Connecting flex radio

steveambrose

Hello I may be being **** but how do I connect my flex radio to a laptop that only has usb c and no ethernet port? I was connecting Lan port on the radio to a desktop PC with the other etc cable but the modern laptops only have usb c. I can't connect the radio direct to the router due to different rooms.

Erik Carling EI4KF

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Al K0VM

Connect your radio ethernet cable to your LAN router/WiFi. Connect your laptop with Wifi to the router.

AL, K0VM

steveambrose

I did say that I couldn't connect radio to the router

VE7ATJ_Don

Hi Steve… Is there any way you could route a 'longish' cable between the rooms? Alternatively depending on which Flex you have, (i.e. a non-M version), you could, like I do, put the radio in a closet or near the router and just forget about it — essentially running it just as a 'server'. Then you can set up your laptop anywhere you want.

Eric's suggestion should work as well.

steveambrose

Unfortunately my radio is upstairs and my router downstairs. I didn't know if there was another around

Al K0VM

Steve,

Sorry I missed that point. You may be able to find a wifi range extender that has an ethernet port on it also.

So you get wifi from your LAN router/wifi to the extender and then ethernet cable from the extender to the radio.

I have a TPLink RE505x that should work but don't use it for that purpose.

AL, K0VM

Al K0VM

OR… If you don't need an internet connection, You could put a spare router/wifi device next to the radio

and connect the lap top wifi and the radio cable to that. It would be an isolated LAN.

AL, K0VM

steveambrose

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