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I am looking to purchase the dragon miners. My only issue is that I have a crappy and I mean very crappy verizon router. Is there a way to bridge a connection with a router? If so any suggested brands.

Another thing will it work with those wifi adapter that plug into the USB. Always wondered?

Any thoughts or suggestions would be great. Thanks

Simply buy a 15$ TP-Link Wlan router and configure it as a Wlan access point. (most routers say in their description that they can be configured as a Wlan access point)

You can then easily plug any device into you new router with an ethernet cable, and it will have an internet connection.

Dont go with the USB dongles, they cost more when running more hardware, you need to custom configure it in linux on every miner and you might get problems when rebooting.

I've had good experiences with this netgear bridge also.

WNCE2001-100NAS

no you would need to set it as wifi client! or bridge or wds

cheapest solution: Phicomm M1
even cheaper: Vonet VAP11G

I have a dragon miner and I'm using wifi on it, you need to be able to ssh into the box to be able to set it up though(for my machine root's password was admin, your's is probably the same). I plugged a usb wifi adapter in, then sshed into the machine, then used vim(you may need to install it, I had to: apt-get install vim) and edited /etc/network/interfaces and added the following portion

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
wpa-ssid <put the name of your network here>
wpa-psk <put your password here>
address <put in the ip you want the machine to have here>
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway <put your router's ip address here>


In case you don't know how to use vim, I'll write down what keys to press to add that all in(I'm using the quotes to show what to type, don't actually press the " key)

1. From the command line open the file by running "vim /etc/network/interfaces"
2. Press "G" to move to the bottom of the file.
3. Press "o" to move into insert mode and create a new line under the line you were on.
4. Type in what I pasted above putting your information where appropriate.
5. Press the escape key, this will take you out of insert mode.
6. Press "ZZ", that will save and quit.

Now you should be able to restart the networking service and your wireless should come up. To restart run the following command

service networking restart

Now run

ifconfig

You should see an entry for wlan0 in the output. If you do and it has the same ip address that you used above, then you should be all set on the wireless front. You'll also need to change the ip address on your dragon miner setup page to the ip address of your wlan0 device, if you don't then you won't be able to access it. Once that is done feel free to unplug your ethernet cable.

Don't buy wireless devices separately for every miner dude just buy an new router as users above me are suggesting you it will be way cheaper and more stable.

depends on how many miners he want to connect

1 miner? cheap wifi2lan dongle or usb wifi
up to 4 miners? wifi router
more than 4? wifi bridge + switch!
because that combo draws less power and routers with more than 4 ports are expensive

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I know it might be high but I want to utilize my 4G LTE on my wireless plan. I want to beat out every single penny from AT&T plans.

Thanks, this was actual for me too.