<div dir="ltr">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).<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 6:33 AM Charl Le Roux <<a href="mailto:charl.leroux@gmail.com">charl.leroux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.takealot.com/tp-link-300mbps-av500-wi-fi-powerline-extender-starter-kit/PLID34147433" target="_blank">https://www.takealot.com/tp-link-300mbps-av500-wi-fi-powerline-extender-starter-kit/PLID34147433</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 at 17:17, Deon Pretorius <<a href="mailto:deon1964@googlemail.com" target="_blank">deon1964@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Get a USB extention cable and stick the dongle to window with Press Stick :)<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cell-c's host less dongle worked very well for me. Think it was a Huawei </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 10 Jun 2018, 4:39 PM Frans de waal, <<a href="mailto:meesterarend@gmail.com" target="_blank">meesterarend@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">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. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 10 Jun 2018, 12:11 Mark Widdicombe <<a href="mailto:markwiddicombe@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">markwiddicombe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Good day folks,<div><br></div><div>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....</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div>Mark</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 June 2018 at 13:44, Bill T <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bturner02.sa@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">bturner02.sa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>- But I have been fairly successful with plugging in cheap
WiFI dongles</div>
<div>- under Ubuntu and they "Just Work". What shocked me...was
that </div>
<div>- I expected the same under OS/X and...*nothing*. It doesn't
recognise</div>
<div>- the USB device at all. Pity...cause I have one of those USB
WiFi devices</div>
<div>- with an detachable antenna that provides better range /
sensitivity.<br>
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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.<br>
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See - <a class="m_2850964176110273035m_-493482930728826768m_8190561644590967289m_4249494570057717840m_-3652026533450977593moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2304522" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2304522</a><br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Can anyone recommend a 'plug & play'
alternative? I'm gatvol of having to jump through
hoops every time I buy new hardware.</div>
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<div>Oh, I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.</div>
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<div>Thanks in advance,</div>
<div>Mark</div>
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