[Info-vax] Dozy question alert

[Rich Jordan]

On Saturday, September 7, 2019 at 11:25:18 AM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> In article <c4fd1ea1-8d82-40aa-8e3e-2f2493ce7469 at googlegroups.com>,
>  <thedavegray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Anyone managed to get a Alpha or VAX to use a WiFi card/dongle or successful ly used Powerline adaptors?  
> 
> 1. No, but there are devices out there intended for gamers that will act
> as a client on a WiFi network and have an ethernet port that you can plug
> your computer into, for machines that have no WiFi.
> 
> 2. Ethernet over powerline is evil and unreliable.  Stay away.
> 
> 3. What is wrong with a hardwired cable?  Cable just works.
> --scott
> -- 
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

I've been using powerline ethernet (Netgear, originally 12Mbps, then 200Mbps, soon 500Mbps) to tie upstairs computer room to the cable service downstairs for many years.  Also for tying individual security netcams around the house into the net.  Zero troubles; the only shortcoming is that if you lose utility power then the powerline ethernet goes down  and we fall back to lower speed wifi using a WRT54G on a UPS as a bridge for upstairs.