I just ordered a few of the PGENET10 USB ehternet adaptor. They seem to work fine with the webplayer. I did a few speed tests with my ISP. I was abple to sustain a 4Mb/s transfer of their 64 meg file. I did the test 4 times in a row. Considering my ISP speed cap is set to 20Mb/s Down and 1Mb/s Up. My PIII 900mHz PC gets about 7Mb/s.
The adaptor seems stable. I have the adaptor pluged directly in to the webplayer. The only thing I noticed was when I reboot the USB adaptor does not initialize correctly, requiring you to un plug and plug the USB connector. For $10 how canyou go wrong?
Have you tried transfering one huge file though? most mp3s are ~4-5Mb and I think most people are ok w/ it. But the problem comes in when one tries to transfer an 80Mb file or something like that.
could you please test that and let me know?
Thank you.
04-11-2002 06:37:07
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:) I just did a test. I was able to transfer a 107MB zip file from my network to the webplay and I transferred the file back with no problems :)
So maybe this cheap USB adaptor is stable enough?
I also mounted the USB card in to the webplayer. The Ethernet port is a low profile jack so the height is just right. When I get home I will solder the thing in to place. I have the usb cable coming out of the small opening left by the Ethernet jack. Since I will be soldering I will move the Ethernet's Bi-color LED to the "Phone" LED and I will solder the "Mail" LED to the HD's connector. An LED for The network and HD is needed! I can’t hear the hard disk so I never know if the WP is locked up or processing.
I will get some photos posted this weekend.
04-11-2002 08:54:08
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Please do, this sure sounds interesting. I would like to see how all the things you have described are connected. I am totally glad to hear that something good and solid is in place for once.
04-11-2002 09:18:09
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The $10 PGENET10 works pretty good. I was playing internet radio on it for 12 hours. My original $30 Siemens 10/100 usb ethernet SpeedStream from Circuit City was unstable after 20 minutes.
Also you might want to turn off the automatic power management in the BIOS and Win98.
05-25-2002 19:15:56
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I also have the PGENET10, and have x-fered some GPS maps that are over 500 megs without any problems across my network.
However, if I boot the WP with the adapter plugged in, it is NOT recognised and I have to unplug/plug it back in for it to be detected properly - I wouldn't make it internal for this reason.
It sleeps/awakes fine however from powersaving mode.
07-08-2002 08:57:58
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Rob10000, I have never had that problem. I soldered the wires to the USB1 trace on the motherboard directly (I also run Win ME) and everything works perfectly; NIC, sound, video, and USB.
07-08-2002 17:26:26
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A tiny bit off-topic here... I just ordered a 3COM 3C460B 10/100 for 13 including shipping... will this work for my webplayer? Large file transfers and all.
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