Cheapest way to get a 2nd network connection
I am trying to help someone with a home office. She has a single ethernet port in this room where she made her office. But she wants to move her network printer into the room. So we need a second ethernet port. For now, I loaned her aa 5-port switch. It seems like overkill. I don't like wasting electricity. What I'd really like is something like a USB dongle that essentially serves as a hub. Something low power, small. Any ideas? If it was my own linux machine, I'd put in a 2nd ethernet card and enable packet forwarding in the kernel. But she wouldn't want me to mess with that. -- -- John G. Heim; jheim@math.wisc.edu; sip://jheim@sip.linphone.org
Hi John,
There is a print server called an IOGear that is about 50$. I think it has 2 ports on it maybe. Otherwise you could get a WAP and do it that way.
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Most network printers have WiFi capabilities that work just as well as if they were on a RJ45 connection.
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Is their a Wifi router in house already?
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