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Wireless Access Point Question
23-03-2013 12:52 PM
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I have a small NAS for backup purposes in a nearby outbuilding.
I am presently using a AV200 Homeplug solution to connect it to my home network.
Unfortunately due to the presence of RCD's and an armoured cable in the mains feed to the outbuilding, the transfer speed is down to about 15 Mb/s which means backups take many hours. Apparently AV500 Homeplugs will be no better in this setup.
I realise that a cable Ethernet connection is the answer but it would be very difficult to arrange.
As an experiment I set up my laptop in the window of the outbuilding and backed up over wireless to it. This gave me an average transfer speed of more than 40 Mb/s ( the wireless path is though windows).
I therefore thought about using wireless for the link. Could I use a WAP at the outbuilding end and connect it's ethernet port to my NAS ?
I realise I would need to set the WAP SSID with my laptop.
Any thoughts if this would work ?
Oldgeezer.
Re: Wireless Access Point Question
23-03-2013 1:31 PM
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I've got 2 of them, preconfigured to join to my wireless network and they have one ethernet port and USB power.
(there's a mains plug for the USB lead if the device has no spare USB ports to take power from)
So typically I'll be working on a PC, plug the nano in to it using a short ethernet cable and USB (just for power) and you have instant internet!
Less than £20 each, TP-Link TL-WR702N - thay have many uses and about 5 different types of basic configurations.
Re: Wireless Access Point Question
23-03-2013 2:05 PM
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Thanks for your help.
Oldgeezer
Re: Wireless Access Point Question
23-03-2013 4:22 PM
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Quote from: oldgeezer I therefore thought about using wireless for the link. Could I use a WAP at the outbuilding end and connect it's ethernet port to my NAS ?
Any thoughts if this would work ?
Oldgeezer.
It would work - but slowly
Make sure you only backup changes to files.
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Re: Wireless Access Point Question
23-03-2013 4:48 PM
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Unfortunately my (free) backup software doesn't support incremental backups.
If the wireless in a WAP or ethernet adapter is as good as my laptop wireless (nothing special n150) then I may be on to something.
I think it's the inductors (differential current transformers) in the RCD's that does for the poor Homeplug performance as well as the armoured cable with a high capacitance of the cores to the earthed armour.
Anyway I've tried two different brands in a number of different sockets at the house end and can't get above about 15 Mb/s.
oldgeezer
Re: Wireless Access Point Question
23-03-2013 6:18 PM
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We had a similar discussion on an electronics forum and and some people with homemade "cantennas" were getting miles of transmission range with reasonable speeds.
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23-03-2013 6:59 PM
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This will handle incremental backups, including backups where only part of a file has changed.
I use it to backup (incrementally) 100+GBytes - it takes about 3 hours.
That's over homeplugs though.
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Re: Wireless Access Point Question
23-03-2013 7:10 PM
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Quote from: HPsauce Less than £20 each, TP-Link TL-WR702N - thay have many uses and about 5 different types of basic configurations.
HP can those work as repeaters? I need to install a wireless IP camera in a remote location away from our house and need something in the middle to repeat / extent the wifi range between the camera and my router and I'm just wondering if this would do the job?
Also what voltage does it run off any any idea about its current consumption? - If it works well as a repeater I'll need to use a rechargeable battery you see so it would be handy to know in advance so I can find a good battery for it.
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23-03-2013 11:49 PM
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Quote from: Sprite HP can those work as repeaters?
Also what voltage does it run off any any idea about its current consumption?
I'm pretty sure repeater is one of the config options, the manual is on the TP-Link web site.
No idea on power consumption but it presumably runs on 5v or thereabouts.
Re: Wireless Access Point Question
24-03-2013 8:03 PM
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Thanks for posting that HP, you've solved a rather large problem for me by posting about that!
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