Wireless Communication to Machines

[kccadcam]

If you need to hook up your ethernet capable machine to your wireless network, it's very easy.....

(no need for all that expensive DNC software)

Went out and bought a Linksys WGA54G Ethernet Port Wireless-G Game Adapter for $69 at Fry's.

 

 

Plugged it in to our MAM72-63V ethernet port,

set the unit on top of the machine,

configured a static IP address for the adapter and one for the machine. Setup the FTP User and Pass.

Fired up my little FTP prog on my PC and BINGO!

Looking at my machine dataserver.....

 

Sure beats stringing a cable all over the shop...

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Good Job Kevin!!!

[Daniel M]

Hey Kevin. I'm real interested how well it works. Is it suseptable much to interference in the shop? How far is your pc from the machine?

 

Thanks!!

 

Daniel

[kccadcam]

So far,, everything is working.

 

What really matters is the distance from your Wireless Router to your machines. (ours is about 20 ft. away)

You could even setup multiple wireless routers,

(one for the machines and one for the office computers)

If interference is a problem you can also get larger extension antennas.

(you can even crank up the transmitter power in your routers with "special" bin files if your into that stuff)

[Josh T™]

 

And we just spent $15,000 for Wirefree DNC

 

sigh

 

[kccadcam]

Found a nice FTP plug-in for Firefox.

"FireFTP"

 

We now have both of our MAM's hooked up wireless.

This works sweet....