RE: A quick Ethernet/Wireless straw poll please

["JT @ Home" <Jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Most of the people here have there homes already cabled for cat5 so I
guess another cable isn't that much of an issue.

And if it is, a wired -to- wireless dongle can be had for around 35quid.


I think for the sake of making your project priced in the sensible
bracket, wired would be the way forward.

Just my 2p.

I'd be interested in a touch screen too ;o)
Jonathan.


-----Original Message-----
From: ian.bird@xxxxxxx
[mailto:ian.bird@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 November 2004 15:55
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] A quick Ethernet/Wireless straw poll please

I have read the Circuit Cellar article now and they are using a Rabbit
processor. Rabbit according to the Web supply a wireless CF interface
module complete with code to use it. This dramatically reduces
development
time not to mention my receding hairline.

I did a search on the web and the current off the shelf solutions are
not
for the AVR I am using and are quite expansive. 300 dollars for the dev
kit is one example. Not looking good for a simple solution. Even after
buying a card there is still the interface circuitry and connector to
plug
it all into to consider. It is surprising how quickly the cost and
complexity of a 'simple' solution mounts up.

> is surely going to be backwards compatible (ie 10/100/1000)
I really don't know about this.

Ian







"Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxx>
12/11/2004 12:33
Please respond to ukha_d


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Subject:        Re: [ukha_d] A quick Ethernet/Wireless straw
poll please



You're right about USB WiFi - they are slave devices.

However, the CF cards can be used with microcontrollers - there is an
article in this months Circuit Cellar describing a data logging module
that
communicates using a WiFi CF card.

I don't see a 10Mbit connection being a problem - the bandwidth is
plenty
for this application, and the new faster hardware is surely going to be
backwards compatible (ie 10/100/1000)

Mal







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