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Hi to the Forum!

Following some problems mentioned here:
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=9845
concerning my Edimax wireless and my R.Pi, I decided to reconnect the wired cable to my router to see if this would improve things.
Yes it did!!
So I start to think about another solution, as having a wired connection by my main computer is a no no because I listen to the HF radio band a lot. The interference is just awful!
Before anyone says about the external USB hub, I have tried this and it made no difference!
So I started to think about having an external wireless unit which my R.Pi RJ45 connection could plug into then the wireless unit, with its own power, would send on to my main network.

My question is would a wireless access point unit be the best choice for this?
This way I can keep the RJ45 cable very short so it should not interfere with my Radio!

Would be most grateful for any thoughts or pointers.

Most Kindest Regards,

Andrew.

Andrew, I am also using a RPi B with meteohub, and a USB webcam plus a PiHut WLAN USB adaptor. The weather console and webcam are on an unpowered USB hub. It all works (most of the time at least), I am still shaking the bugs out of the system . I have been restarting things a lot as I experiment, this has meant frequent recomputation of the data which does add quite a load on the poor RPi. Once that is over it does seem to be fine and uploads the graphs on my website OK.

The wifi has not very far to travel to an Apple airport express unit which relays the main wifi from the AirPort Extreme base station down stairs. Incidentally the airport express does have an Ethernet port and that connects to an Epson printer, as I have no wired Ethernet upstairs, everything in the house is wireless.

As I explained to Boris, I had hoped to use the B+ In place of the B, but have failed so far to get a running meteohub system with that. Just wish they had kept the SD card size the same. I will see how the model B settles down and if it is reliable enough with the SD Card, though I would have preferred to have the data stored on my HDD, perhaps I can sync it there?

At least it is an easy matter to reboot the RPi and it starts meteohub automatically again, unlike my previous system with an Asus eeePC running Ubuntu and then a VM running meteohub, which was painful to reboot. Then I had to remember to restart the webcam software as well. Not something I could ask my partner to try if I was not around to do it myself.

I was amazed that the cheap USB HDD I used never faltered in 4 years of continuous use on the old system.

The eeePC has become very tempremental, it seems to cook Lithium ion batteries and destroy AC adaptors and the cmos backup battery has now gone, so an RPi was a cheaper solution all round.

David

Hi David,

Thank you very much for your thoughts and insight.
This will be most helpful.

Best Regards,

Andrew.