There are plenty of sub-$20 USB "g" wireless adapters listed at Newegg. I had picked up an Airlink one at Fry's for $18 some time ago and it works fine. How many machines are you looking to set up?
Making the clients wireless also grants the future flexibility to move the machines anywhere there's power.
Oh, another option, if one of the machines will be always-on or on whenever any of the other machines will need network access, you can always buy a single wireless adapter for it then wire it to a hub/switch for the other machines and let it bridge the networks.
Internet - wireless router - wireless adapter on PC <-> wired Ethernet - switch - other PCs.
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From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:43 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Wireless Networking Options
That starts to get a bit spendy. I knew there had to be some access points
that can go from wireless to wired, I just didn't know what models to look
for. You think the morons at Best Buy would have any idea?
Is the technical term for it "Wireless Bridge?"
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
<ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
Mike skrev:
None of the computers I want to hook up have wireless cards. Is this
possible? Suggestions to get it work?
The easiest way to do so would be buying a WiFi-USB-ethernet thingie for
each of the computers in the garage. If the signal can reach :)
Is this an option?
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