[ubuntu-za] Wi-Fi

Mon Jun 11 08:35:41 UTC 2018

Powerline.  Are brilliant.  Except.  They run hot and seem to fail within
about a year, and are not that cheap to replace.  I've been through 3-4
TP-link units, and...eventually re-discovered a UTP run I put from one end
of house to the other back in the days before all this fancy WiFi and
powerline stuff (like, when we had a 33.6K modem).

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 6:33 AM Charl Le Roux <charl.leroux at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Another option is a powerline adapter.   TP-link makes one that works
> great.  You plug it into your wallplug at the router, and another adapter
> in your office upstairs.  It establishes a network between the two
> devices.  You plug ethernet in on both ends and voilla, you don't have to
> run the ethernet cable.
>
>
> https://www.takealot.com/tp-link-300mbps-av500-wi-fi-powerline-extender-starter-kit/PLID34147433
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 at 17:17, Deon Pretorius <deon1964 at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Get a USB extention cable and stick the dongle to window with Press Stick
>> :)
>>
>> Cell-c's host less dongle worked very well for me. Think it was a Huawei
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 10 Jun 2018, 4:39 PM Frans de waal, <meesterarend at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi mark I would like to recommend the tplink access point too for about
>>> R350 for their cheapest moddel you get a 5port 100mbs switch and better
>>> reception @ the office, we have currently a microtik groove accespoint an a
>>> tplink @ the office for connecting the pc's without wifi, the office is
>>> about 100m from the microtik we have good network speeds an signal is
>>> acceptable.
>>>
>>> On Sun, 10 Jun 2018, 12:11 Mark Widdicombe <markwiddicombe at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good day folks,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the replies. I finally got the wifi dongle to work, but it's
>>>> quite flaky; the signal up here in my office isn't great, so it's time for
>>>> the hammer and staples, but that's a project for next weekend....
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again,
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>> On 9 June 2018 at 13:44, Bill T <bturner02.sa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 09/06/2018 13:13, Søren Aalto wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> <SNIP>
>>>>>
>>>>> - But I have been fairly successful with plugging in cheap WiFI dongles
>>>>> - under Ubuntu and they "Just Work".  What shocked me...was that
>>>>> - I expected the same under OS/X and...*nothing*.  It doesn't recognise
>>>>> - the USB device at all. Pity...cause I have one of those USB WiFi
>>>>> devices
>>>>> - with an detachable antenna that provides better range / sensitivity.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have 3 wifi dongles - a ZIXA model number unknown, ZyZEL model G-202
>>>>> both of which are quite old and a TP-Link model TL-WN725N which is quite
>>>>> new. All of them worked out of the box on a number of operating systems. My
>>>>> main desktop runs LinuxMint 18.3 but I have used all of them on Windows 7,8
>>>>> and 10, MX17, Debian Jessie, Ubuntu 16.04, Voyager 16.04 (Xubuntu really)
>>>>> and more. I don't understand why you are having problems but a bit of
>>>>> Googling indicates that the model you have is not well supported in 16.04.
>>>>> Look for replacing it with the one above.
>>>>>
>>>>> See - https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2304522
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill Turner
>>>>>
>>>>> <SNIP>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 at 11:34, Mark Widdicombe <markwiddicombe at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Good day all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My desktop needs wifi on account of the flakes from Vodacom
>>>>>>>> installing my new router downstairs in my house, and I am reluctant to run
>>>>>>>> ethernet from there to my office upstairs. I bought a tp-link wifi dongle
>>>>>>>> (AC600) and have spent most of the morning on Google trying to get drivers
>>>>>>>> to get it to work, but without any luck.  I'm not prepared to waste any
>>>>>>>> more time on it, so I'm going to return it on Monday.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can anyone recommend a 'plug & play' alternative? I'm gatvol of
>>>>>>>> having to jump through hoops every time I buy new hardware.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Oh, I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>>>>> Mark
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