I have been reading about the Stoker for the last nine hours and know that I WANT ONE OF THOSE! I’m looking at buying the Stoker for my WSM and want to use the Stokerlog (if it works with Windows based system) on my laptop using my home wireless, BUT, I’m not a Brain Sturgeon and am afraid I may not have the knowledges to figure out how to hook everything up, let alone determine if my system is compatible with this. I haven’t a clue what you guys are talking about with terms/functions like game adaptors, WEP encryption, bridges, how to find IP addresses, SSID, etc. With my lap top (a Dell running some kind of Windows system but the tag has rubbed off so I don’t know which one, maybe XP?), I turn it on in the morning, it connects to my wireless internet and I navigate where I want to go. Does the Stoker and/or StokerLog come with adequate instructions for clueless idiots like me to figure things out? If it doesn’t, are there people at Stoker or StokerLog (Amir?) or the forum that have the patience to “walk me through it”, or would you suggest I just forget the whole thing?
To make this work, assuming lap top compatibility, it sounds like I need a “bridge” (which I assume is an electronic sending/receiving unit?) connected to the Stoker by a cable (which means I need to have electricity close to plug into, and some way to prevent it all being shorted out by rain?). Then the Stoker communicates with the “bridge” which communicates with something in my “GE Smart Connection Center” (2WIRE226?) up in the closet, which communicates with my lap top which runs StokerLog? Or can the Stoker communicate directly with whatever is in my “GE Smart Connection Center”?
Is a Dell 1184 Wireless Broadband Router Model WX-6215D a “bridge”? I have this left over from my old house. Would it communicate with a 2WIRE2267?
To make this work, assuming lap top compatibility, it sounds like I need a “bridge” (which I assume is an electronic sending/receiving unit?) connected to the Stoker by a cable (which means I need to have electricity close to plug into, and some way to prevent it all being shorted out by rain?). Then the Stoker communicates with the “bridge” which communicates with something in my “GE Smart Connection Center” (2WIRE226?) up in the closet, which communicates with my lap top which runs StokerLog? Or can the Stoker communicate directly with whatever is in my “GE Smart Connection Center”?
Is a Dell 1184 Wireless Broadband Router Model WX-6215D a “bridge”? I have this left over from my old house. Would it communicate with a 2WIRE2267?