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Comment by polpo

10 hours 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.

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sgerenser  8 hours ago

At least they didn’t call it a wired WiFi dongle.

  • RyJones  5 hours ago

    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.

    • upvota  44 minutes ago

      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?