Home Networking

[Jimbuna]

No grey matter required :nope:
just a fat wallet :D

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/editorial/devolo/?camp_id=email_newsletter_w06_2007_devolo

[The Avon Lady]

Old news.

Been in use in our household for a year for a non-Windows box with no wireless that I need for work. Ours are from Netgear.

[Jimbuna]

Nothing unusual there then :nope:
PC World are a high st. electrical store in the UK.....very expensive and slow at copying yesterdays equipment :lol:

[tycho102]

I've never used one.

From what I understand, they have trouble negotiating different phases. American power is ~120v, two phase, push-pull to get ~240v. So if you plug into a 120v on phase-A, it has trouble getting the standing wave across phase-B. And even more trouble negotiating the circuit breaker box because of all the line noise.

They're limited by attenuation. No one injects more than a watt to keep the signal localized to your house. Poor encryption even if it can be localized to your house. 100KB/s at 6 meters run, 40KB/s at 20 meters run.

You're better off getting a ethernet-converter (or a couple WRT-54GL's using DD-WRT), using WPA2 and a very strong 63-character PSK, putting a cantenna or some other directional antenna on it. Across a house using two cantennas (right receive, left transmit), 4MB/s is very common if the WRT's are put on top of a bookshelf or something. Get a really high power ethernet converter (250-400mW), and you'll get even faster speeds than that.

[Jimbuna]

This gimmick is even better :yep:
For a penny short of one hundred quid they'll kindly send someone to your home to connect you :rotfl:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/766721