DIY wifi adapter

[Jimmy Rocket]

Hi all, 

Bare with me on this as some of you may have done this or will know if it works or not. 

So I am looking at getting the skywatcher wifi adapter and I found an orion one cheaper and looking at reviews it also works with skywatcher.... Soooooo I got thinking can one be made cheaply? 

Pulled these images from amazon and was wondering if it would work? 

So what we have is an rj45 to usb and the usb wifi dongle, what do you think? Would it work like the genuine WiFi adapter

[StevieDvd]

I would err on the side of it not working. The SW Wi-Fi connector  has 2 modes, one where it is the wi-fi host and provides its own ip address, the other where it can be switched to running on another wi-fi host and get the ip address from that.

Unless there is an off the shelf USB wi-fi dongle (that can be host & client), that would seem to be a stumbling point. There are, I believe, some diy projects to do this though.

 

[Jimmy Rocket]

Thanks for that mate, thought it was a long shot to be honest