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Home phoneline networking - 2 phone lines?

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envisioncs

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Is it possible to share a cable modem connection across two separate phone lines? My father's house has two rooms that have a different phone number than the rest of the house. I wanted to use phoneline networking because it is fast and cheap (compared to wireless). Will this work?

Thanks
 
Two-phone line means two separate cables as a result there will be no connection.

If you are electronically savvy you probably can find a point were the two cables are in one physical spot, and use the spare wires in the RJ-11. However, do not do it if are not knowledgeable you will short the Tel. system.

You are much better off going Wireless. The HPNA Router is expensive.

You can find Cable/DSL Routers on sale/rebate for a little more then $100, so there is no big difference as compare to HPNA with a Router.

Info about Wireless here:

What do I need for wireless networking?

 
It might work. I have a home phoneline network, and I've found that when I plug a machine into the wrong phoneline it still works. But, it may be some quirk of my wiring, and the HomePNA docs I've seen always say you have to be using the same phone #. If I was starting my home network now, I might go wireless, but when I did it 6 months ago wireless seemed pretty expensive and I was afraid it wouldn't work well in my big house.

As far as cost goes, you can buy Homepna cards direct from Netgear for as little as $20 apiece. Combine that with using a PC as an always-on internet server, and you've got a pretty cheap setup. But, if you buy a router (which I found works much better) that can drive up your costs, e.g. the Netgear PE102 ethernet/HomePNA bridge (which you would connect to a router) costs $113 at buy.com, or the Netgear RP334 router/built-in HomePna bridge is $250. I got the latter and it works great, but in retrospect I can't say I went the most economical route. But, I am very happy with the performance of the network, which has 6 different PCs on it.
 
Yeah, my mother's house has the Phonline network setup and it works great. I will try to find out more about the separate phone lines. I may even call the company and ask if it will work. If not I will go with wireless.
 
When I got a 2nd phone line put in, the technician set it up so both lines worked with one jack. If you plug in a regular phone, you get line 1; plug in a 2-line phone and you can switch between the lines; or plug a 3-way adapter into the jack, and you then have jacks for line 1, line 2, and line 1/2. I did the latter, so line 1/2 goes to my phone, line 1 goes to my homepna card, and line 2 goes to my faxmodem.

So, you might check with your phone company whether your jacks can be set up this way (or just add jacks for line 1 in the two problem rooms). Of course, the service charge would probably kill any savings you are trying to get, but the setup might be nice for other reasons, namely, you could have both lines in the same room and not have to go running around when you get a call on the other line.
 
heck.. I have 10MB HPNA b4..
speed is ok.. just don't like having always on pc as host

don't know how to do 2 phoneline though

praciticallynetworked.com ?
 
Here is a little bit of info provided by HomePna.org.

Also on their web page, they talk about a new 3.0 standard that will allow 100mbps speeds. That might revive interest in homepna if it works well. See here.
 
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