Comment by polpo
3 months ago
I don't mind calling the connector an RJ45, but calling this thing an "RJ45 dongle" makes my eye twitch. It's an Ethernet dongle - RJ45 can be used for a lot of other things. For example I've seen "RJ45 dongles" that convert USB to RS232 serial for the console ports on a lot of networking equipment.
At least they didn’t call it a wired WiFi dongle.
I did wired WiFi for CES one year. Made having our iot devices on WiFi on the floor much better than other vendors. It’s a long boring story but it was a fun hack.
I’m actually really interested: I have a piece of stage lighting, that has a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi controller. I’d love to convert this to wired Wi-Fi. Can you share what is necessary to achieve this hack? Can I “just” run antenna cable between router and controller? Or what kind of radio physics needs to be understood?
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Spill!
I now have Forest Whitaker Eye.
But ethernet is also used with different connectors so that wouldn't be specific enough either.
Maybe we can all agree to call them Ethernet over unkeyed 8P8C dongles.
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