simbo;202739 Wrote: > Agree that Homeplugs are more reliable, however a "rogue" device, such > as an ill-tempered washing machine or cantankerous TV, can cause enough > disruption to the signal to render it useless*. > ... > > * in fact I've noticed I get a significant drop in performance if my > SB3 is too close to a Homeplug!
I've only tried one vendor's "85 Mbps" gear, but in a house with new (< 5 years old) wiring, I'd only get about 11 Mbps between the two Homeplug devices, and therefore about 1500 kbps or less on the Network Test. That's half what I get with 802.11g in the same location. It bugged me that the Homeplug devices had to go straight into the wall outlet -- I worried that a surge might not only fry the HomePlug gear, but also traverse the cat5 cable and harm the much more expensive Squeezebox. I found the gear to be darn picky, too. I planned to use a grounded extension cord, plug the HomePlug adapter straight into the extension cord and then use separate cheap surge protectors for the SB2 and amp -- but plugging the cheap surge protector in next to the HomePlug device on that cord wiped out the HomePlug network. I had to put the HomePlug adapter halfway across the room and run ethernet cable back to the Squeezebox. The only thing HomePlug offered me was immunity to RF leakage from my microwave oven (which does wipe out wifi for the nearest Squeezebox) and the ability to remove the antenna from my SB2, but that wasn't enough to justify the cost & ugliness of the HomePlug gear, not for me, anyhow. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35307 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
