{"id":935,"date":"2012-04-14T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T06:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=935"},"modified":"2012-04-14T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T06:09:09","slug":"tiny-usb-wifi-access-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"Tiny USB Wifi Access Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I travel a lot for work, and a surprising number of the hotels at which I stay still don&#8217;t have in-room wifi. Because of this, I&#8217;ve carried an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/airportexpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Airport Express<\/a> in my luggage for a couple of years, so that I can have my phone and tablet online while in my room, in addition to my laptop. <\/p>\n<p>Wandering through an electronics store here in Tokyo this afternoon, I came across something confusingly also called an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iodata.jp\/product\/network\/wnlan\/wn-g150tr\/\" target=\"_blank\">AirPort<\/a>, from a company called I-O Data. Packaging was all in Japanese, however after a bit of deciphering of diagrams and the odd technical word in English, I realised it was a tiny, USB-powered wifi access point. How tiny? I think the technical term is &#8220;bloody tiny&#8221;. Here&#8217;s a photo beside my Airport Express. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/airport-meet-airport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/airport-meet-airport-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"airport-meet-airport\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-938\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/airport-meet-airport-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/airport-meet-airport-480x311.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/airport-meet-airport.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small enough to be permanently connected in my USB travel pack, which is a small, padded, zip-up case I&#8217;ve kept in my laptop bag for a few years now, containing a portable HDD, a few cables (iPhone, micro-USB, etc) and now, a wifi access point, all permanently connected to a USB hub (also in the case). One USB cable to plug in, no need to even unzip it, everything I need already connected, and only one thing to remember to pack up again.<\/p>\n<p>Reasonably cheap too. 2,300 yen, which is less than $30 US. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone want to buy an Airport Express? Only one owner! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I travel a lot for work, and a surprising number of the hotels at which I stay still don&#8217;t have in-room wifi. Because of this, I&#8217;ve carried an Apple Airport Express in my luggage for a couple of years, so that I can have my phone and tablet online while in my room, in addition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}