Does anybody know of a device that you can plug into an ordinary ethernet cable so that the product the ethernet cable is connected to on the other end can get internet access?
Like I just bought a Playstation 3 and the wireless doesn't seem to be working. I can however connect to the internet with a cable. The cable is unconveniently long though. So I am looking for a device that I can just plug into the ethernet cable so my ps3 will get internet access through a wire which is wireless.
Sorry that my description isn't the best but it's hard to describe.
Thanks!
2007-12-26 13:20:58 · 5 answers · asked by Skiier 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
These are called wireless bridges. or wireless gaming adapters. They connect to an ethernet port on your game and then to a wireless router on the other end. Thus replacing the wire with wireless!
Here are some examples
the Linksys Wet54G
http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&cid=1134692497433
or the Dlink
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=569 or
http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DWL-G820-Wireless-Adapter-802-11g/dp/B0002MH3HE
or Netgear
http://www.netgear.com/Products/Adapters/GWirelessAdapters/WGE111.aspx
Do understand you HAVE to have a wireless router at the "other" end for these to work. If your router/modem isn't wireless then you need a wireless router as well. (This may be why your wireless in the unit isn't working.) But since you seem to think it should?
Hope that helps
2007-12-26 13:37:03 · answer #1 · answered by Tracy L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need a wireless router connected to your broadband isp connection. I am not a guru on playstation 3 but I think it is supposed to be "802.11g" compatible which means if you had a standard wireless router hooked up to your ISP service, you should be good to go. any big retailer of consumer electronics should have this available, most of the time they are very simple to set up and come with very good instructions.
2007-12-26 13:33:03 · answer #2 · answered by roadster9879 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That splitter would in basic terms artwork if there became a modem on the different ingredient someplace. you could no longer get internet without the modem, and since the modem linked into that jack... no, you could no longer bypass it.
2016-12-18 09:00:37 · answer #3 · answered by latia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to a electronic store and wat i have is a netgear router and u can plug it in to there and it will work belive me i tried it before
2007-12-26 13:24:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
umm is it a router?
2007-12-26 13:24:50 · answer #5 · answered by Maximus g 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋