I had also tried power line Ethernet, twice. And, decided it was a failure....despite where they said the newer faster, were also more immune.
I did use HomePlug AV for my surround speakers for a while...but the transmitter died, and radio shack had stopped selling them shortly after I had purchased it... I was starting to look at HPNA, phone line Ethernet....but then I realized that my inside wiring was already network ready. I had heard about cable line Ethernet from friends with TiVo's....they say it works good. I didn't need to because my TiVo's are all next to the cable jack...where my cable modem is. And, I have a 16-port switch in my A/V shelf. I was on again, off again with wireless for the surrounds....first it was 900Mhz....even though I had a 900Mhz cordless phone then. Just set them to opposite sides, and it worked... I eventually got a 2.4Ghz phone....meanwhile the neighbors were starting to get 900Mhz phones...and eventually that ended. Plus sometimes I would hear them on my surrounds. I then got 2.4Ghz surrounds.....just had to remember to turn them off before using the microwave. But, then I got my first WiFi....it sounded like raindrops jumping around the speakers frequency band. So I ran wire down the middle of my living room...and put a rug over it (said the next apartment I get, I'd have a wall to run the wire along). I eventually got a 5GHz phone.... Next apartment did have a wall to run wire along...but then I moved here, and....there's a patio door in one wall... (though now I have wire going over it) I got digital 5GHz wireless speakers at first....but then my 5GHz phone wouldn't work. And, my own WiFi made it hard to use 2.4GHz phone. Around here I can see 40+ WiFi SSIDs on 2.4Ghz. (most of them are crowded on 6, with 1 and 11 being next. So, I'm using like channel 8....or 4....except there's a neighbor that always moves his AP to my channel soon after I move. Wish there was a tool so I could see what the 5Ghz spectrum looks like around here.... I now have DCET (picked it up during the Fry's excursion during LISA 2008.) On 04/19/2012 10:21 AM, Mr. Moore wrote: > Hi Unix_fan, > I must disagree with the power line Ethernet option. It > has come a long way, but there are some inherent issues with interference, > especially if you run motorized appliances, such as vacuums, air > conditioners, etc. Also, the circuits must be on the same phase. If not, > you'll never achieve a connection. > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: [email protected] Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
