for the Amiga. This means I can take the Amiga systems anywhere and get them online quite easily.

Hey kolla can you document that? It sounds interesting and like a good solution.

Andy

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I flashed the DD-WRT firmware last night and everything seems to be working fine with the routers about ten feet apart. Will have to wait and see how it works at the new house when they are further apart. Thanks again for the suggestions!

Fantastic! One other thing you can try if you want to squeeze out a little more range is bumping up the transmit power in DD-WRT and using bigger antennas. Back in the day I had a few that were 3' long, stuck up on a pole to run WiFi out to a facility out-building (about 1/4 mile, line of site). Still use a similar method to blanket large areas (I.e., warehouses).  Good luck!

[D00kie]

I am using a Vonets VAP-11g Wireless bridge and that is working great for over a year.
You need a web browser to set it up (I used the laptop - not sure an Ami browser will work).
Once you set up the wireless connection, you can plug it into the Ethernet port and it will transparently send the Ethernet packets over WiFi.

You can buy a separate power adapter to supply power but what I did since I have a towered A1200 was to cannibalise a USB female end and solder the positive and negative 5v from the PSU to the USB connector outer pins and screwed it inside the back of the case and plugged the Vonets USB lead into that. It supplies the 5v needed to run the adapter.

You can get these very cheaply - maybe ten dollars/pounds new.

[Pat the Cat]

Hey kolla can you document that? It sounds interesting and like a good solution.

Andy

+1, nice thinking Kolla.

I am using a Vonets VAP-11g Wireless bridge and that is working great for over a year.
You need a web browser to set it up (I used the laptop - not sure an Ami browser will work).
Once you set up the wireless connection, you can plug it into the  Ethernet port and it will transparently send the Ethernet packets over  WiFi.

You can buy a separate power adapter to supply power but what I did  since I have a towered A1200 was to cannibalise a USB female end and  solder the positive and negative 5v from the PSU to the USB connector  outer pins and screwed it inside the back of the case and plugged the  Vonets USB lead into that. It supplies the 5v needed to run the adapter.

You can get these very cheaply - maybe ten dollars/pounds new.

Even cheaper solution. You can use USB devices sometimes even with Classic Amigas that don't have USB. Like it.