Homeplug

karl75

Hi What Price Should I Be Looking At For A Homeplug Set For Broadband To Send The Signal To My Receiver

zod

u need 2 to start with
if you are not streaming HD content .. just normal video and online gaming - 85mbs will do u
u can buy them for less than €70 for two here http://cgi.ebay.ie/2-x-85MBPS-SOLWISE-HOMEPLUG-ADAPTERS-LOWEST-PRICE_W0QQitemZ220174746496QQihZ012QQcategoryZ40995QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

watty

Moved from Satellite.
Real ethernet cable is better idea.

karl75

thanks lads ive got sorted with the homeplugs

randombar

Lads just bringing this up again, have 5 of these back in cork and think they're the job.

want to invest for my place in dubland.

basically wireless streaming from server to ps3 is a bit buggy and want to move to solid network.

85Mb is that enough? good enough price for them on ebay

http://computers.search.ebay.ie/homeplug_Networking_W0QQ_trksidZm37QQcatrefZC12QQfromZR40QQsacatZ11176

zod

GaryCocs wrote: »

Lads just bringing this up again, have 5 of these back in cork and think they're the job.

want to invest for my place in dubland.

basically wireless streaming from server to ps3 is a bit buggy and want to move to solid network.

85Mb is that enough? good enough price for them on ebay

http://computers.search.ebay.ie/homeplug_Networking_W0QQ_trksidZm37QQcatrefZC12QQfromZR40QQsacatZ11176

I find the 85mbs grand for gaming and SD video .. however if I was buying now (mine are 2 years old) I would get 200mbs versions if i had the budget, simply because hd is around the corner and bb speeds are about to reach 7.6mbs residential

randombar

Ya see that's where my confusion lies. Between internal and external. If it's "only" 7 meg coming in why do you need speeds of 200 meg around the house?? surely 85 meg will do?

and yes the eternal question of budget! hmm

the 85 are nice and cheap, 4 for 100 notes. there seems to be a big jump when you're going 200meg!

ethernet

GaryCocs wrote: »

Ya see that's where my confusion lies. Between internal and external. If it's "only" 7 meg coming in why do you need speeds of 200 meg around the house?? surely 85 meg will do?

and yes the eternal question of budget! hmm

the 85 are nice and cheap, 4 for 100 notes. there seems to be a big jump when you're going 200meg!

If you have devices on your LAN that can exploit a throughput of greater than 85 Mbps, say NAS using 1 Gbps ethernet. Accessing data on this machine would be throttled by the 85 Mbps connection (maybe not by much mind -- hard drives aren't that fast!).

randombar

Ya that makes sense, so the broadband connection to your house wouldnt really influence a decision on lan speeds?

zod

GaryCocs wrote: »

Ya that makes sense, so the broadband connection to your house wouldnt really influence a decision on lan speeds?

u get nowhere near the rated throughput I would divide by 10 for dependable garaunteed throughput.

google for reviews

"and depending on the length of mains wiring between units we got around 14.5Mbps to 20Mbps of actual throughput"

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/hardware/reviews/2005/q4/solwiseplug.html

I used these solwise ones and have NO issues ... however I did a the MS media center test and it came up well below HD capability

randombar

Ya went with the 85K ones. 4 cost me over 100 notes so that'll do for the time being!