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Hi folks. I am getting exited about receiving my x carve 750 in the next week or so. I have a couple of questions about internet connection.
I have a couple of different options with connecting my garage which is separate from my house by about 60 meters and not sharing the same meter box.
Has anyone had any success using their mobile phone as a hotspot for their laptop and secondly, does Easel require a constant internet connection throughout the whole cutting process. (If I take my phone up to the house half way through a process will it stop)
Looking forward to getting going with this. Cheers Ian
have you also considered homeplug? It is a very cheap but reliable solution. It will work if both locations are on the same side of a transformer. It is cheap, easy and portable. You connect the main device to the electrical plug by your router and with a cat5 wire, you connect it to the router. You connect the other side to the electrical plug in your workshop and connect the computer or a secondary router to it. Some even have a wifi built-in. As the old laptop in my workshop has a broken wifi, I use Homeplug and connect to Internet. For best results, connect the homeplug device on an outlet connected to a circuit that does not have electric motors connected to it as it will reduce performance.
Another solution would be to install a wifi booster near your shop assuming you have wifi in the house.
Personally, I would not rely on cell service for a reliable Internet connection.
I use a signal booster for my machine and it works great for me. I would not rely of cell service either. If you lose signal during a carve your carve will stop. Better to find the most reliable method possible,
Thanks Luc. It turns out that the shed is on a different transformer. In Australia where I am I think the homeplug is called a DLink. Same principle. I have tried this and had no luck. The WiFi booster is looking like the way to go. Cheers Ian.
Something else to consider. One way to remove the need to have an Internet connection in your workshop is to change sender and use something like UGS or CNCjs instead of Easel to control your X-Carve. They do not need to be connected to Internet to operate. You still design in Easel or something else like VCarve then download the GCode onto a memory stick and use the other sender to operate your X-Carve.
