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Unread 23-08-2010, 14:37
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Re: Wireless Classmate

We have done this regularly with our robot. Using the veteran radio, I setup both the 5 GHz channel and the 2.4 GHz channel to the same SSID (not sure if the SSID matters) and the router was able to bridge the connections. The only problem is the DS program does not setup the wireless IP automatically, so that has to be done manually. We have had no stability problems with this, and it has actually worked better than wired for us because of our ethernet port being broken

If you want to go even more portable, the router can use the bridge power and be put on the robot, or if you (like us) cannot fit the bridge on your bot, the router uses the same power supply shape as the IFI OIs, so you could sacrifice one of those and put battery connectors on it (we already had one like that). As long as you keep it near the bot, full wireless shouldn't be a problem
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