powerline network adapters

Has anybody heard of these powerline network adapters and do you know what they are like compared to wireless routers and cards Regards Mark

Oh... Well, as rosanne-rosanna-dana used to say on Saturday Night Live..... "Nevermind"......

Hi Mark.

I'm using a wireless power line device during my summer holidays in France: it's working very well if you have a powerful broadband connection. I have 8 mega DSL provided by Wanadoo, it goes into my router and from there into a power adapter plugged in an outlet. Any power outlet in the house now have broadband and you can connect your PC to it with another adapter. Also, you can connect a special wireless device in the plug with a range of

200 meters, ideal to cover a garden with pool. The great thing about a powerline network is you can have a connection through any electrical plug and you don't need to run phone lines through your house, especially if it's quite large with several floors and an outdoor area. Go for it if you have it where you are living!

Cheers,

Steffo

MARK wrote:

OP is in the UK, he can't spend thousands of dollars, they won't be accepted in the shops!

:)

David.

Steffo I have broadband wanadoo also but 512kbps would that be ok for an ordinary 3 bedroom house. cheers Mark

I have had all manner of trouble with them. I live in a rural area and there are some villages where the quality of the power supply is such that they simply are useless. In other areas they work OK, but are still more prone to problems that I like.

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Can you elaborate? What problems with the power supply are you having that would cause a problem for a local carrier on your house wiring?

David.

I have no idea, but I found that identical units (often the same units) worked in some villages, or rather on some supply lines, but not on others. I never did get to the bottom of it but I can only assume it is the supply (or something noisy powered from the same substation) as moving the same powerline units to another village (or in one case the other end of the same village which was fed from the other direction) and the behaviour of the units changed totally. The usual symptom was that the units would work fine for a few seconds, then fail for a few, and repeat for ever.

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In my opinion, you should double that up if you have only 2 computers connected, but go even higher if you have more. Remember that the wired PCs will split your broadband but wireless devices will not, so prefer a wireless connection if your computers have the wi-fi tools. I'm pretty sure you can cover the whole house you have with only one wireless device, but I'm wondering why you don't get the livebox from Wanadoo: it might be cheaper after all. In any case, wire-connect your desktop to the router (or livebox) and have the printer connected to that PC, then set up the home network sharing wirelessly the printer with the laptops: you don't need to run any additional phone lines. The LiveBox also comes with a phone connected to it where you can make VoIP calls. I'm using the powerline network in the south of France because the old villa is huge (only 2 phone plugs in 4 floors, 25 bedrooms and the outdoors area) and the best solution is having the connection using the electricity to go all over and plug in a wireless device to cover that area you need. With 8 mega ADSL, 2 PCs, 4 laptops (wireless), I'm getting about 2.4 mega in each connection, so there's some loss of bandwidth somewhere along the line. At home in Switzerland, I have a house similar to yours and I'm using a classic 2 mega ADSL connection with a wi-fi modem-router with 1 PC wire-connected to it and 2 wi-fi laptops around the house: in each terminal, I'm getting 1.2 / 1.6 mega and I think there's less loss of bandwidth than the powerline set up and the whole system is cheaper than the powerline one.

MARK wrote:

In another thread David Taylor referred me (so I don't claim any credit) to these sites:

both have powerline products claimed to work at 85Mbps. The cheaper product is £36 + VAT per unit.

Chris R

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Touche, although there are many places in the UK that will happily take US dollars.

Yep, Banks, Bureau de Change, British regsistered aircraft and possibly a very few shops in airports.

Where else did you have in mind?! There are a tiny number of very large shops in the shopping districts in London that *might* just about take the Euro but the US dollar? Not many that I can think of, where were you thinking of?

David.

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I've had no problem using US dollars at many hotels and shops in London.

Which shops? Other than say Harrods? :)

A hotel isn't a shop, doesn't count. ;)

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Harrods was one, but only one. Others I do not remember them by name. My non-Harrods purchases included clothing, dinnerware, crystal, and miscellaneous gifts.