Ive heard some bad things about the performance of the systems that use your electrical wiring; lots of interference issues and such. I've used an Apple Airport Extreme router (tiny things; the older models just plug into an outlet with no wiring) to repeat a wifi network- the setup is very simple, and they can be used as Airplay sites (they have an audio jack so you can plug speakers into them) and have a USB slot for an external hard drive or a printer if you want them on the network. I'm sure there's an equivalent with other manufacturers if you don't care for Apple's stuff (but its been very good to me so far). The setup is dead simple for the Apple gear.
On May 7, 2014, at 4:18 PM, Jennifer Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > (And I may not even have the above terms correct.) > > Just bought a house and it's large-ish and (more importantly) old, so the > wire mesh behind the 100-year-old plaster and lathe walls is interfering with > the wireless signal. Now, from what I can tell the simple wireless boosters > aren't usually anymore effective than the original wireless router for the > same reasons, so that's where I'm hoping someone can offer some suggestions. > > Does anyone have any experience with the plug-in access points that extend > the wifi through the existing power lines of the house (thankfully the wiring > isn't a century old, that was updated more recently) and is power > drain/utlity usage enough of an issue to worry about? Or would we be better > off running ethernet cables and adding multiple wireless routers throughout > the house (figuring on 4, in that scenario--2 downstairs, 2 up?) and how > difficult would that be to configure? > > As for usage, when home we're online pretty much constantly on 2 laptops, a > tablet/smartphone or 2, and have been known to be streaming media in 2 rooms > simultaneously while each on said laptops, having ditched cable last year. > We're not online gamers or running any servers, but other than that I'd say > we're fairly heavy users and have the highest level of access Thomasville's > CNS offers. > > -- > Jennifer "Scraps" Walker > > The Helper Monkey Network > http://www.jenniferwalkeronline.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
