essjayehm 58 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Oh, really? I just saw this on my travels thru the interweb.... Thoughts? Link to comment
masteff 64 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Newegg has even added a "Powerline Networking" subcategory. I remember hearing about the tech in 1998 when I was a grad student and had to listen to undergrads do oral reports on news article; some researcher had announced they'd accomplished it in the lab. At the time, no one had home networks so the application was a bit lost on us but sounded cool. This is probably good for retrofitting a network into an older house. It could be cheaper than wifi in spread out locations where a repeater might be needed. I'd want to read up on interference, range and such. And it still wouldn't get networking to my laptop; still hard to beat wifi for portability. Link to comment
chattius 2,512 Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 We have LAN via power supply at firefighter building - works great. Wireles LAN was to troublesome- shortwave radio, DX,and other radio transmitters cause lot of packet losses when active. Other place is the cellar at my nephew: steel mesh in the concrete blocks WiFi and house owner doesn't allow thrilling holes for LAN-cables. Link to comment
Bariel 0 Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Yep it works great I use it to connect two wireless routers (one used as a repeater) as in older houses here the walls and basements are too thick and the wireless signal gets swallowed. Link to comment
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