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    Anyone have experience with powerline networking?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by saturnotaku, Dec 15, 2007.

  1. saturnotaku

    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I was thinking of getting a powerline ethernet kit. It would be more for use with my new desktop PC that's running Vista x64, but I would be inclined to power my notebook with it as well. I have my eye on the Linksys PLK200 kit. Has anyone here used this model or anything similar from another manufacturer? These things are kind of expensive. I would mostly be using it for Internet surfing and light-duty gaming.

    Any help is appreciated.
     
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    I know someone who's done a fair bit of theoretical research as part of a graduate degree in engineering into powerline networking.

    Basically, whats the point? Why don't you just go with 802.11g wireless Ethernet?
     
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    SWB uses the 2Wire routers which uses the powerline tech. I have set several up and they work pretty good. If you have a bunch of noise on the line they have problems at times. The 2wire ones were only around the 10mbps speed, which is fast enough for most browsing. They were not playing any games so I can't say if there was any lad. Browsing seamed to be normal. The higher speed ones are suppose to reject noise better, but the reports I read is that you very seldom get full speed.

    Technology wise I have worked on HW like this in commercial lighting, called Powerline Lighting Systems. So it's been around for over 20 yrs now. In most cases it worked good, like any big installation you have controllers fail and get out of tune. I had the equipment to tune the boxes. Had over 400 units in one building.
     
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