Wireless Bridge

[iobridge]

PepWave makes a really good wireless to Ethernet bridge - the PepWave Surf 200. They are pricey but we found an eBay seller with a bunch of them:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190354462623

We bought a few of them and they came into today. We used the "Make an Offer" and offered $20 each for 3 of them. They accepted and the bridges came in a few days.

They took a little setup, but worked as expected fairly easily. The PepWave 200 makes a connection to your Wifi network and has an Ethernet port on the back. I used a laptop to configure which network to connect to and it's settings. Then, plugged the IO-204 in and instantly it connected to the servers. The wireless bridge comes with a 9dBi antenna, a long ethernet cord, and power supply. It's 5v at 3amps. First thing I did was hack off the connector and hook it the IO-204 so the IO-204 powers up hte bridge with the 4A supply.

It's a pretty cheap wireless solution. Let us know if you try it.

[SouthForkWeb]

Is there any way to use POE with these bridges? It doesn't seem available in this model according to this page: http://www.pepwave.com/products/surf/

[iobridge]

Looks like you are right, no PoE for this surf module.

Ytill would need power for the IO-204 (or whatever you are connecting) if you used the wireless bridge for connectivity.

[uknative]

How did you wire the power supply to both?
just curious as to how you went about this?

[iobridge]

Sure, here's what I did:

Connected ioBridge 4amp supply to the IO-204
Plugged terminal board in an open channel
Power Connector for the wireless bridge connected to terminal board (+5v/GND)

[texasclodhopper]

Jason, I took what you said at face value and ordered 3 of them myself!

Hey! That's a neat way to sell more IO-204s!

Wait a minute! Did I just have one of those psychologically persuasive moments?  Oh you're good; you're real good! 

PepWave makes a really good wireless to Ethernet bridge - the PepWave Surf 200. They are pricey but we found an eBay seller with a bunch of them:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190354462623

We bought a few of them and they came into today. We used the "Make an Offer" and offered $20 each for 3 of them. They accepted and the bridges came in a few days.

They took a little setup, but worked as expected fairly easily. The PepWave 200 makes a connection to your Wifi network and has an Ethernet port on the back. I used a laptop to configure which network to connect to and it's settings. Then, plugged the IO-204 in and instantly it connected to the servers. The wireless bridge comes with a 9dBi antenna, a long ethernet cord, and power supply. It's 5v at 3amps. First thing I did was hack off the connector and hook it the IO-204 so the IO-204 powers up hte bridge with the 4A supply.

It's a pretty cheap wireless solution. Let us know if you try it.

[SouthForkWeb]

I ended up purchasing a couple of these devices for my IO-204 and a cheap network camera I have. I do seem to be having an issue thought. I have successfully connected to my network in the device's settings and confirmed it is connected because the bars on the outside of the device show full strength (all signal lights are lit up now). However when I try to plug in my network camera or IO-204 to the ethernet port neither one seems to reach the outside world. My network cam and IO-204 both work flawlessly when plugged into the 5 port switch I have connected to my network.

Are there some additional steps I missed to make this device act as a standard wireless bridge?

[SouthForkWeb]

Enabling DHCP Server allows my IO-204  to connect, but I cannot hook up a network cam or hub to this device. Seems that only my IO-204 works

[iobridge]

I had no problem with the IO-204 or my laptop connecting. I have not tried anything else. I know I saw settings on how to make the bridge transparent. You want the address coming from your main router/DHCP server vs. the addresses coming from the bridge.

When the IO-204 is connected, hit the link button 3 times in a row. This should echo out the IP address that the module is using. That may help in your troubleshooting.

[Steve7867]

I Have one of these now. I can't get it to bring up the web configuration page as the instructions relating to 192.168.0.1!!!!!!!

HELP

Steve

[iobridge]

A PepWave bridge?

[iobridge]

Admin URL for PepWave:

http://192.168.20.1/cgi-bin/operator/admin.cgi?mode=config&option=setup

Default Account Info:

Username: admin
Password: pep888

[shiekh]

I have the Surf 200 with EarthLink firmware 6.5.41; anyone know how to hack it to take pepwave firmware 6.5.42?

[iobridge]

Are you able to login to the bridge?

[anestho]

I have successfully set up a wireless bridge using a cheap router asus 500G flashed with DD-WRT.  It is set up as a wireless client bridge.  This allows me to move the iobrdige into the garage instead of being connected to the cable modem in the house.