Nvidia Sheild Networking Question

[Stonep11]

I am interested in getting an Nvidia Shield so I can stream games from my PC.  I think it sounds awesome to be able to play Battlefield 4 from my couch so I can sit with my family and still game or play in my friends rooms in my door at college.  The only issue I have, is we are not allowed to have our own wireless networks at school.  I doubt my schools network is AC, maybe not even N, but I was wondering if I could just get a mobo like the Maximus VI Impact or any other board with mPCIe wireless AC and then link the Shield to that network instead of the one my PC is using to connect to the internet.  The main reason I am looking at this, is because I am looking to build a SFF rig I can transport between home and school, or anywhere else, and still get full capability.  I also want to know if this does work, what kind of range would I expect, like 100ft, 200ft, less?

 

TL:DR

1.  Can an Nvidia Shield link to a mobo wireless AC mPCIe card?

2.  What would the range be if this would work?

[SMURG]

What you're talking about is using ad-hoc networking, which would still technically be your own network and also probably won't work on the shield. Why are you not allowed your own networks, and could you not just run your own network and then turn off the SSID broadcast once shield is connected? How would anybody then know that you've broken this (frankly stupid) rule?

[Stonep11]

What you're talking about is using ad-hoc networking, which would still technically be your own network and also probably won't work on the shield. Why are you not allowed your own networks, and could you not just run your own network and then turn off the SSID broadcast once shield is connected?

They don't want people to hook up routers for security reasons. I really don't know much about networking, so you think it wouldn't work?

[SMURG]

They don't want people to hook up routers for security reasons. I really don't know much about networking, so you think it wouldn't work?

I would doubt it, ad-hoc isn't really a very common system to use (and is way less secure than hooking up a router ironically), so I doubt the Shield (or even android) supports it. You might be able to find an app, but even then ad-hoc is notoriously slow. It's alright for an Age of Empires LAN but for a h.264 stream to the Shield? I doubt it.

I edited my original post to include a proposal for running your own wifi network and then just turning off the SSID broadcast once the shield connects. This would give you a wireless network that nobody else can see. Sure, you'd have to log into the router and turn the SSID back on every time to connect the shield, and then turn it back off once shield is connected, but it's workable. Alternatively you could just ask the guys at your university and tell them you're happy to set up a MAC address whitelist so that only your stuff can join. At that point there's no security risk for them to worry about really - especially if it's local only, so if they refuse that they're just being plain unreasonable.

[Stonep11]

 Alternatively you could just ask the guys at your university and tell them you're happy to set up a MAC address whitelist so that only your stuff can join. At that point there's no security risk for them to worry about really - especially if it's local only, so if they refuse that they're just being plain unreasonable.

I understand the rule is stupid, trust me.  Its a government network though, so they have some crazy rules.  Hell, you should see version of Windows 7 Enterprise we have to run, the security settings are so crazy they guys in IT admitted to me well over half of the problems people have with their systems are purely the crappy service pack we run and the rest are just mechanical HDD failures.  They screen the network all the time though, so they could spot an attached device like a router and I could get in some serious trouble.

[SMURG]

I understand the rule is stupid, trust me.  Its a government network though, so they have some crazy rules.  Hell, you should see version of Windows 7 Enterprise we have to run, the security settings are so crazy they guys in IT admitted to me well over half of the problems people have with their systems are purely the crappy service pack we run and the rest are just mechanical HDD failures.  They screen the network all the time though, so they could spot an attached device like a router and I could get in some serious trouble.

? Don't attach the router to the network then, just have it run local only so it'll stream from the PC without sharing the internet connection. You could set up static IPs on your router so the PC still gets its outgoing IP address from the university one. There's no way they screen stringently enough to pick up a totally isolated network device, I mean they'd have to seriously infringe on your personal privacy to see it. It might limit the Shield to offline play (although depending on how the splashtop thing works, maybe not since it's running direct on the main PC... Not 100% sure on that) but it'd work at least.