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Powerline networking rocks my world.

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Originally posted by: Griffinhart
Originally posted by: Eug
Originally posted by: Griffinhart
Unfortunately, Ethernet over power lines do not work well for everyone.

I picked up a set a while back and had nothing but bad luck in my house.

Downstairs to upstairs the connection was terribly slow. In the same room, it was fine. I tried using them to give a netgear MP-101 media player connectivity. It worked plenty fast for it, but it also, for some reason, added noise to anything being played.

On the other hand, my Friends mother recently got a broadband connection in her house, but her laptop was across the house from her wireless router provided by Verizon. She just couldn't get a reliable signal to the room she was using. So, I took the very same power line adapters and everything worked exceptionally well for her.

I think in my case the difference was the age of the wiring. They just didn't like the 40+ year old wiring in my house.
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Probably, but what about the hardware you used?

Were you using old 14 Mbps or 85 Mbps hardware?

I'm using the latest gen so-called "200 Mbps" hardware.
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I was using 200Mbps hardware. Like I said, it works like a champ for my friends Mother, it just didn't work well in my house.
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Turn on a 220V device (stove or dryer) and test then.

 
Interesting. So you're suggesting a 220V device will "bridge" the two lines for powerline networking. OK people, with powerline networking, you need to plan your network use to coincide with your laundry... 😉 I'll have to try that at some point. 🙂

BTW, my sis' is now very interested in powerline networking. She doesn't like the potential flakiness of WiFi either. I'll bring some of my units to her place to try it. I'm optimistic, since her house is only about 15 years old.

P.S. She was smart enough at the time to put in networking when they built the house... but she made the mistake of installing coax instead of Cat 5. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Engineer
I've been waiting for these to go back in stock for about a week now (Panasonic 190Mbit powerline ethernet kit (2 unit) at $37.99 + shipping). The 802.11g in my house seems to have issues in my bedroom....
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Well, this one never came back in stock but I bought a refurbished kit (with warranty) for $49.99 shipped from Ebay. It was so easy to setup and speeds are great with no drops. I did move the unit around as I thought the speed seemed a little slow but discovered that the PC downstairs was actually being slower (Vista was much slower at copying the file from the XP computer than XP from the Vista computer - go figure).

So far - so good!!! 😀

(Posting from it right now)! 😉
 
What speeds and latency are you getting?

Are those also proprietary, or possibly compatible with my Netgear HDX101? There are a couple of brands of 200 Mbps devices out there based on my Netgear's chipset IIRC. It doesn't mention HomePlug AV compliance anywhere on that site for those Panasonics.

Note: The HXD101 has a chipset from Design of Systems on Silicon (DS2) rather than from Intellon, the firm that made the chipset in all previous HomePlug products.
 
Originally posted by: Eug
What speeds and latency are you getting?

Are those also proprietary, or possibly compatible with my Netgear HDX101? There are a couple of brands of 200 Mbps devices out there based on my Netgear's chipset IIRC. It doesn't mention HomePlug AV compliance anywhere on that site for those Panasonics.

Note: The HXD101 has a chipset from Design of Systems on Silicon (DS2) rather than from Intellon, the firm that made the chipset in all previous HomePlug products.
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On the Vista PC (from the XP PC), the file transfers seems to be around 25Mbits/sec, however, when transferring from the Vista PC to the XP PC (using the XP PC to copy a file from the VISTA PC), it's much faster but I did not see a rate (it was at least 5 times as fast for whatever reason 😕 )

I don't know the latencies but the internet speeds tests gave me as low as a 13 ping time if that matters. All internet speed tests maxed out at the ISP speed of 10 Mbits/sec.

I don't know if they are proprietary or not, but they were cheap enough and with a warranty. They were larger than I thought they would be and they tend to run warm, if that matters.
 
I can Not figure out if this One adapter or a pair.

If it is One, then you need two for a connection and it is Not a Great Deal anymore.
 
Originally posted by: JackMDS
I can Not figure out if this One adapter or a pair.

If it is One, then you need two for a connection and it is Not a Great Deal anymore.
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It's for one and are there others that are anywhere near $24.99 each? I bought a refurbished pair of Panasonics for more than this and I searched for weeks on that one. I have not seen anything better than this in quite some time.
 
Ah, the thread has been revived...

So, I'll provide an update. My speeds have dropped dramatically now, because I had some electrical work done on the house (air conditioning, baseboard heating, etc.). Some of the circuits & breakers have been rearranged and I am now getting under 10 Mbps most of the time. Still great for surfing, but video streaming is not reliable - stutters. So, I drilled some holes in the walls and ran CAT5e outside the house and now I have Gigabit. 🙂 I still use powerline networking in some parts of the house though, and will use powerline for my gazebo. I was considering burying some CAT5e in the ground and running it to the gazebo for an IP camera, but good quality outdoor IP cameras are way too expensive. CAT5e built for burial is expensive as well for long runs.

How are those ZyXel units? Because of some of the stuff I've read about the "85" Mbps units in general, I've avoided those, and stuck only with the "200" Mbps units. Not only are they faster, some have claimed they're better on marginal lines. The 200 Mbps stuff shows up on eBay every once in a while for about $80 a pair for refurbs.
 
Hate to ask troubleshooting questions in this thread, but I hope I can get some help.

I have a pair of the Panasonic HD-PLC units linked earlier in this thread.

They have been working fine for a year now, connected to my XBOX360.

I recently got a new wireless router (ASUS with DD_WRT on it), and ever since then, the bandwidth has crapped out.

If I unplug the wireless router, speeds go back to normal...

Could the wireless signal be affecting the powerline?? Anyone heard of something like this??
 
yes. a dyson will completely knock out powerline networking.

if you actually study these systems they run udp at about 50-90% packet loss at full speed. tcp (nagle/etc) gets hit really hard with this type of loss so if you had the ability to stream at full (190/200mbps) with packet drop you'd get far higher performance than tcp.

 
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