Powerline adapters / New build home - Any leccys in the house could answer my question?

enigma27

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Hi all.

Is anybody an electrician or a very knowledgable person that might be adble to advise on the below.

If you are building your own home and are looking at the networking options for each room could you do the following with the elctric circuit if running network cable was not an option?

Circuit A - Upstairs lighting
Circuit B - Downstairs lighting

Circuit C - Downstairs sockets
Circuit D - Upstairs sockets

Circuit E - A single circuit running a single plug socket into each room just dedicated for plugging in a powerline adapter.

Reason I ask is some houses suffer from having power line adapters across mutiple circuits and loss of signal speed.

Would the above be possible and would it give you the best possible throuput on that one circuit and the adapters to each room?
 
If you were building your own home, why wouldn't you do it properly and have Cat5e and network sockets installed? It would be much cheaper (and faster) than Powerline.
 
Aye, if you're building your own home it's better to fit cat5e properly, much easier to connect to, higher speeds and many more uses than powerline :) (you can use cat5 for telephone extensions, speakers etc).
Also IIRC powerline shares the total bandwidth for all the devices, whilst cat5e with a switch effectively keeps the devices separate so that if you've got two devices doing a transfer they don't affect the others.

We're now using a pair of D-link 200mbs adapters across different circuits, one a normal ring, the other at the end of a longish armored cable and they have a 70mbit link :)
 
Yeah running a mains cable around the house for powerline is an insane idea when you can run cat5e (or cat6 if you wanted but you gain nothing) which is significantly cheaper, easier to do, faster, more flexible and quite simply far more sensible.

I don't understand how running network cable could "not be an option" yet a dedicated circuit and plug socket in each room is.
 
Yep i totally agree with you all.. hence my home is CAT5 wired up..

just something that came up in conversation with a friend
 
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