Powerline Starter Kits

Has anyone had any luck with any of the powerline starter kits for home networking? I'm looking into buy one cause I get pretty bad service in my basement from my wireless router. Can anyone offer any recommendations?

 

I have the belkin powerline hd gigabit thingies. It works well, Certainly better than my wifi in the same position. Its pricy, but worth it.

 

I run some netgear HDX101s and they're great. I've had the previous gen of netgear and before that siemens, which were also very good. The only ones I've ever had a problem with were the original trendnets.

All of the powerline stuff is extremely dependent on your electrical wiring. In some houses that have lots of rooms or additions you may have an issue. Also using them behind power conditioners or surge protectors is not really possible, so having decently clean power is a must or you may fry the adapter eventually.

 

I have a two Netgear XE104s that I've been using for a couple of months. No problems with them, but as ALLurGroceries said it depends on your wiring. The adapters can only communicate with each other if the outlets they're plugged into are connected (as I understand it, here in N. America we get 220 volt power to our houses, which is split into 2 x 110 volt phases -- the outlets you're using must be on the same phase). This shouldn't be a huge problem, but you may not be able to plug the adapters into the outlet that's closest to your equipment.

 

For all I know us has 110V while Europe 230V (used to be 220V)

 

No, jimbob83 is right. The power that comes to the house is 220 volts. Washers, dryers, and other heavy equipment is hooked up to this.