Ethernet over power

S

syntax

Executive Member
Joined
May 16, 2008
Messages
9,522
Reaction score
1,642
Location
jozi
Please dont ask why.....someone i know wants this....

my question is, anyone used it and how reliable is it?
They are not too worried about transfer speeds, it just has to work...

any experience on this tech?
 
I've used it a couple of times in places where it was just more convenient and cheaper than cables. No problems at all.

tau1z said:
Please dont ask why.....someone i know wants this....

my question is, anyone used it and how reliable is it?
They are not too worried about transfer speeds, it just has to work...

any experience on this tech?
Click to expand...
 
A= Yes it works.

Things you need to take into account. That if you have more than one DB box it might be a problem. If its in a single house using a single power grid within the house its fine. Just make sure not to buy the low end devices as the mid range devices does give you better performance. I know a person personaly that uses this tech. But I wont personaly use it if there is no other way like nWifi and propper cabling.

Regards

Daniel Cisco Swart
 
Basically, 10-base and 100-base networking uses pairs 1,2 and 3,6 for transmit and receive. Pairs 4,5 and 7,8 is unused.

PoE "injects" positive power on 4,5 and negative on 7,8

You get PoE injectors and PoE splitters. Then injector is a specially designed block which prevents power leaking back to the normal network, whilst a PoE splitter "splits" the power from the network cable so that you can plug it into the device which doesn't support PoE.

Google PoE injector and PoE splitter for more information ;)

Keep in mind that, for long cable runs, you might need to increase the voltage at the input end to compensate for voltage drop so that you get the correct voltage at the other end.
 
Any chance of posting some links to the actual products used to set up a network like this?
 
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=DWL-P200

DWL-P200_right.png
 
READING THE QUESTION

He is asking about ethernet over power not power over ethernet lol
 
Update on this,
got the devices and tested em out, the transfer speeds are a fair bit below the marked 200Mbps, but it works pretty well....overall i am satisfied with this!
 
bekdik said:
Which solution did you go for?
Click to expand...

Edimax homeplug 200Mb, seemed ok priced (R700) per unit, works well enough...
didnt really shop around though, so if you know of cheaper/better plz gimme a shout...ppl seem interested in getting more of these
 
Sorry to bump an old thread... but where can I get Ethernet over power adapters locally (not PoE).

I want to connect two routers, speed is not that important.....
 
I think ESKOM invented this technology back in the 70s. So I guess you can say its Proudly SA
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X