> BPL + ethernet maybe? At least you don't have to drill a hole. > powerline is really bad BPL is Broadband Power Line right? This house is wired with very old copper wires (not twisted), I bet I would not get much out of it, but thanks for the suggestion. > Richard Miller's plan 9 image supports wifi on these machines. > As of now there is no wifi dongle support in 9front. You can use an older Android phone's usb tethering (no cell service needed) with nusb/ether in rndis mode. > i used to use an external wifi bridge over ethernet These are all valuable options, thank you, but hiro is making me think: > keep in mind wifi cannot really bridge more than one IP (sadly the wifi src/destination fields cannot be mapped to ethernet mac addresses properly). Could you please expand this a little bit more (possibly with references)? I’ve attached to this email a little handmade diagram of my home setup. The line tagged with “long eth cable” was the one that I wanted to replace with a wireless connection to some receiver device that eventually ethernets with the switch, but still I would have had to check what 802.11 is allowing me to do. What you tell makes me think that that protocol in this setup in that position is not really a viable option right? > drilling holes is not so bad Indeed, this is what I’m going to go for :D Thank you very much for your help so far, dan