wireless gizmo help needed

Why would you want to do such a thing? Put the usb hard drive on a real usb port on any computer on your network. Disk data rate would be MUCH faster on the local machine and probably tiwce as fast to any other machine. Wireless is normally half-duplex. You don't want two wireless connections between the drive and the user if you can help it. mike

because i want to access my (network) hard drives wirelessly

i have a few usb hard drives and printers and other things if i could connect them wirelessly i don't have to move them to where my wired/wireless router is nor cable them

i could just plug in the hd's and other gear wirelessly and be able to use them from my wireless laptoptop

etc etc

not quite sure if your statement regarding half duplex is true for all wireless standards or interm standards but even if so wireless n is pretty fast and i've tested my hd over 'b' and it works great i presume as their are so many wireless hd adapters out there they work ok or good enough prob not as overal generally reliable as firewire but

thanks

so question still remains if anyone knows of a wireless device with ethernet and usb and b/g/n please post i'd guess i'd have to support bridge mode

You don't have to move them to where your wireless router is. You have to move them to where ANY computer on your network is. If that happens to be the one that's wired to the router, it will run faster.

If it's shared on the network, it doesn't matter where it is, it will be accessible from your wireless laptop. I have my printer and usb drives and wireless router hard wired to my primary desktop. I can access it all from anywhere.

Any device that can connect arbitrary usb devices into the network is gonna have the equivalent of a computer in it anyway.

There is an emerging wireless usb standard. But that's a whole different configuration issue.

Having said that, I do respect your right to set up your system any way you see fit. Good luck, mike

ml snipped-for-privacy@di.net posted to sci.electronics.equipment:

Just plug your NAS drives and print servers into your wired-wireless router. All inexpensive off-the-shelf.