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join:2007-04-14
Toronto, ON
4 edits | reply to JohnInSJ
Re: I'm shocked at how well Powerline Networking works (Netgear)
said by ChiTang  :May be the newer one overcome this shortcoming, I always have a hard time using those adaptors over 2 different electric panels (same house). Good for you. Which model did you use?
said by JohnInSJ :I was shocked how BAD it was in my house. Same room, same circuit, new part of house was OK Same room, same circuit, old (50 year old) part of house no link Different room, same circuit, old part of house no link Were you using older hardware? Or the same hardware as me?
But yeah. The part of the house where my home office is located was built in the 90s, and the part of the house where my garage is located was built less than 5 years ago. So all is pretty new copper wiring. No aluminum.
I will also note that my speeds would decrease dramatically if I used a power bar. I had to plug the units directly into the wall, or else use a non-filtered extension cord.
said by Jahntassa :Still, if you're looking for a way to get ethernet where there is none, it's a good thing to try out. I especially like the version where you can put one adapter near your wired router and the other adapter is an 802.11g access point. The HDX101 line does not have any such adapter unfortunately. However, what I'm just doing is plugging in an access point to several of the HDX101s. Same result, except with two pieces instead of one. My topology is as follows.
Office: This is where my DSL router and my source HDX101 unit live. Fully covered by 802.11g, since it's built into my DSL router.
Living room (one floor below office): HDX101 for stereo system. No need for wireless router because wireless from the office is strong here. However, I tried using an Airport Express to stream music here and to provide a net connection to my HDDVD player, but I find it kinda flaky. I'm going to try using the HDX101 wired to the Airport Express instead for music streaming. I've briefly had it connected up to my HD DVD player, and the powerline bridge to it is rock solid (which it wasn't when I used the Airport Express to bridge the connection.)
Garage (in new part of house): HDX101 and 802.11g access point. (The wireless from the office is too weak to be reliable. It usually seems to work with my MacBook, but won't work with my iBook or iPhone.)
Bedroom (in new part of house): HDX101 and 802.11g access point. Wireless from the office is too weak for anything. Even my MacBook can't see the office WiFi here.
Here is a topology map.
You'll note that the wireless networks overlap considerably, but that's fine because that way I don't have any dead spots or unreliable connections. Also, it works out that I "just" need 3 access points, which is perfect. 802.11g has three independent and non-overlapping channels: 1, 6, 11 and consequently those are the three channels I'm using.
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