Does anyone have any personal experience with Powerline ethernet?
I'm considering using it for a home network - well, network is a bit rich
really 2 PCs, one with XP the other with 2000.

Any sob stories, nightmares or suggestions appreciated.

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Jim PKP

Jim PKP said:

Never heard of it let alone used it, I just jumped in to say that the use of the
word network is ok in this instance.

Loads of sob stories and nightmares, as for suggestions, getting drunk and/or
laid sounds good to me ;-)

"Jim PKP" <jim@pkp.com> wrote in news:CTL%b.4874$rb.62796@news.indigo.ie:

I think it's a great concept. Other than that nothing to add but some links:

http://www.securitynewswire.com/cgi-...get=j128120710
http://www.homeplug.com/

Jim PKP wrote:
:: Does anyone have any personal experience with Powerline ethernet?
:: I'm considering using it for a home network - well, network is a bit
:: rich really 2 PCs, one with XP the other with 2000.
::
:: Any sob stories, nightmares or suggestions appreciated.
::
Any particular one in mind? I did use mains-based data links but they were
problematic. I had to put a low pass filter on the main building supply
(VERY expensive) and low pass filters on many of the outlets. And I live in
a rural area with little industry and hence little ambient radiated noise.
Wifi is now so cheap and it is so easy to make your own aerials, if needed
for extra range, that using the power cable is more fuss than it is worth...

You will have experience similar to what X-10 users suffer.
These problems are discussed often in the newsgroup
alt.home.automation . for example, devices with high
capacitance loads (ie plug-in UPS) will quash power line
signals. Signaling problems may require a bypass in breaker
box. An important tool for power line signaling is the meter
- a radio receiver that measures power of that power line
signal. This meter has located 'signal eaters' quickly after
the problem solver spent hours trying to understand a
mysterious and intermittent failure.

Better is phone wire networking. I believe the Intel
product is called something like Network Anywhere. It caused
me substantial headaches in a Windows 98 system - evening
interfering with Scandisk. But then those are problems
directly traceable to the kludge design known as Windows
9x/ME. Better to use phone line networking rather than power
line networking - technical reasons not explain for brevity.

Jim PKP wrote:

Jim PKP wrote:

No experience but they seem to work OK for a lot/some of people. Try it
and keep your receipts just in case:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...oogle+Searc h


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"Mike245" <user245athotmail.com@ignorethis.com> wrote in message
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I have the netgear powerline ethernet plugs set up at my house and they work
wonderfully. I have 3 Computers set up in the basement of the house and 3
on the third floor. All 6 can be going at once with no trouble. The only
problem is that your neighbors might be able to hook one up to their socket
and get onto your network, but most of the folks around here are elderly and
dont give a damn about that stuff

Any questions, feel free to email me at
genesisblue at attbi and then com

Adam




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