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Re: Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windows over WiFi?

From crankypuss <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux, alt.comp.os.windows-8
Subject Re: Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windows over WiFi?
Date 2016-01-02 00:59 -0700
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Char Jackson wrote:

> On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 02:41:13 -0700, crankypuss
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>J.O. Aho wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/31/2015 07:48 PM, crankypuss wrote:
>>>> NY wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> "J G Miller" <miller@yoyo.ORG> wrote in message
>>>>> news:n638sr$qqa$1@dont-email.me...
>>>>>> On Thursday, December 31st, 2015, at 10:43:09h +0000, NY noted:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As you say, wireless is fine for almost all purposes
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Never attempt firmware upgrades on devices connected by WiFi
>>>>>> and not ethernet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Quite. And ideally, only update firmware if you have a
>>>>> fully-charged battery or else are running off UPS-backed mains.
>>>>>
>>>>> And we all follow that rule slavishly, don't we, children? :-)
>>>> 
>>>> I happen to follow it because there's really no choice; all of my
>>>> electricity is battery-backed, even when I'm running off generator
>>>> instead of solar.  The wifi imprecation, not so much; wifi is about
>>>> the best connection I get unless I'm staying in a hotel that
>>>> provides an ethernet cable,
>>> 
>>> Thought of ethernet over powerline?
>>
>>Powerline?  We're totally offgrid, there is not a single cable or pipe
>>crossing our property-line.
> 
> The property line is irrelevant.

That's what the critters think.

> All that matters is that you have
> some kind of wire connecting two or more rooms in the house, whether
> it be electrical, phone, or coax.

No, I don't think that matters at all.  Consider the source of the 
signal, it's some cell tower miles away.  What's most convenient is just 
to plug my BlackBerry into the wall and tell it to be a wifi hotspot.

> Adapters exist for any of those.
> 
> I used powerline networking for years, first with a pair of *200 units
> and later with a pair of *500 units.

Landlord?

> Both generally sucked.

And so you're recommending it, nice.

> I'm
> currently using coax (the adapters are Actiontec EBC6200 MOCA 2.0) and
> I consistently get 900+ megabits per second on file transfers. The
> best I ever saw with powerline was about 120 Mbps, but 20-30 Mbps was
> much more typical.

Fast is nice, on metered broadband, not so much.

-- 
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  [Sun Nov 22: "Total Portability is not binary"]

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                Re: Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windows over WiFi? crankypuss <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-01-02 00:59 -0700
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