USB Wireless Adapter with no drivers?

[DarkDubzs]

So I am looking around online for a CCTV surveillance system and I would enjoy it being connected to the internet via our LAN so we can see the video feeds remotely. All the systems under $200, which is my budget for the system+HDD, are not wireless. The systems I'm looking at do have multiple USB ports though, enough for a mouse and a free port. So I was thinking I could just plug in a USB Wifi adapter, connect it to our wifi network, and be set. Then I remembered that they need drivers usually to be set up and work, the CCTV DVR cant support these drivers, so the adapter would need to be plug n play with no drivers. Does such a USB wireless adapter exist? Ive been looking online for some, but I cant really find any reasonably priced or with good ratings. Any suggestions or recommendations?

E: Forgot to mention that the dvr setup will be too far from one of the routers in the house and a long cable run would be needed, probably underneath the house or in the attic until it gets to the section of the house with no attic, so it would be too complicated and cumbersome to do a cable run from a router to the dvr. Another option would get a wireless repeater or bridge to get a connection from the wifi and then connect to the dvr with a cat5 cable.

 

[/usr/home]

Yeah, that's not possible. Everything needs drivers.

 

[Nate7311]

Your only real option would be a WiFi bridge

 

[Archmage]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7127/the-joys-of-80211ac-wifi/2 - I wonder if there is something better than this Western Digital wireless bridge below $100... This was from 2013.

http://www.amazon.com/Bridge-4-Port-Gigabit-Speeds-Wireless/dp/B00A66WJWK - it's $60, and has been about that price for a long time.

Is this what people are doing to get good Wifi performance? Buying entire routers / bridges ? It seems like Wireless-AC routers are pretty good now, but client-side devices are probably still slow...

Edit: Linksys has the wumc710 AC-bridge for $55. Then I guess there are some inexpensive AC-routers out there (Tp-link, D-link, netis, etc), and probably much cheaper options if wireless-AC isn't desired.

 

[wizdum]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7127/the-joys-of-80211ac-wifi/2 - I wonder if there is something better than this Western Digital wireless bridge below $100... This was from 2013.

http://www.amazon.com/Bridge-4-Port-Gigabit-Speeds-Wireless/dp/B00A66WJWK - it's $60, and has been about that price for a long time.

Is this what people are doing to get good Wifi performance? Buying entire routers / bridges ? It seems like Wireless-AC routers are pretty good now, but client-side devices are probably still slow...

Edit: Linksys has the wumc710 AC-bridge for $55. Then I guess there are some inexpensive AC-routers out there (Tp-link, D-link, netis, etc), and probably much cheaper options if wireless-AC isn't desired.

Most of the benefit of AC is in the 5ghz spectrum, which is too short range to help here. The best bet would be to use a powerline ethernet device. Wireless is for mobile devices.

 

[DarkDubzs]

Thanks guys. So I guess I'll have to either use a powerline adapter or use a bridge. Just to make sure, I can use different brand or models for powerline adapters, right? I already am using two to connect one router from another and I'm pretty sure the adapters are discontinued. Hope they'll all end up on the same circuit when I add a third.

I can also just get almost any new router and configure it to bridge mode can't I? I don't need to buy one that is specifically marketed as a bridge?

Part of me wants to just use a powerline adapter for ease and lower price, but it usually ends up with a slower connection speed, but then again, using a bridge would halve the speed anyways.