Hi,
On 2/1/13 9:15 PM, Winterlight wrote:
When using a powerline network do need two powerlines for each IP
address ?
Do you plug Powerline one into the router and Powerline two into end
user device.. is that how it works? They sell them at 200Mbps and
500Mbps... do you really get those kind of speeds.
thanks
The power line devices are at layer 2 (in this case ethernet) for
transport. The devices them selves will normally request an IP vi DHCP
for their own management, but they do not route, just bridge.
That being said, this is more like an old school bus network, is shared
bandwidth, just like WiFi is shared bandwidth. So the 200Mbit and
500Mbit are really not "reachable" but you can still get decent bandwidth.
Also power line condition (how your electrical is wired) greatly impacts
bandwidth, just like walls and how the walls are build greatly impacts WiFi.
If the price spread is not very high, I would recommend getting the
500Mbit gear. I used the 85Mbit stuff at my in-laws house to replace a
wifi to ethernet bridge that was being flaky, and it linked at 40Mbit,
and it's getting about 30Mbit throughput.
It's best to install a switch on each end (or use the switch built into
your router on one of the ends, and a switch on the other end) so that
near by devices can just be straight cat5/ethernet instead of installing
"many" of the powerline devices.
-Harry
