Home Networking

Jimbuna · 06-06-07, 11:48 AM

No grey matter required

just a fat wallet

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/edi...06_2007_devolo

The Avon Lady · 06-06-07, 11:59 AM

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 · 06-06-07, 12:41 PM

Nothing unusual there then

PC World are a high st. electrical store in the UK.....very expensive and slow at copying yesterdays equipment

tycho102 · 06-06-07, 01:29 PM

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 · 06-06-07, 01:52 PM

This gimmick is even better

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

06-06-07, 11:48 AM	#1
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,461 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Home Networking No grey matter required just a fat wallet http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/edi...06_2007_devolo __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

06-06-07, 11:59 AM	#2
The Avon Lady Über Mom Join Date: May 2005 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Posts: 6,147 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ "Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women." - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, Speech before the UN, 1974

06-06-07, 12:41 PM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,461 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Nothing unusual there then PC World are a high st. electrical store in the UK.....very expensive and slow at copying yesterdays equipment __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

06-06-07, 01:52 PM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,461 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	This gimmick is even better 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 __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

06-06-07, 01:29 PM	#4
tycho102 Ace of the Deep Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,100 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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.