[bmurphy]

Originally Posted by Mark R Penn

Wifi


The thing I'd most like to get on my network is a doorbell!! I have my office in a log cabin at the bottom of the garden. No wireless doorbell I've found yet has the range to make a repeater ring down there, and it'd be a lot of work to run additional cables. I'd like to have a dialogue pop up on my screen when someone comes to the door!

Anyone got any ideas?? !!

I live on a farm, and I've got a doorbell that rings in the house as soon as anyone trips the eye on the driveway coming in (quite annoying when deer do it actually). (Very long driveway) It works through the power grid- so both ends have to be plugged into your power grid. I would imagine that more sophisticated security systems would have something that would connect to a PC. This was a low-cost security answer for me.

[bmurphy]

Originally Posted by Mark R Penn

Wifi


The thing I'd most like to get on my network is a doorbell!! I have my office in a log cabin at the bottom of the garden. No wireless doorbell I've found yet has the range to make a repeater ring down there, and it'd be a lot of work to run additional cables. I'd like to have a dialogue pop up on my screen when someone comes to the door!

Anyone got any ideas?? !!

I live on a farm, and I've got a doorbell that rings in the house as soon as anyone trips the eye on the driveway coming in (quite annoying when deer do it actually). (Very long driveway) It works through the power grid- so both ends have to be plugged into your power grid. I would imagine that more sophisticated security systems would have something that would connect to a PC. This was a low-cost security answer for me.

[wtherrell]

Connected to my WiFi are
Dell laptop
2 Series 2 Tivos
1 HD Tivo
Windows mobile 6 phone. Samsung i760.

WiFi is great but like Windows XP seems to be high maintenance. Great signal when it's working for days at a time but then goes down and requires sequential reboot of everything to start working again

[baker]

HP4155 (well sometimes it works with the router)
Mom & Dad's Laptop (G)
a Daughter's Laptop (Netgear N card)
Boys Desktop (Netgear N adapter, but right now hardwired to router)
a Daughter's old Desktop (Netgear N adapter)
Oldest Daughter's Laptop (G)
Wii
Boys 2-PSPs
HP Printer (hardwired)
my work laptop (G)
Handheld Ninetendo thingie of my oldest son (he claims he has it working now)

Netgear 854T router

[kerrins]

We have WiFi at home, but rarely use it. There's half a dozen computers hooked up, and a 2 TB NAS. We have 802.11N network. We have a couple laptops with connections set up and we have a couple Nintendo DS systems hooked to it. But truth is, we just don't use it. all the rooms are hard wired and have a gigabit switch. It's just easier to be connected to the switch and have fast transfer. Movies are stored on the NAS so most any room in the house can watch movies. We really only set up the wifi so that when the kids have friends over they can study online.

[Pony99CA]

Most of my devices are what I call pseudo-WiFi. They're hardwired into a WiFi bridge, so I guess I can count them.

• Linksys WRT54G router
• Three WiFi bridges (home office, family room, daughter's room)
• Toshiba home laptop (I could just connect it to my router in the same room, but that's one more thing to unplug)
• iPAQ hx2795 Pocket PC (plus dead iPAQ 5550 and iPAQ 3870 with WiFi card in sleeve)
• Two Replay TV boxes via bridges (plus another hardwired and two dead ones)
• HP office desktop via switch/hub connected to bridge
• Cisco VOIP phone via switch/hub connected to bridge
• Brother multi-function printer/fax/scanner via switch/hub connected to bridge
• Sony PS3
• Sony PSP (first day purchase)
• Nintendo Wii

There are also a couple of dead or almost-dead laptops.

I set up my first WiFi network back in summer 2001 because I bought my daughter a Sony VAIO laptop for her 10th birthday and I wanted her to be able to use the Internet without running cable. We still had dial-up back then, so I had an SMC router with a modem inside.

Steve

[nitejeff]

Here is what I have:

Asus EEE PC 1000 (with windows)
HP Laptop
VZW XV6800
Tivo series 2
Nintendo DS

[Mark R Penn]

Originally Posted by bmurphy

I live on a farm, and I've got a doorbell that rings in the house as soon as anyone trips the eye on the driveway coming in (quite annoying when deer do it actually). (Very long driveway) It works through the power grid- so both ends have to be plugged into your power grid. I would imagine that more sophisticated security systems would have something that would connect to a PC. This was a low-cost security answer for me.

Yes, using the power circuit would be possible. Do you have a model/make?

Cheers,

Mark

[Rick76]

My setup includes:

1 x Dell Laptop Latitude D830 15" (Win XP Pro)
1 x HP Laptop 17" (Win Vista Home)
1 x Dell Laptop 14" (Win XP Pro)
1 x Dell Dimension 3000 Desktop (Win XP Home)
1 x eMachines Desktop (Win XP Home)
1 x Brother MFC-685CW All-in-one
2 x iPhones
1 x iPod Touch
1 x AT&T Tilt
1 x Samsung Jack
1 x HTC Touch
1 x iMate Smartflip
1 x iMate PDA2k
1 x x Box 360

[TMAN]

1 x Apple iMac G5
2 x Apple iPhones
3 x Apple TV's w/ Boxee
2 x Apple Airport Express' with AirTunes
1 x Toshiba Tablet PC
1 x Dell Latitude D420
1 x Dell Latitude D620
1 x Sony PSP
1 x Sprint PPC-6700
1 x HP Photosmart C6150 Printer
1 x HTC Advantage

15 Devices Total all connected to an Apple Airport Extreme

[VanHlebar]

I have a linksys router setup at the house and before reading this thread I was thinking that maybe I was a bit overboard, but not anymore.

We have the following:

1 - Linux Server via ethernet
2 - Linux destops via ethernet
1 - MythTV Frontend via ethernet
4 - Linux laptops via wifi
1 - Windows Vista laptop via wifi
2 - Zunes via wifi when I have Windows up and running in a virtual machine
2 - Nintendo DSs
1 - Playstation Portable
1 - XBox 360
2-3 other laptops of friends and kids friends for when they come over to visit.

Currently working on setting up 4 more MythTV front ends in various parts of the house, but those will all be via ethernet.

So yea I was thinking I was a bit overboard, but not after reading some of these posts...We have a lot of traffic but isn't that part of the fun?

-Eric