I traveled over the holidays to my Mom's. Her router is at the back of
the house and I tend to stay on the other end. The wireless is hit and
miss (so bad that my phone just didn't work on her wireless). So, this
year I got a WD powerline system. I just plugged one end into her
router (and powerstrip, not wall socket, which they claim you're not
supposed to do) and the other unit into my laptop and a nearby wall
socket. It worked great. I should have gotten a second wireless router
so I could have provided wifi for my phone (anyone know of a good unit
for that) that would plug into one of the ports on the WD unit.
The really good news is that this same WD powerline AV system works with
my NETGEAR Powerline AV stuff. I just plugged one unit into a wall
socket and instantly have 4 100 Mbit ports for internet connections.
This works much better than just depending on wireless at all parts of
the house...speedtest shows 40+ mbps in remote parts of the house.
Basically, I have 8 additional internet ports that can be in two
different parts of the house or travel with me.
Just thought I would report to the collective on recent Powerline stuff.
It seems this hasn't worked very well in the past but things seem to
work much better now.
