200 Mbps home network using your power lines

could have some good uses in a complex
 
The one thing they always forget to mention about this R900 device... all the devices in a home share the bandwidth, so the 200 Mbps can quickly become saturated. You also have a much bigger problem with lightning. Normally the packages also only contain 1 device. I love the idea of the device, but in very few cases will it actually be worth it. (IMHO)
 
i like the idea, even with lightning and what not its easier than to get the owner to agree to lay cable
 
Could be pretty useful when this technology matures more...I mean wireless routers has 1 wan port supporting 54/105megabits per sec which gets saturated quite quickly...200mbps seems quite nice.

What about radio interference though? Wasnt there a hectic problem with radio wave interference before?
 
They are all crap - i had a set from different companys & they do not come close to any speeds they claim!! & good luck with 3 phase!!!

If you got no story why write about stuff that is just not up to spec!! we want to know about things that will make our lives better!!
 
I have a pair in my house and its really usefull. Using it to stream videos to my xbox and to connect to the internet for online play.

Some friends of mine used it to connect multiple rooms in their house to the router in the study which due the distances this saved them a pretty penny. Also pretty diffycult to send a wireless signal through a concrete slab! :p

I got mine here

erasma it might not have made your life any easier but thats not to say someone else won't find a use for it. Bit of a kneejerk reaction... ;)
 
From what I heard is that the device can cause quite a bit of electrical noise?? Dont know of this is true??
 
I've got the D-link ones and man this is good. only problem is with file transfer speed. its way slow. I copy files at 3mb/s - 5mb/s. and we suggest plugging it directly to the wall plug.

This is good for connecting 2 rooms together for a LAN Party at your house. Me and couple of friends were laning and I didn't want to move my pc so e used 2 rooms and connected it with the D-link Eop device and it worked amazing.
 
I dont quite fully understand how this works. Will the internet connection tie straight into a telkom exchange? There must be some breakout point from the power circuit onto our current infrastructure. Or will it go straight into a certain ISP control internet access via the power lines, then move onto the different networks? That would mean extra relay time? Who do we buy b/w from etc....
Will this also work in gated communities and apartment buildings where we are on a closed circuit. I buy my prepaid electricity from security downstairs, and cant buy at an average store etc... How will this effect us...
 
About a year ago I setup a few netgear products to do the same thing, not that great (well the ones I used anyway). The biggest problem was that the 2 devices did not see each other over the power lines in the same house and the ones I did get working performance was painfully slow...

Basically one device is a router, lets say downstairs that plugs into a normal wall socket with telephone line running into it. Then where you would like access say upstairs you plug in the 2nd device which would either provide a ethernet port or would be a wireless ap.
 
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I dont quite fully understand how this works. Will the internet connection tie straight into a telkom exchange? There must be some breakout point from the power circuit onto our current infrastructure. Or will it go straight into a certain ISP control internet access via the power lines, then move onto the different networks? That would mean extra relay time? Who do we buy b/w from etc....
Will this also work in gated communities and apartment buildings where we are on a closed circuit. I buy my prepaid electricity from security downstairs, and cant buy at an average store etc... How will this effect us...
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The devices are purely for setting up a network in your home. It doesnt connect to telkom or the main power network in any way. It just superimposes a signal onto your copper wiring for you plugs and a receiver plugged in somewhere else in your home should be able to pick up that signal and decode it. Its obviosly completely dependant on how the house is wired cause these signals dont have infinite range. I imagine 200mbps is like 5m apart or something useless.
 
Surv0 said:
I dont quite fully understand how this works. Will the internet connection tie straight into a telkom exchange?
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Hell no.

This only works in your house, it basically means you can extend your local LAN within your house to every location with a power socket. One device still has to plug into your normal adsl router. Could probably also be used in a complex.
 
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