So we have a piece of lab equipment that has to travel inside a vehicle as it gathers data while the vehicle is in motion. It only supports Ethernet in the model that has the specific capabilities that our engineers use. I'm looking for an easily procurable device that I can authorize on our network to bridge the connection so they can do data uploads.
I have seen these wifi to ethernet adapters and have seen them used before and work with home wifi routers, but I tried one and it will connect to our SSID but the device trying to get through gets no DHCP responses. (I've also tried it on a PC hard wired into the wifi to ethernet bridge). I also specifically added the MAC of the lab equipment's ethernet adapter to our WLC for MAC authentication assuming that was causing the DHCP not working but still only getting 169.254 IP.
Has anyone successfully gotten any of these devices to connect to their network and work to give Wi-Fi capability to hardware that only supports ethernet? And what did you use? I understand it may be possible with an actual Cisco AP, but that's kind of expensive to require one with a POE injector, and power inverter to get it working inside the vehicle. Something USB powered would be great because I could power it from the instrument itself.
The end goal is that we assign a DNS name to each device and any time they need to do a data dump from the instrument, the driver pulls into the parking lot of any of our company sites across the country and the engineer then remotely connects to this piece of equipment from their desk via the DNS name and then extracts the data from it. This is the device we specifically used and it did not work. It pulls an IP itself but the device on the ethernet port gets nothing.
https://www.iogear.com/product/GWU637/
