Thread: Power line adaptors

I have a couple of the older 200Mbps Netgear ones of these

Never actually expected them to work but they were great for getting a signal from one floor to the other where wireless was useless.


That said I only got around 100Mbps in real world tests and I've heard plenty of examples where it hasn't worked

Thanks Rob. I guess it may also depend on the quality of the cabling etc as well. In my case it was replaced with new stuff a few years ago & the old cotton/rubber was all removed. Being an old stone villa makes this attractive to me but............... cest la vie.

In the most part they work fine. I used be a Telstra ADSL / Cable Broadband installer, fault finder. there was a case where we could not get ADSL to work in one street, where it should have worked, took the boffins a few months to trace a fault to a issue with a faulty light dimmer in another house. You might think this has nothing to do with ADSL but caused by harmonics .

Have had similar faults with faulty power supplies in plasma tv's .

If your internet isnt working as it should try unplugging your tv.

Even if they only push out 100mbps its still heaps faster than the fastest ADSL which are typically 12 -18 mbps for ADSL2, so I say its worth a try.

Don't expect the speed rated on the box, but they certainly have some good uses.

At home we use to have a Wifi N access point upstairs and a media centre (ATV) downstairs connected via the Wifi. Streaming 720p movies almost always paused/buffered at least once, some constantly stopped and were unwatchable.

I purchased some power adapters and run the ATV media centre through that and not once have we had a movie pause/buffer since. That was 6-9 months ago now.

Depends on what your purpose is, the quality of house wiring etc, but they certainly have been awesome for me.

Thanks lads, sounds like it is worth taking a punt on in my case, & I will keep your points in mind.

I use a netgear internet over powerline to provide a network connection in the shed, well away from the house. It's where the playstation and GT5 lives...

I didn't expect much but have been pleasantly suprised. So suprised, in fact, I moved the sharepoint server down to the shed to unclutter the office; the connection is good enough for my content management system.

HTH

Thanks. Is ordered, but I may have to fiddle around a bit because I am on a 2 phase connection & not sure it will work on both phases so may need to do some checking although I have a feeling the second one is just for the old Frigidaire electric range oven.

Time will tell, but I'm sure it's not insurmountable.

One more hint: they don't like to be plugged into power boards; instead, directly into a dedicated power point.