Best 802.11g Wifi hardware

Wireless & IoT
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Hello all,

I am looking to start an Arduino project that I hope will include a Wifi Shield to report to a remote web server via an internet connection. I’d like to ask the community what the best Wifi hardware for arduino is, with the least heartache.

I have both an uno and a mega 256, but, to make the project more complicated, I’d like to use the mega as a gateway, meaning I’d like to have both a wifi shield, and an xbee series 2 shield on it, so that one or more unos can report to the mega, and the mega can report to the server. The unos will not be meshed, but will be in a starfish network, but I’m still trying to figure out if it’s possible to have multiple wireless shields on a single mega board…

Thanks for any help.

-Ghost

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If you use a WiFi module that employs an SPI interface, it’s easy to address one of n modules. WizNet makes some.

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maybe Carambola WiFi module ?

http://www.8devices.com/product/3/wi-fi-4-things

Arduino shield based on Carambola module is available too.

http://www.8devices.com/community/viewt … p?f=8&t=30

ghosttofear:
Hello all,

I am looking to start an Arduino project that I hope will include a Wifi Shield to report to a remote web server via an internet connection. I’d like to ask the community what the best Wifi hardware for arduino is, with the least heartache.

I have both an uno and a mega 256, but, to make the project more complicated, I’d like to use the mega as a gateway, meaning I’d like to have both a wifi shield, and an xbee series 2 shield on it, so that one or more unos can report to the mega, and the mega can report to the server. The unos will not be meshed, but will be in a starfish network, but I’m still trying to figure out if it’s possible to have multiple wireless shields on a single mega board…

Thanks for any help.

-Ghost