Topic: Using Wireless WiFi adapter that was for Desktops on Asic miners (Read 177 times)

By "Wifi Adapter that was for Desktops" I assume you mean the little once that you plug into one of your desktop's USB ports? how do you plan on using that for a miner that doesn't have a USB port? and even if you somehow managed to connect it, you will still need to deal with the drivers, unless you know so much about these things, I don't think you will be able to do it.

The closest alternative solution would be using  Ethernet-to-Wi-Fi Adapter which functions like this:



source is amazon IOGEAR Ethernet-2-WiFi Universal Wireless Adapter.

In a nutshell this device gives a non-wifi device the wifi-capabilities, pretty much the same as the regular Wifi adapter on your desktop, but this one is Ethernet to Wifi as opposed to USB to wifi, there are many other brands so pick whichever you want, keep in mind that you will still need to use a network cable cat5/cat6, the wire can be pretty short it doesn't matter, if you can't pick the signal, you can extend the cable length, once done make sure you test the quality of the link by pining the miner's IP from a PC connected to the main router using the following command


Allow the ping operation to work for 5-10 minutes and then hit ctrl+c to stop it and get a report of the packet loss, rout-trip time, and all of that, alternatively you can use the miner's network tools to ping the pool directly from the miner, the only issue with that is that the miner is set up to perform a default ping of 3 packets which might not give you a very accurate result.

How much distance from router to miner?

2 of these

https://www.amazon.com/Cmple-Networking-Ethernet-Patch-Cable/dp/B00F50UZG4

with this joining them

https://www.amazon.com/Conmutador-escritorio-administrado-optimizaci%C3%B3n-silencioso/dp/B07QLV899F

this will give you 150 feet no issues

https://www.amazon.com/500MHz-ETHERNET-NETWORK-CABLE-100/dp/B00IMMHJRU

two of these will do 200 feet   have the switch in the middle will keep signal strong.

You can buy and setup an additional router to work in a Repeater Mode and then connect your miners to this router regularly by using ethernet cables.

I have done this in my small "lottery mining" mining hardware setup.

I have used Asus RT-N12 D1 for this purpose.
https://www.asus.com/Networking/RTN12_D1/

But please keep in mind that wireless connection is not recommended for mining! If you want to avoid connection disruptions, please use a hard wired connection.

Hi guys any of you had tried using Wifi Adapter that was for Desktops on your Asic miner? If you do please share how's it, i'm planning to do that but not sure if its possible because my router is quite a distance away and I don't want to get long ethernet cable nor wifi extender. P.S. my miner S9 Hydro