Need advice on how to achieve this or if its even possible

Wireless & IoT
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Would there be someway using say an XBee setup where I could have a alfa wireless usb adapter plug into a XBee with a usb expansion port and have the XBee transmit the signal from the alfa back to my laptop where I would have another XBee to receive the signal? Here is a link incase you want to see the alfa I am talking about. http://www.data-alliance.net/-strse-73/ … Detail.bok The only problem that I can think of with my limited knowledge with this kind of thing is that there would be nothing powering the Alfa and I do not know how to solve that issue.

Basically what i am trying to achieve in case I did not think of this in the correct manner is the have the Alfa adapter say a few miles away and have it so it was as if I had it plugged into my laptop at the location I am at. Basically I want to put the adapter in a rc plane and just trying to think of the lightest and easiest way to do this. I do not know much in the means of how to achieve this so I am open to other ways and or ideas if I thought of this all wrong. Also if I use the Xbee and I am able to do this would it have to be the 900mhz model as to not interfere with the wifi adapter? Thanks for any help with this

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What is the difference between an alfa and a regular wireless usb router – is it just a brand? I went to the link and it does look a bit different.

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There are some differences in functionality over a bunch of common USB adapters. But was just stating what I was using in trying to be as complete as possible in my post.

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What do you mean by “XBee with a usb expansion port”?

Do you mean something like the USB Explorer? In that case I can’t see this working - the xbee expects serial communication (FTDI?) on the Explorer, but I doubt the Alfa provides that. You’d need a layer that translates the USB-level protocol of the Alfa into a standard serial communication that the Xbee expects. I.e. you’d have to implement a software driver for the Alfa.

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yeah youre correct its what i ended up having to do though my end results were not ideal so I went a different way to get the results I needed.