noob when it comes to powerline...

baldzone

baldzone

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Hi All.

Current set up;

1 Netgear ADSL modem (wireless) conected to a fileserver and my main rig via cables (2 spare network ports).

Use the wireless for my lappy.

I have a dedicated machine for itunes and occasionally video streaming at the opposite end of the house. Wireless doesn't reach this due to poor location/interference I guess. No matter what I do I can't get it to connect wirelessly while being reliable.

Am I correct in thinking all I need is 2 Netgear XE104 Powerline Ethernet Switch (for example) and that should allow all 4 machines to talk to each other quite happily?

Is this technology reliable? The house is about 40 years old with original wiring. Am I likely to get any problems? Most of the wires are in metal conduits. Will that cause a problem (pre fabricated concrete ex council house...!)
 
router is in my living room & from there I have it sent through a solwise 85mb plug to the conecting plug in the bedroom & then from there to a netgear switch so really yours should work.

router(wireless for lappy)---homeplug---through the wiring--homplug--switch--pc


(mine also goes through 1 surge protector then the fusebox then into another surge at the recieving end)
 
Not sure I understand why you need 2 powerline switch devices. It would work but the traffic would be somewhat bottlenecked at the switches as all data is put onto the mains even if the intention was to link to devices next to each other.

I suspect you just need 2 ordianry powerline/homeplugs to link an ethernet socket on your router to the itunes PC's ethernet port.

dont know about the metal conduit but is as likely to help screen the wires as cause interference.

beauty of powerline/homeplug is that it will take about 2 minutes to see if its works and most of that will be in unpacking the devices
 
What is the difference between the switch and the powerline? Is there any advantage over having a switch installed?

Thanks for the advice so far guys. It's appreciated :)
 
a switch is like a hub thats all, as I feed 3 pcs on the otherside of it I require this.. hence 2 homeplugs & 1 switch. I think a few people have covered this topic before & it includes me asking these very questions on 1 of them :D

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...ame=Netgear FS605 5-Port Fast Ethernet Switch

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...name=Netgear HDXB101 Powerline HD Starter Kit

these are just whats available at ocuk but many companies supply different kit, I have *** switch but own solwise plugs, think these netgears maybe better but check reviews of each product.

Kev!
 
One more question please!

Should I need to connect another PC into another room, would I need an extra one powerline or 2? i.e, one connected to the router, the other 2 connected to idividual machines in seperate rooms?
 
you would only need 1 more blug as they take the feed from the one connected to the router. If say the upstairs rooms are close enough just buy a long enough rj45 cable for a few quid & tack it to the wall & send it from *** switch to the nextdoor pc; cheaper in *** long run.
 
The frist ppwerlone/homeplug inserts a signal onto the mains you just add one more plug for each device and they each tap into the bandwidth.

Is very simple but it all traffic goes over the same line and most of the so called switch devices are not really switching packets just adding them all together ans shooting the data into the same line
 
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