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WIFI Option for BCS460

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:40 pm
by gbrewer
I purchased a "Beer Brewing" gadget today from Walmart. $59.99 for a NETGEAR Universal Wifi adapter. I was able to plug the BCS460 into the adapter and create a connection to my main router. Seems to be working great so far. http://www.gbrewing.com/2010/10/24/wifi ... r-brewing/

Re: WIFI Option for BCS460

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:15 pm
by bad coffee
Looks good.

Re: WIFI Option for BCS460

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:29 am
by alowell
Hey gbrewer,
I bought the same WiFi adapter that you did and I am getting ready to hook it up and fire it up. Any evident problems that I might run into or snags that you came across in hooking up the WiFi adapter to the BCS? Any tips before I fire it up woudl be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Andrew

Re: WIFI Option for BCS460

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:39 pm
by gbrewer
No. This thing is simple. Used it on the BCS as well as my PS3 and Directv..

Re: WIFI Option for BCS460

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 3:46 pm
by jkurl
I just picked one up off of Ebay for $39 brand new. Thanks for the recommendation.

Re: WIFI Option for BCS460

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:51 pm
by mrlisk
Just a quick question as I'm putting together a shopping list for my future BCS setup - Can this universal adapter be configured to work on a secure network?

I'm assuming (hoping) i can simply "program" it on my laptop before connecting it to the BCS, that way it already has the name/password for my network. Or is there some other wifi lingo/tricks i'm unaware of to accomplish this?

Thanks!

Re: WIFI Option for BCS460

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:05 pm
by gbrewer
I have security on my network and it seems to work fine. You can look at all the information about the device online. There was a short setup which was completed with the device connected directly to my laptop.

Re: WIFI Option for BCS460

Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:55 am
by mrlisk
OK, great. Thanks for the info!

Re: WIFI Option for BCS460

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:45 pm
by TheAleMaster
So I bought the Netgear and hooked it up to my AirPort Extreme no problem. When I go into the AirPort Utility to see my connected devices, I see the Netgear adapter, but do not see the BCS-460. I can direct connect to my MacBook Pro no problem. I ran the BCSFinderUtility and it couldn't find the BCS either.

Any ideas?

Re: WIFI Option for BCS460

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:11 pm
by TheAleMaster
Just a follow up, I set a static IP in both my router and BCS-460, corrected the subnet mask (it was defaulted to 255.255.0.0 in the BCS and my network uses 255.255.255.0), added my router address, and forwarded port 80. I'm not sure if I had to do all of that, but something in that mess worked. So I'm now wireless with my BCS!