Homeplug questions

robjf

robjf

robjf

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Im thinking of getting some of the 200mbps Devolo AV homeplug products as the wifi signal doesnt appear to be good enough to stream from my Lacie Internet Space to my PS3.
My main question is whether the house being a new build makes it more or less likely to make this work?
At the moment the Internet Space is connected to a BT Homehub and then i stream wirelessly to a room upstairs. I intended on getting honmeplug, taking an ethernet cable from the Homehub to the homeplug, then from the other homeplug to a GB switch with the ps3 and the media server on it.
I thought this would be best seeing as both the Internet Space HDD and the PS3 have GB NICs.

Thoughts?

Regards. Rob
 
Should work fine mate, in a new build here and this is my speed from my homeplugs. Adds around 2ms onto ping time for gaming, nothing really.

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Using Zyxel 200Mb here, I would have thought new build would give you much better results than the old rubbish cabling I have in my victorian house, so give it a go :)
 
Will work fine. If they can go through a fusebox fine then i wouldnt worry about the state of the copper in your house :)
 
Thanks for the advise, got them this morning and they were incredibly easy to set up, and work great! Network is now much faster!
 
I am a real fan of this technology and am astonished it isn't more popular. Been using mine for nearly two years, almost forget they are there. Not sure what speed they are (85mbs springs to mind). As said, they just work :)
 
Yeh im surprised I havent got around to using them until now to be honest! They have removed the need for 3 network devices to use wireless (games consoles and desktop) by using a 1gb switch from the homeplug upstairs, and i have also plugged my NAS in to the switch so the PS3 now streams videos without any problems, sorted!
 
spudbynight said:
I have Solwise on my home network.
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I am using a pair of solwise 85mb ones to connect the 360 in my living room to my router in the study. Never missed a beat, very reliable and at a fair price. Never had any lag etc as a result of the plug.

The one by my router is plugged into a surge protected stack and this does not interfere at all, nor does my main house circuit board!

As per d brennan I'm a real fan of this too over wireless. With tv's/blu-ray players/micorowaves/fridges all needing internet these days I am surprised ethernet cabling is not built into new builds, surely wouldn't add much cost!
 
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I've ordered a couple of Comtrend adaptors, dirt cheap for 200mbps adaptors, reliability issues have been fixed too, will see if they're any good next week.
 
Don't waste the money on gigabit ones, the only thing gigabit is useful for atm is transferring files between systems, the 200mb home-plugs with 100base-TX network ports are fine for a PS3

I have 3 200mb home-plugs in my house, one connected to the router, another connected to the PS3 and a third in my room (on a separate circuit) connected to a switch which has 2 PC's and a HP Mediasmart server connected to it. Last night I was streaming a 1080p .MP4 video from the Mediasmart server to my PS3 while my PC was downloading Unreal Tournement 3 from steam at over 800KB/s and everything was working perfectly

Mine are just cheepo generic ones but any devices that conform to the Home-plug AV (200mb) standard should be inter-compatible
 
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