I know I haven’t posted in ages but I thought I should somehow document random useful stuff that I couldn’t find myself on the internet.
Recently I got Dish Network which meant that I acquired DVRs and satellite boxes. You have to plug them into either your phoneline or ethernet port so that the boxes can call home to Dish to make sure everything is legitimate (this seems to be the same with DirectTV also) or else you pay $5.99 a month. Sure the TV by the router in the living room was no problem, right into the ethernet. The TV in our bedroom was another story. Our phone jack hasn’t worked since the house was remodeled and we were way too far from a router. We could run cords but it wasn’t exactly ideal. I thought about bridging a router to communicate back with the router in the living room but couldn’t find an extra one laying around.
Then fate brought a solution. I got a Linksys gaming adapter for about $30 from Woot (refurbished) made for wirelessly connecting your Xbox. You just set up your router settings with your computer (passwords and such), after that’s done you plug in your Xbox and voila it’s connected. Apparently it works with anything that has an ethernet connection, computers, PS2s, etc that you want to wirelessly connect . In my case it worked perfectly for the HD satellite box. It’ll pay itself off in 5 months.
Recent Comments