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 Post subject: N96FY wireless usb question
PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:36 pm 
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Location: Lincs
Weather Station: Maplin N96FY
Operating System: Win7
Hi all I'm new here and have just set up my site, what I'd really like to do is set up a wireless connection between my console and pc. Is there anything out there to do the job, I have seen something like this http://www.everythingusb.com/cables-unlimited-wireless-usb-adapter-kit-15823.html but really wondered if it would work?

I would like to keep my web site upto date and this would really help

Many thanks :)


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 Post subject: Re: N96FY wireless usb question
PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:54 pm 
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Joined: Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:43 pm
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Location: Maghull, nr Liverpool, UK
Weather Station: MyDEL WX2008 Mk2 Fine Offset
Operating System: XP and W7
Hi ?

This has been suggested before and found not to be viable.

I cant remember the details but search the system and you will find many references

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 Post subject: Re: N96FY wireless usb question
PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:51 am 
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Location: Wilmslow, Cheshire, UK
Weather Station: Davis VP2
Operating System: XP SP3, Win 7
That device may well work - it may also introduce another point of unreliablity :( - but am I missing something? I am struggling to see the value. Its effective range seems to be limited to about 15 feet (6x slower than a cable at 10 feet!) - err about the length a decent cable can achieve, and well short of what you can achieve with active cable extenders. So for a fixed installation...?

I think what Phil was referring to was a Bluetooth device someone posted a while back - that was designed for PC to PC communication, not PC to peripheral.

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 Post subject: Re: N96FY wireless usb question
PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:17 am 
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Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2012 12:46 pm
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Location: New Waltham, Grimsby
Weather Station: WH1081
Operating System: Windows 7
Hi,
Just to let you know, I have purchased this item http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage. ... _Id=505301 and I have to say, it works perfectly!
I have the touchscreen reciever in my living room on view and connected via the usb to the home base.
The homebase software is installed on a computer I have set up as a weather server which recieves the data from the home base and sends it to my website http://greenyspace.com/Weather/index.htm which I set to update every 10 mins.


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 Post subject: Re: N96FY wireless usb question
PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 11:26 am 
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Joined: Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:53 am
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Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Weather Station: WH1080 (Alecto WS-4000)
Operating System: Windows 8 64 bits
Good to know, really.
However, rather expensive (about 60 pounds?). And for me not useful. The last time I watched the console was more than two months ago. I consider the console as a black box. I only watch the published webpages (with PC, laptop, smartphone).

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