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powerline adaptor products

The limitations seem to be related to the age of the wiring or the condition the wiring is in. Old houses with degraded wiring or those new ones with low grade wiring cause the devices to not work. Another issue is that the devices seem to work best when you are moving signals only on one circuit and not trying to jump across fuses or circuit breakers. Also large electric motors create disturbances that seem to kill the signal. That means they have low success on circuits for refrigerators, air conditioners, ceiling fans, and the like. I have a friend who uses devices similar to the Netgear equipment who loves them because they freed him from dealing with wireless router troubles. He plays online games with no problems caused by the devices. He does live in a house that is only about 4 years old. Other people have no success at all. The best thing is to study your electrical system and see if you have a circuits that are not troubled by the issues I listed. If you do, you can ask to make sure you can return the devices from the store if they do not work and try them out. I talked to a person at Fry's Electronics once about these devices and he said results were very mixed. Some people had great experiences right out of the box on the first try and bought more. Some people could not get any brand or capacity device to work. He said it was about a 50% success rate if you allowed for the people who had to try different brands or capacities before they had success. He said the higher data rate models were usually the most sensitive to bad conditions, so advised to try the lower data rate models first.

Hmm wow ok lol yea I had a kit picked out from Walmart.com I know for sure I can take them back there.but honestly they probably wouldn't work in my house because this house uses the old screw in glass fuses for the fuse box plus I think this town has a lot of dirty power also because you can hear static and popping from speakers sometimes and them not even be turned on.but hmm not sure if I wanna give them a go or not I was gonna try the 85mbps adaptors

reply to zerokool81
Wal-Mart is OK about taking things back that do not work for you. Just make sure to unwrap and remove the packaging carefully. Obviously keep the receipt in good condition. And be prepared to stand in a long return line.

I talked to my friend who games with them. He confirmed that turning on motors on the same line will stop the data transfer. And this is in a fairly new house with good wiring. he said that he was able to get data across his circuit breaker box. But again his house has relatively new wiring. The glass fuses should not be a big problem if the contact area for the screw in part is not corroded or dirty. You really need to invest in a good whole house powerline conditioning unit if you are getting such dirty power from the city. It would be an licensed electrician installing it unless you have those skills and the city regulations allow you to do so.

no trust me my uncle always makes sure things are in good shape plus when he bought the house he did alot of work to the house inside and out i talked to him today

i will look into the hole house powerline conditioning also

and thanks for the responses

reply to zerokool81

Re: powerline adaptor products

Your concern is justified. The usual solution of a surge protector, between the powerline data device and the house outlet, has been shown to cause complete loss of signal in some cases. Some people have been able to get data to pass through a surge protector and others using the same model of surge protector have gotten 0 bps. It has to do with the way the noise filters are set up in the surge protector and how they are designed.

reply to yragha

I spoke to someone in India that works for Netgear only because when I sent them this question via email they contacted me telling me my technical issue would be better solved over the phone.

Barely understandable he said let me put you on hold for a minute and I will find the answer for you...

Uh huh -

He read out of his HOW TO GUIDE FOR DUMMIES that it's possible that my equipment could be damaged with a very large power surge. That's all.

That was one wasted phone call.
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