The Saturn just survived it's first power outage...was only 3 seconds(A storm here), but that's dangerous in itself...the miner auto-rebooted, auto-connected & started re-hashing just fine...
You were trying to configure wireless via bridge. You succeeded I hope. I want to do something similar but not just protect my miners, I think I'll have [cable docsis modem] --> Linksys (Cisco) E900 wirelessly transmitting --> an access point or bridge of some kind immediately next to it --> another Linksys (Cisco) E900 which will feed my network, miners, tablets and computers. The separation of hardwire cable in between the docsis -> first E900 and the AP or bridge will protect against a high voltage in via the cable. Won't protect my TV tho.
What worked, was using the laptop's wireless connection to access the hotspot as a server, enabling DHCP, assigning it an address, then running an ethernet cord to a regular ethernet switch, where my desktops & miners are all connected using I.P.'s all assigned within the same range, using the laptop's connection as the gateway. This also allowed me to move the laptop right next to the android, in the kitchen, when the ethernet switch is here in the livingroom, works excellent
*anyone who tries this should know to do all I.P. sniffing from the server(Laptop)
Sounds great. Are the devices on the ethernet swtich on the same network as the laptop's wireless?
Or different networks and the laptop routing data from the one network to the other? And if this latter, does it take any software not typically found on WinXP?
no software, all my computers are running windows 8, and it was done using the normal network & sharing center access window under "Change adapter settings" and simply change the IPV4 settings(on clients) to an IP within your servers range... meaning if your server's address is 123.231.213.1. yor clients addresses can be anywhere from 123.231.213.2 to 123.231.213.255, except 123.231.213.1. Doing this allows any computer with any access to the web to become a server to as many as 254 ethernet devices in that network... PS3's, XBOX, computers, miners, etc.
Server = DHCP on (but manually assign address anyway)
This way allows you to quickly scan a range with the IP scanner, and access the gui to change the address to what you want within that range
Clients = DHCP OFF (manually assign address)
Miners = DHCP OFF (they are clients) also manual
XBOX & PS3 are fully automatic in connecting.
Assigning an IP to your miner isnt a requirement, but doing so allows you to bookmark the miner's IP, so whenever you experience a network failure, or power outage, it will always return to that address, so you never have to use the IP scanner again, and can save your putty session, so you dont have to type in the IP address every time you re-boot for any reason. The miner will have DHCP on by default in the GUI. You just uncheck the box, assign the ip to the miner, plug in your servers ip address as the gateway & DNS server, and the subnet mask, hit save & wahlah, you are set to return to that IP if/when anything happens. it's not necessary to reboot for this to be programmed into the GUI; just "apply"
admittidly..."I'm no genius", it took 3 different outside specialists, and a good night's sleep to figure that out.... I got the miner at about 2pm that day, and spent about 18 hours on it, and finally went to bed angry at the world... but when I woke up in the morning, had a cup of coffee & cranked everything back up, it took me about ten minutes to find out I had more problems than just the IP address, because the miner was not connecting at all due to a bad username on the pool. So, after a few attempts, the IP would just go dead because cgminer would make a few attempts, and quit running, but still have the app running a dead instance of cgminer....and sniffing becomes almost impossible. I was only able to catch that by scanning at just the right moment to catch a live IP on the scan tool... (while the ethernet lights were still flashing) in that state, I was able to start a second instance of cgminer in a second putty window(and mine with it manually inputting my info), but I was also then able to access the GUI and change it, as well as set the network access page to my liking, which fixed everything. (after, of course screwing it up more by attempting to save the settings from cgminer without knowing they dont use the root address)
It was a saga to say the least...but now I'm ready for the other two to come TOMORROW YAhoooooo