With all these success stories, I thought I'd add a little note of caution. I started using the 14mb adapters a couple of year ago, as I was getting fed up with how unreliable my wifi link between my house and my garage (were my servers live) was becoming.
The 14mb adapters were brilliant to start with, I really was getting very nearly the max throughput. That lasted for a year or so. At some point they took a big dive in speed, so that they were only running at 7mb or so. I tried swapping them out, moving them around, unplugging all other mains devices in the house etc but they stayed stuck at 7mb. I can only assume that a new source of noise was added somewhere, in one of my neighbours' houses. I lived with that for a while, but after another few months the speed had dropped to <2mb and was becoming fairly unusable. At that point I decided to buy a set of 200mb adapters. I bought some Netgear ones first and they were completely hopeless, they just couldn't cope with whatever noise there is on our mains, they were no faster than the 14mb ones. I then tried the Devolo ones, they were better. However they don't get anywhere near 200mb, most of the time the best I can hope for is 20mb, which is much better than the 14mb were managing at least. I have since found what caused the drop from 7mb to <2mb, we added a set of wireless dimmers for the lights in our living room, which clearly dump some nasty noisy onto the mains (when I unplug those I can push the Devolos to 40mb or so). Unfortunately the dimmers are staying. So, powerline Ethernet isn't always problem free. I have probably now spent as much time messing with it as I did with wifi before. When I get time I'll probably go back to what I had before wifi, i.e. real Ethernet. But that involves punching a hole through the office/garage wall again and making it much neater than before ;) -- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? I SAID ALL OF THEM ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andynormancx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17417 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27990 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
