Homeplug question.....

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Do any brand homeplugs work with any other brand homeplugs?

If i bought a decent netgear pair and then bought 2 crappy ones would they all still connect together ok or do they need to be matching?

Cheers
 
No they dont need to be the same manufacturer.. They need to use the same chipset which a lot do. Netgear however dont >.<

Netgear use DX2
The majority of other makers use Homeplug AV (Intellon)
 
what i should have said was they can be different but if you want to mix and match your better doing it in pairs get 2 of one brand and 2 of another should be fine but dont get 2 of one brand and then say 1 of another as i have read it can cause them not to link very well
 
Cheers, seems difficult to find decent pass-through ones :( anyone recommend some good pass-through homeplugs? I need 3, maybe 4 but only 2 really need to be pass-through ones.
 
I went for the Netgear XAVB2501-100UKS, the software tells me they're connecting together at 125mb/s which is more than acceptable.

Now i bought the kit that comes with 2 of them to test them out, and now i've decided I'm happy with them, but i seem to have shot myself in the foot in that they don't sell them in individual packs, they only do them in pairs >_<

So i now need a 3rd adaptor to go with them but it looks like getting the same model isn't possible, i don't want to spend too much so can anyone recommend me one that will work with that model netgear?

Cheers
 
I bought some comtrend 902 from a lass at a car boot for 5 pounds, I asked the lass and she said she had just moved into the flat and did not have a use for them , the BT set them up so she just brought them along with her on the car boot :-) and there 100MB and work great :-)
 
siege2 said:
I bought some comtrend 902 from a lass at a car boot for 5 pounds, I asked the lass and she said she had just moved into the flat and did not have a use for them , the BT set them up so she just brought them along with her on the car boot :-) and there 100MB and work great :-)
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That's wonderful but doesn't really answer my question :p
 
devolo homeplugs are the ones i use when doing this for friends and family - they've not let me down yet. They are expensive, but you get what you pay for
 
Spudgun said:
devolo homeplugs are the ones i use when doing this for friends and family - they've not let me down yet. They are expensive, but you get what you pay for
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I bought expensive brands until I was reading a forum where they said that with homeplus, you pay for the brand not the quality, I'm sure the Devolos will be more well made than mine but I wouldn't think it would be worth the extra expense.

Bought an 85mbps pair and have not let me down and they were only £34.99
 
Just got a pair of 200Mbps pass-throughs from another etailer (their value range or something). They connect quite happily to Devolos.
 
I got a pair of Netgear XAV101's 200mbps, I can confirm they only work with the exact same model. Tried with a another pair of the 85mbps ones and they didn't even read each other.

All in all the 200mbps ones work brilliantly :)
 
Nigel014 said:
I got a pair of Netgear XAV101's 200mbps, I can confirm they only work with the exact same model. Tried with a another pair of the 85mbps ones and they didn't even read each other.

All in all the 200mbps ones work brilliantly :)
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I don't think any homeplugs work together if one is 14 or 85 and the other is 200 or 1000 as they are different technologies, regardless of the brand.
 
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