unRAID with wireless card

[GermanGramatikov]

Hello everybody,

 

First I want to say that I have watched a lot of videos in youtube on how to set my unRAID server and also read a lot of documentation but the only thing that I found is how to set unRAID to pass-through my wi-fi crad to my VM, but I want it to be used by unRAID itself so is there a way to do this? The problem is that I live in a small apartment and I don't like having cables hanging around. Also I have searched the forum and only found alternative solutions like using network adapters for the wall power sockets, but I still would prefer to use wi-fi. The model of the wi-fi card is Tp-Link archer T9E http://www.tp-link.com/us/products/details/cat-5519_Archer-T9E.html if needed.

 

Any tips and tricks will be highly appreciated! Thank you!

 

P.S.: I am a new user ... have not installed unRAID yet ... looking forward to do it in the next few days.

 

Edited July 8, 2017 by GermanGramatikov

[Squid]

unRaid doesn't support wifi cards.  You can use PowerLine networking, or a wifi->ethernet adapter.

[GermanGramatikov]

Thank you for the fast reply Squid - would you know if lime tech have a plan to add this as a feature?

[Squid]

16 minutes ago, GermanGramatikov said:

Thank you for the fast reply Squid - would you know if lime tech have a plan to add this as a feature?

You never know, but I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for it.

[digiblur]

I honestly wouldn't recommend using wifi for any type of server. You really just want hard wired that you know works and doesn't introduce any issues. Find a way to locate the box in a location you can run ethernet to it.

[FreeMan]

Put your server in the corner where your internet connection comes in. Put the cable/ADSL/Fios/whatever modem on top of it. Run a cable from the modem to your WiFi router, run a cable from the router down a few inches to the server's Ethernet port. Connect everything else via WiFi.

 

Any type of network server/appliance will appreciate having a hard-wired connection.

[Zonediver]

15 hours ago, GermanGramatikov said:

Thank you for the fast reply Squid - would you know if lime tech have a plan to add this as a feature?

 

You can also connect an Accesspoint or MediaExtender to unraid - problem fixed

Edited July 9, 2017 by Zonediver

[GermanGramatikov]

Wow what a great community so many replies in a day!

So I can see most of you have replied to connect directly - believe me if I could move my desk next to my router I would have done it so far but it is just impossible due to the layout of the apartment, and I can't move my router as I will need to extend the LAN cable that is the "uplink" so I will still have a cable running through the apartment. 

 

But Zonediver gave me the best idea - I will just buy an AP and use it as media converter from Wireless to LAN and I think this will solve my issue

 

Thank you all for you ideas!

[TinkerToyTech]

ok, so my plans to use a motherboard with built in wifi as a pfsense router is impossible because the Hypervisor Needs support to pass it through then?  

 

[GermanGramatikov]

I think that you can pass through any hardware that you like to a VM, the question here is the unRAID itself can't use the wireless