Yeah the total wire distance. Understood.
This utility room has it's own subpanel which is newer than the rest of
the wiring in the building. If they made a new home run for this sub
panel then it might be 100+ feet of extra wire to get there.
I've read the best case distance for homeplug is 300m, but maybe half
that in real life. It's hard to believe they can't go a little farther.
If 300m is the best we can hope for, then why did any ISP ever think
BPL would work for last mile distribution? Was BPL radically different
from homeplug?
Something like 10meg at 1000m would be more useful to me than gigabit
across the room.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Bill Prince" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 8/19/2016 1:10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BPL / Homeplug
With homeplug, it's not how close individual plugs are located because
they have to go through the breaker panel. If the panel is 3 floors
away, then the signal has to go down to the breaker panel, and then
back up to the other homeplug unit. The total distance is the issue.
bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 8/18/2016 6:38 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
Is there any equipment manufacturer still selling broadband over
powerlines equipment?
I tried a cheap netgear homeplug kit to get data from a utility closet
to an apartment 3 floors apart. It works (with weak signal) in the
hallway just outside the apartment, but doesn't connect from inside
the apartment itself. I get a similar result going the other
way....with the one homeplug unit in the apartment, I can get a weak
signal on an outlet down the hall from the utility closet.
It seems like if I'm that close, then maybe just a better piece of
equipment would make it happen.
This is a temporary and freebie thing, so before you tell me how much
homeplug sucks, just be aware that I only need it to work for a little
while. I could run ethernet if I was willing to cut handholes in the
drywall and patch them back up....but I'm not.
