The size of a large dongle, the adapter is designed with flexible power configuration. It accepts DC power from 5-15v, and is specially designed for use with a variety of devices. This device was manufactured in March 2014, and is version 5.0.0. This is a relatively old-school device, supporting 802.11g (54Mbit/s) standard, requiring 802.11n access points to operate in backwards compatible mode. This device is produced by Shenzhen HouTian Network Communication Technology and set me back just AU$20 from eBay. Of course, that’s still fairly complicated, requiring a separate power supply and sizeable box … so I was on the look-out for something smaller that could work for one device.Įnter the Vonets VAP11G wireless bridge. Nowadays, wireless bridges are rarer to find, with some fairly expensive gaming-oriented devices for hooking up consoles, but can still be made from a router running DD-WRT or OpenWRT. They were a standalone device, similar to a router in size, with an Ethernet port and a Wi-Fi card. In the early days of Wi-Fi, where integrated Wi-Fi functionality was less common, wireless bridges were easy to come by. What do you do when you have some device that only supports wired-Ethernet, but it’s going to be deployed in a place where it isn’t practical to install cabling? Well, the easy solution is to use Wi-Fi, through a device known as a wireless bridge.
