Wireless connection.

[Maker1970]

Has anyone pulled off a wireless Ethernet connection with a controller. The CR Onsrud Retrofit I'm doing would be well served to not have to trip over cable going the the machine. What is the connection speed needed for the acorn board? I am wanting to try using a point to point wireless bridge to do this.

Any help would be appreciated?

[centroid467]

Many things are possible but somethings are strongly not recommended. I believe we are using 100 BASE-T speeds for the communications but I would be worried about latency and lost packets using wireless for this.

Is the console moveable on a cart or something like that? It might be better to do some kind of elevated run of the cables that allows a reasonable range of motion around the machine.

[ShawnM]

Many things are possible but somethings are strongly not recommended. I believe we are using 100 BASE-T speeds for the communications but I would be worried about latency and lost packets using wireless for this.

Is the console moveable on a cart or something like that? It might be better to do some kind of elevated run of the cables that allows a reasonable range of motion around the machine.

You meant "STRONGLY NOT RECOMMENDED" didn't you?

The Onsrud routers I 've seen and worked on all had either a movable control station or the control cabinet built into the frame with an operator panel mounted on an arm which is part of the machine. Most industrial routers are this way so the PC would be integrated into the machine somewhere so no worries about an ethernet cable to trip over.

[Maker1970]

This retrofit has, as the only items leaving the machine as power, air and ethernet cable for the pc. I may experiment with a wireless connection for what it costs to do so. I definitely understand the reliability issues that could arise, hence the reason for the inquiry. The solution may be to have the pc on a cart near a wall and the wireless MPG. Some major shop reconfiguring coming due to the size of this monster.

I had a look at one of the machines I have an acorn in and it says that adapter is running at 100mbps. That is a fairly easy speed to maintain. If I can achieve reliability at that speed, I would be pretty excited about it.

Honestly I'm more worried about the ATC configuring at this point. Unventured territory.....

[suntravel]

I also prefer to plug in the WLAN cable

Uwe

[ShawnM]

Just build a 1L PC into the cabinet and put a monitor and keyboard on a swivel arm on the machine and be done. You are just asking for trouble with wireless. Did it ever occur that there's a reason no one is doing this?