guys!
i went to circuitcity and came across this one thing:
NETGEAR POWERLINE ETHERNET ADAPTOR
connection speed up to 200Mbps
does this thing work as advertised? if yes it's better to have it rather than using a wireless connection at home.
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It works with a few caveats.
If you have multiple breaker boxes that seperate power in your house, the powerline adaptor wont bridge from box to box.
If your electrical wiring is terrible, network speed suffers.
Asides from that, it works surprisingly well. -
Your internet will not be any faster. It is only good if you are doing data transfers to/from your computers in your house.
Oh, and you'll probably only get 10/100 speeds anyway since most PCs support 10/100 and 10/100/1000...and not 10/20/10/200 and the like. -
Let me try with a different hypothetical: suppose I live in an apartment building where each apartment has a single breaker box that controls the power to the entire apartment. If I use these powerline adapters within the apartment, the signal will not travel past the circuit box that controls my apartment, and thus will not be accessible by my neighbors, is that correct? -
That's a great question from a great person. The signal will travel everywhere as long as it doesn't find resistance. I don't know what is the frequency response of a breaker but I don't think it would be that different from an ordinary wall switch. So, I would say it will go beyond the breaker. It will most likely get attenuated at the pole transformer and very little come back again inside the house.
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oh well..then i should stick with wireless connections. that thing is also expensive.
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then it's possible that, if I live in Apt B1, that my neighbors in Apt B2 could receive my signal if I'm using the powerline adapter, and that there's also a risk, though smaller, that my downstairs neighbors in Apts A1 and A2 could also receive my signal?
If that's the case, I don't think I wanna be playing around with this thing in anything other than a single-family house. -
They must have the right equipment though, they must get connected in the outlet, filter the AC signal, remove the desired signal, etc. I believe the signal can go as far as 1000feet, so yes it could go everywhere. I bought it just to play with it but it was a home application not an apartment block situation. May be the implementation in your case it would require another device to be installed on your central panel so the signal terminate there, is just a low pass filter that is needed.
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Of course, right now, since I have wireless, they can "see" my network signals without even going looking for them, provided they also use wireless, so I guess that, provided I had security enabled, there wouldn't be much difference between the powerline adapter and the wireless I use now. -
Now, my house has up to date wiring, and there are no ther devices connecting to the Powerline network and competing for data, so YMMV. But under the right conditions these things actually work pretty well. -
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Hahahaha, indigestion is the story of my life, I have a very delicate stomach so I'm sick often, so whatever I go I bring my ENO (mineral salt) to deal with my stomach.
Powerline Internet makes a lot of sense in Europe where the power line infrastructure is different from here, I believe England has some communities using the power line. Now I'm talking about the ISP really using the power lines to bring Internet into your home, not just making a home network using the AC outlets.
Anyway, we'll talk about that another day, is time to hit the bag, good night.
Netgear Powerline Ethernet Adaptor????
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by vi3tscorpian, Jul 24, 2008.