Mac wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:50 pm I am thinking of going the same route with the USB Extender and almost purchased one yesterday until I saw your first post in this thread.
Glad you have it worked out and big thanks to James for the solution.
How far will this work on ethernet Steve, do you know?
I have a 100' Cat5 cable that will work to the spot in the yard where I image, but is that too long?
I found the answer, up to 165' which is awesome. Going to order these. If I use APT and the laptop I can use this and if using the Raspberry Pi, I will plug it into the ethernet port vs. using wifi.
Hi Mac,
As you can tell from this thread, I'm not an expert in this area. However, one experience I had was that this ethernet extender didn't work on all of the laptop USB ports. My laptop has three USB inputs. I tried it on the first input and it didn't work. I tried it on the second input and it worked. I never tried the third one. Maybe this is common, don't know. I'm just glad it worked on at least one of them! Good luck with yours.
Cheers,
Steve