Electricity networking for your home

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Electricity networking for your home

Extend your home network with power line technology

 

[Tux]

All good and well, but how well will it work while you're getting your daily Eskom loadshedding?

 

[pope24]

If the router is powered (via UPS) powerline networking works better with the power off. This is because there is less noise.

 

[TiredOfWaiting]

And the price?

 

[Tns]

ok, so how much? where can i buy one, o wait why would i need one since i have my wireless and fixed lan....

 

[AirWolf]

So an ethernet cable from your router gets plugged into an adapter on a power socket and all the other power plugs are now network capable with an adapter and ethernet cable to various pcs in the office / home?

 

[Veroland]

So an ethernet cable from your router gets plugged into an adapter on a power socket and all the other power plugs are now network capable with an adapter and ethernet cable to various pcs in the office / home?

More or less, the technology has been around for a long time. Does anybody know where to get this BiPAC 2070 and how much it costs?

 

[SlappY]

oooh wow, this has only been around for like a gabizillion years. (ok, maybe a gabizillion is a slight exageration)

 

[Kloon]

Okay so what happens to your devices if a power surge goes through the plug?

 

[stoke]

I wonder a lot about the scarcity of wireless network range extending devices.

 

[desperatedan2]

Anyone know if:

all plugs must be on same circuit breaker (we have plugs on different circuits)
additionally, what about different db boards in the home?

Thanks
John

 

[Kloon]

I believe it must be on the same circuit board to work. Wont go past you circuit board.

 

[LabAnimal]

I believe it must be on the same circuit board to work. Wont go past you circuit board.

Why won't it, there's no diodes in your DB board! - Its a make or break circuit!

 

[lpvoid]

Cool/Finally? But, do power surges affect the network? Remember, the ethernet cable is now going from the wall plug to a switch/router. Some UPS's may allow you to plug ethernet in/out which could help solve the problem.

 

[stoke]

It won't go past a transformer mkay.

 

[Goobie]

so you and your neighbours can be on the same network for LAN-ing?

 

[stoke]

No, cos you'll see dis beeg TRANSFORMER in your DB converting the Neighbourhood Sub-Station Power to your local 220V single phase Power.

But .. in a townhouse complex .. things could get interesting ...

 

[HavocXphere]

Can it survive a powersurge from our 2nd favorite company?

 

[Vegeta]

Can it survive a powersurge from our 2nd favorite company?

ppl stop asking if this thing will survive a powersurge!! Its the first thing you thought of dont you think it'll be the first thing the developer thought of to? Or are you somehow smarter?

EDIT: Did you go to bed early & become cleverer?

 

[Goobie]

No, cos you'll see dis beeg TRANSFORMER in your DB converting the Neighbourhood Sub-Station Power to your local 220V single phase Power.

But .. in a townhouse complex .. things could get interesting ...

My house's electricity as well as the neighbour's electricity comes from the same pole across the street. From the pole it shoots across the street into the green box on sthe sidewalk where my meter is and from there underground into my house's DB board. My neighbour's goes directly from the pole into his house. So where will I find this transformer as it sure isn't in the meter box nor in my db inside the house?