Has anyone had any good results from a powerline ethernet kit?
http://www.ple.com.a...ryItemId=602079
Background:
For Linhes +XBMC Backend to Frontend
Ideally I would like my "backend" located in the study as main PC with "frontend" being in the lounge.
These rooms are about 10 metres apart and seperated by the spare room.
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Powerline Ethernet Kit
Started By
hesokay
, Mar 07 2011 09:17 PM
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Posted 07 March 2011 - 09:47 PM
Nothing beats a little Blue cable 
No chance of running one?
Cheers,
Arkay.
No chance of running one?Cheers,
Arkay.
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Posted 08 March 2011 - 02:05 AM
Thanks Arkay.Nothing beats a little Blue cable
Cheers,
Arkay.
I spoke to a techguy at work today who said a big fat NO to "powerlans".
Apparently he found that speed is typically worse than wireless G! Ouch.
So beast little Blue cable it is!
Inside a wall then across roof space and down into study.....any idea how much a cabler here in Melbourne would charge?
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Posted 09 March 2011 - 03:48 AM
Hehe.. Beast.. Typo that should've (and now is (beats) 
Not sure what it would cost. I'd just do it myself
Cheers,
Arkay.
Not sure what it would cost. I'd just do it myself
Cheers,
Arkay.
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Posted 09 March 2011 - 04:18 PM
Hehe.. Beast.. Typo that should've (and now is (beats)
Not sure what it would cost. I'd just do it myself
Cheers,
Arkay.
Haha you actually edited your post, I liked "beast" blue cable...
Yeah I'm going to run it myself
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Posted 29 May 2012 - 05:10 AM
Maybe some recent updates could be helpful to readers
The old 80mbps were not at all wonderful
The newer 200mbps units are fine and easily stream 720p movies - but if your kids are downloading from the internet over the same facility you will quickly run into problems
I've got the latest 500mbps units now - they are only small improvement as far as I can see
Trouble is, Ethernet over power has always been one or more steps behind wireless.
Since buying a house I've discovered neither wireless or ethernet over power are perfect. I can't get reliable VOIP performance over wireless upstairs - yet VOIP works fine over enternet over power even when degraded. I can't run Ethernet over power to the entire house, you never know where the power circuits go, switch boxes can cause havock causing reduced performance, ripple smoothers kill the networking all together.
The old 80mbps were not at all wonderful
The newer 200mbps units are fine and easily stream 720p movies - but if your kids are downloading from the internet over the same facility you will quickly run into problems
I've got the latest 500mbps units now - they are only small improvement as far as I can see
Trouble is, Ethernet over power has always been one or more steps behind wireless.
Since buying a house I've discovered neither wireless or ethernet over power are perfect. I can't get reliable VOIP performance over wireless upstairs - yet VOIP works fine over enternet over power even when degraded. I can't run Ethernet over power to the entire house, you never know where the power circuits go, switch boxes can cause havock causing reduced performance, ripple smoothers kill the networking all together.
