I've got a few media center PCs, one of which is in our bedroom. I can't get any cat5 to it so I setup a powerline ethernet connection. Unfortunately, our bedroom is on one of the new AFCI circuit breakers, and it kills the powerline speed. I get around 20Mbps, sometimes more, sometimes less. It will work okay for one HD stream (using HDHomerun Prime), but trying to do more than one stream, or trying to watch recorded tv from the downstairs PC it doesn't have enough bandwidth.
Wireless N would work, but we have a toddler with another on the way, and when he goes to bed we turn on a baby monitor which absolutely wrecks wireless in our house - every connection drops.
Is there any way to setup a wifi network that uses the powerline as a failover? I can manually enable/disable adapters but as this is a media center PC I'd like the background process to be automated.
I'm thinking about trying wireless A. We have a wireless A capable router, and a few of our laptops have wireless ABGN cards, but it seems like even with A the connection is not reliable. I havent tested the wireless A thoroughly, it just seems like when I'm using a laptop that has A and I get on in, I'll drop the connection 10 minutes later and windows will be back to trying to connect to the N network again.....
I read some articles on powerline networking, and some people suggested using a filter on the power connection for the adapter. Do these work decently? I'm using a TrendNet (I think) Powerline AV200 if it matters. I'd like to get around 50Mbps, I think that would offer decent performance.
BTW, router is a Linksys/Cisco E-3000 with Tomato firmware.
Wireless N would work, but we have a toddler with another on the way, and when he goes to bed we turn on a baby monitor which absolutely wrecks wireless in our house - every connection drops.
Is there any way to setup a wifi network that uses the powerline as a failover? I can manually enable/disable adapters but as this is a media center PC I'd like the background process to be automated.
I'm thinking about trying wireless A. We have a wireless A capable router, and a few of our laptops have wireless ABGN cards, but it seems like even with A the connection is not reliable. I havent tested the wireless A thoroughly, it just seems like when I'm using a laptop that has A and I get on in, I'll drop the connection 10 minutes later and windows will be back to trying to connect to the N network again.....
I read some articles on powerline networking, and some people suggested using a filter on the power connection for the adapter. Do these work decently? I'm using a TrendNet (I think) Powerline AV200 if it matters. I'd like to get around 50Mbps, I think that would offer decent performance.
BTW, router is a Linksys/Cisco E-3000 with Tomato firmware.
