Hi, I just got an internet connectable Sony Blu-ray player. I went to get it setup for Wi-fi and found out I need the 80$ Sony USB stick. That seems a little rediculous to me, and I heard it's unreliable. I want to find something that can pick up the wireless signal from my router, then I just plug a Cat5 cable into the bridge, and the other end into my Blu-ray player. Basically like a wireless Cat5 connection. This is what I found: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122373&Tpk=NETGEAR%20WNCE2001 would it work? And if not; what would?
Thanks for any help.

Yea. What they are doing with the "wifi ready" vs "wifi enabled" is really shady imo.

What you are talking about will probably be no more or less reliable than one of the other dongles.

Not positive, but I think the Tivo bridge is actually an Ethernet bridge, which might work with blu-ray players as well as tivos.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036OR924?ie=UTF8&tag=terwhitecblo-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0036OR924

What you want is an access point acting as a bridge between the ethernet containing (only) the sony bluray player and the wireless network at large. Something like this should work, though you may have to jump through some hoops to configure it: TP-LINK Cheap Access Point / Bridge. The device you linked is probably the same thing, just branded for a certain use, dunno.

TP-LINK Cheap Access Point / Bridge.

I have this one, I'm rather satisfied.

On the pro side, it comes with Power-over-ethernet injector, which is awesome (my previous netgear, while supporting it, didn't provide the injector).
On the cons, the 3db antenna is a bit cheap for an access point (standard AP antennas are often 5db if memory serves).

As a note, I noticed this AP tends to be a bit unstable with some "draft N" or "extended G" devices. After testing, you might want to disable the extended features on those NICs as they didn't work for me.

Thanks for the responses. That looks like it would work. It would stream Netflix right?

No reason it shouldn't, your internet shouldn't be any faster than a wireless G network connection anyway (and probably not faster than a B ). So the internet connection speed in this case will be the limiting factor in bandwidth for streaming netflix.

Can always do what I did. Take an old Linksys router, install dd-wrt to it and use the router as a receiver. You also get 5 ports as the WAN port can be used as a LAN. Works great. And is also great due to the fact I don't have a old router sitting around doing nothing.