<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Nicolas Riendeau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knight@teksavvy.com">knight@teksavvy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 9/26/2010 12:31 PM, Brian Wood wrote:<br>
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Anyone have any experience with any of the various powerline networking units being sold?<br>
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I had the occasion to try it and, at least for SD, it works...<div class="im"><br>
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I've tried units in the past that provide RJ-11 phone line connections, and had horrible results, but my home is an older<br>
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I believe this was/is called HomePNA... I'm not sure that still exists...<div class="im"><br>
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structure with Rube Goldberg/Heath Robinson-inspired wiring. My brother's place is a newer home that should have<br>
relatively clean AC wiring.<br>
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These things are affected by interference from other devices AFAIK and you most probably won't be able to plug them in a surge suppressor (it affected the signal when I tried it).<br>
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I also believe that, just like X10 stuff, it's also affected by phase (everything on the same phase should work but might not be able to talk to things that are connected to the other phase...<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>In the uk im using 3 200mps homeplug AV powerline units. One from the router. One to the combined FE/BE in lounge and one to the FE in the bedroom. SD & HD work fine no problems at all. Throughput about 80 mbps<br>
<br>I think speed depends on distance between homeplugs, quality of your mains line, interference etc. <br>