From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.20]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2328888 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:40:10 -0500 Message-ID: <49A1D42B.3060509@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:39:39 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081212 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.14 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Wireless Bridges [Was: 3Com wireless card] References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/22/09 04:53 pm, Carl Gehr thus wrote : >>> Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I was talking about a wireless ethernet bridge device, such as the >>>> Netgear ME101 (http://kb.netgear.com/app/products/model/a_id/2496 ) >>>> or the LinkSys WET54G >>>> (http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/WET54G ). >>>> > > Lewis, > Your comments raised another possible application... > > Have you [or anyone] tried to connect a DirecTV DVR to the Internet? > > DirecTV DVRs [HR-21 & HR-22, at least] allows such a connection and, in > fact, requires it for certain On-Demand functions. My particular DVRs > are located where there is no way to connect them to a normal > ethernet->router cable. But, it occurs to me that one of these > 'bridges' that you mention might be a way to get this connectivity. > > The DVRs have ethernet ports. Could one of these wireless devices be > configured to access the Internet via the same Router/AP that I use for > my TPad? > > Just curious... > That sounds like it should work without a problem, once the unit is configured from a computer (likely no browser or keyboard on the DVR). I have Dish Network with older receivers. These require dialup access (yech). -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Treasurer, Warpstock Corporation www.warpstock.org -------------------------------------------------------------