Re: A quick Ethernet/Wireless straw poll please

["John Andrews" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian

I went for a different approach:

First a 8inch touch screen for £149 (touch screen is USB) - item new and
1024 x 768
Second a USB2 to VGA convertor and ran it as a third / fourth monitor of my
main server (cost $89)

So it does not really cost that much, and a much simpler approach.

Links:
LCD 8" touchscreen: http://tinyurl.com/6tstu
See2 USB2: http://tinyurl.com/4bwkn

Tech: USB2 can be taken to 5 metres without issue, then you need extenders.


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From: <ian.bird@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 10:23 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] A quick Ethernet/Wireless straw poll please


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> Hi everyone
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> I am building an HA touch screen controller for wall mounting which
will
> have an Ethernet interface for communication to the rest of the world.
> This will run a menu system which will send text based messages over
> Ethernet e.g. xAP, xPL, home-brew etc. + a lot more functionality.
> Currently this has a simple 10Mbit CAT5 interface.
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> Now, my questions are........
> 1) If you were going to use one of these systems how highly would you
rate
> a wireless 802.11b interface?
> 2) Since the hardware to make this a reality costs money what would
you
> think is a reasonable extra amount to pay for wireless? A finger in
the
> wind guess would be about 80 pounds extra (on top of the original
units
> estimated price) for the wireless versions. If I do fit wireless I
would
> not produce a non wireless version as supporting two interfaces would
be
> too expensive and complicated.
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> If I did go wireless my units would have a 10/100 wired CAT5 interface
OR
> wireless 802.11b (but not both at the same time). This would be
software
> configurable somehow.
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> Opinions or thoughts folks?
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> Ian
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