Wireless network adapters for TVs?

[Support Monkey]

This all seems a bit OTT - maybe there's a good technical reason but why can't you get an ethernet plug with a wireless dongle attached for £10 - I'm thinking just like the USB ones but ethernet instead?

Some of those bridges look closest but still not as simple.

Usb can run power to your wireless dongle, Ethernet does not,

[doodab]

This all seems a bit OTT - maybe there's a good technical reason but why can't you get an ethernet plug with a wireless dongle attached for £10 - I'm thinking just like the USB ones but ethernet instead?

Well, to do that you need pretty much everything that is in a WiFi dongle + some extra memory and processing capacity to allow it to build up a database of MAC addresses, filter packets based on MAC address, store and forward packets etc. You also need a power supply.

You can actually pick all of this up for around £20-30.

TP LINK 54Mbps Wireless Access Point (TL-WA500G) - dabs.com

[d000hg]

Ah, I was envisaging it just 'beaming' ethernet wirelessly without having to do all that other stuff. Guess ethernet just doesn't bend that way

[FarmerPalmer]

I just replaced my wi-fi to the lounge with an ethernet over power (ebuyer 200mbps ... 1000mbps wasn't available at that price at the time) because I was finding iplayer over wi-fi wasn't good - no problems now though.

So personally I'd take the power over ethernet route, unless you live close to a radio ham.

[gingerjedi]

I just replaced my wi-fi to the lounge with an ethernet over power (ebuyer 200mbps ... 1000mbps wasn't available at that price at the time) because I was finding iplayer over wi-fi wasn't good - no problems now though.

So personally I'd take the power over ethernet route, unless you live close to a radio ham.

I think I’m going to do the same, I moved a PC into the dining room and bought a Belkin N300mbps dongle (just to future proof) but the signal was poor even the though the ‘G’ router was only 4m away and through one wall.

Reading the gumph about ‘N’ having greater range and a stronger signal than ‘G’ I just upgraded to a D-Link N300mbps router, I’m seriously pissed off that the signal is no better. Maybe the dongle is the weak link??

I’m sure wireless is fine in modern houses with paper thin walls but no good for me.

Saying that, my mother lives in a Victorian house with foot thick stone internal walls and her cheapo orange box has no trouble communicating with her IPTV 15m away through 2 walls.