200Mbps Powerline Adapter Twin Pack

Gadgetman496

Extra Value 200Mbps Powerline Adapter Twin Pack




£39.99inc. vat


Overview
Product Description

* Universal supply works over a power line voltage range of 100 to 230 VAC 50/60Hz
* Support 1024 / 256 / 64 / 16 / 8 QAM, QPSK, BPSK, and ROBO modulation schemes
* Up to 200 Mbps on the power line
* Maximum logical network members is 16 including the CCo
* IGMP v3 snooping with multicast to multiple unicast support in CSMA
* Maximum of 6 IGMP streams from a single server to a single client
* Maximum of 8 distinct destinations for a single IGMP stream
* Maximum of 16 IGMP streams from one server to a maximum of 15 clients
* Maximum of 4 neighboring networks
* Programmable TTL - Time to live per channel access priority
* 64 bridged devices per station
* Frequency Band on Powerline 2-30 MHz


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cosgrove80

Would this work as a good alternative to the Xbox 360 wireless adaptor?

Gadgetman496

cosgrove80 wrote: »

Would this work as a good alternative to the Xbox 360 wireless adaptor?

Absolutely, yes.

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Placebo

any latency issues,
would it be better than wirelesS?

Gadgetman496

Placebo wrote: »

any latency issues,
would it be better than wirelesS?

I use it on my sons 360 & he says he finds it much better than wireless and has not experienced any latency issues worth mentioning.

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Fnz

Latency would be my main concern with these devices, too. I've heard it is an issue.

machalla

The electrical wiring in your house will affect this also as if its in poor condition you can get very slow speeds. Also connectivity across electrical circuits is an issue I believe.

So relatively new and ecent wiring you're probably going to be ok, if not you might have problems. no real way to know without trying it out first though.

keithclancy

I have 2 Cisco 200mbps Powerline adapters, bloody miles ahead of Wireless.

1-3 ms from from my machine on the top floor to the router downstairs.

Everyone has wireless these days and its not really something you can count on anymore.

**Edit**
Crap .. three prong plugs Would have picked these up, their in the Powerline alliance so would have worked with my gear !

Also .. BBC HD Streams just fine over them

Metal Head Hunter

Wait can someone please explain to me if you get 2 sets with this? Or just the one? It says twin pack but does that just mean theres the 2 plugs? Also if I'm understanding this right you plug one end into your modem and the other into wherever you want to set up your wired connection....yes?

Lawdie

I used these with an old netgear (dg834) router and PS3.
Much better than wireless. Worth the money, I paid double a year ago.
Never had an issue with online play or any negative feedback.

fish fingers

Metal Head Hunter wrote: »

Wait can someone please explain to me if you get 2 sets with this? Or just the one? It says twin pack but does that just mean theres the 2 plugs? Also if I'm understanding this right you plug one end into your modem and the other into wherever you want to set up your wired connection....yes?

Two plugs, one beside your modem and one beside ps3 or whatever.

paddydriver

Just be wary of any lightening touching down locally... I have found that any surge at all can fry these; they will continue to look like they are working but won't connect. Some of them can run fairly hot too.

I lost a NIC on PC and firewall last summer after a slight local surge that came in on the powerline adapter. Unfortunately they cannot be run on surge protector strips so now I have put the ethernet cable through a surge protector either end so worst I lose are the adapters.

py2006

Forgive my ignorance....

Can somebody explain to me exactly what they do? Do they speed up your internet connection or bring slow connections up to the speed they should be or have I got it totally wrong?

Thanks!

markyboy

py2006 wrote: »

Forgive my ignorance....

Can somebody explain to me exactly what they do? Do they speed up your internet connection or bring slow connections up to the speed they should be or have I got it totally wrong?

Thanks!

Different product but it does the same thing.

Kashkai

I have two netgear powerline adaptors and they are the biz for online play on my ps3. No latency detectable. Tried wireless and it was patchy at best.

suppafly

Can you use this to connect your Wii online too instead of using WiFi?

Also can you use these to connect your Sky+ box to the net or does that have to be with a phoneline?

byte

If the Wii has an ethernet port, it should work.

While Sky+ boxes have ethernet ports, they have no use currently.

yoshimitsu

hi, amazon.co.uk offers these for £55+shipping. they look pretty similar (and probably they actually are) but in this case you have 130 user reviews, most of which positive, that say they work as they're supposed to...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Max-Value-200Mbps-Home-Double/dp/B001AIKBB4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1277715902&sr=8-1

did any buy and test the specific products identified in this tread? can you confirm they work as stated streaming HD, palying xbox, etc

i have solwise 85mbps and they work well, right out of the box but in streaming video i'm getting some slowdown. would consider moving up to 200mbps (which i gather that they are actually capped at 100mbps beacuse the ethernet port on them is 10/100mbps)

any feedback greatly appreciated

snappieT

yoshimitsu wrote: »

did any buy and test the specific products identified in this tread? can you confirm they work as stated streaming HD, palying xbox, etc

I bought them and they shipped on Friday. Will report back here once I get them.

(I'm in a 21 year-old house, so I don't know how well they'll work)

Gadgetman496

snappieT wrote: »

I bought them and they shipped on Friday. Will report back here once I get them.

(I'm in a 21 year-old house, so I don't know how well they'll work)

I'm in a 24 year old house and they work perfectly, hopefully it will be the same for you snappieT.

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Making It Bad

I have the amazon ones posted, they are amazing. I tried for ages to get wireless to work for online gaming in my home to no avail. Now I have these things and can play anywhere in my house. The router is on the third floor of a three story house and I can still have zero lag games on the bottom floor. Soooooooooooo much better than wireless.

livEwirE

Should I be concerned about powerline adaptors (PLA) causing short wave radio interference before purchasing these? It seems to be becoming a HUGE problem in the UK! OFCOM have even become involved.

jimmycrackcorm

livEwirE wrote: »

Should I be concerned about powerline adaptors (PLA) causing short wave radio interference before purchasing these? It seems to be becoming a HUGE problem in the UK! OFCOM have even become involved.

I think you might be mixing this up with the similar technology for broadband over power lines i.e. BB over the ESB lines outdoors. They have been plagued by problems with radio interference.

[EDIT]
Looks like I spoke too soon: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/28/ofcom_pln/

livEwirE

No I am not mixing this up. I am referring to the powerline adaptors for broadband connections which people are using in the own homes, not externally. Cheers for the link jimmycrackcorm, 'Nige' demonstrates the interference well in the video in that link. Strange that this issue is widespread in the UK yet our regulator doesn't seem too bothered

Check this out: http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1S7C2BQ6UJQ50/ref=cm_srch_res_rtr_alt_2

Does anyone know what frequency the adaptors in this thread operate at please?

snappieT

livEwirE wrote: »

Does anyone know what frequency the adaptors in this thread operate at please?

From the eBuyer page:

Frequency Band on Powerline 2-30 MHz

So that could potentially interfere with AM and Ham radio, but doesn't go high enough to affect FM.

livEwirE

Cheers for that snappieT

snappieT

Problem: eBuyer just refunded me for this order, saying that delivery failed (I used BT11AA as my postcode, as has been recommended here before). Big problem is that they only refunded the item, not the P&P of £9.95, so I am not happy. Going to try to contact them and sort it out, but won't be re-ordering.

Good luck to ant one else that ordered!

richardw001

snappieT wrote: »

Problem: eBuyer just refunded me for this order, saying that delivery failed (I used BT11AA as my postcode, as has been recommended here before). Big problem is that they only refunded the item, not the P&P of £9.95, so I am not happy. Going to try to contact them and sort it out, but won't be re-ordering.

Good luck to ant one else that ordered!

You should use REP123 with ebuyer
- BT11AA is something that will probably mean your stuff will go half way around the world for sport.

Gadgetman496

I ordered and received two sets without any issue but I do buy regularly from them.

I'd say it was that code you used that screwed things up.

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snappieT

richardw001 wrote: »

You should use REP123 with ebuyer

I tried that, and a few others for ROI, but it wouldn't accept them

Gadgetman496

snappieT wrote: »

I tried that, and a few others for ROI, but it wouldn't accept them

Open an E-Note with them, they are normally reasonable to deal with.

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IRCA

machalla wrote: »

The electrical wiring in your house will affect this also as if its in poor condition you can get very slow speeds. Also connectivity across electrical circuits is an issue I believe.

So relatively new and ecent wiring you're probably going to be ok, if not you might have problems. no real way to know without trying it out first though.

The issue here is how your house has been wired - if you have a single ring main serving the entire house, downstairs and upstaris then the adapters should work.

However in many older houses (and some not so old), the upstairs and downstairs have seperate ring mains - therefore you would not be able to use the adapters in an upstairs/downstairs arrangement with seperate ring mains.

bennyc

Just an FYI but I set these up for a mate who wanted wifi to strech to his shed, only problem is as stated before he lost the first set in a lightning storm. A good way of testing is to plug in baby monitors to see if an outside building is on the same circut.

glog

snappieT wrote: »

I tried that, and a few others for ROI, but it wouldn't accept them

Ordered these last Monday 28th ... arrived Wednesday 30th.

Used REP123 as postocde.

Cost £39.99 (Free P & P selected)

They work as expected. Recommended.

vibe666

if you're the sort of person who went out and changed all the bulbs in their house for CFL bulbs you might find a problem with these.

I'm 100% CFL in my house now (approx. 80% from Ikea) and when i got a similar set of these (although 85mbps, not 200mbps) i couldn't get more than 5mbps out of them.

part of the problem turned out to be that my upstairs plugs are on a different circuit to my downstairs ones, but the CFL bulbs were also a big problem.

in the end i just drilled another hole through the wall behind the TV where the sky TV cable comes in and ran an ethernet cable outside and back in upstairs next to the box I wanted to use with it and that solved all my problems.

snappieT

glog wrote: »

Cost £39.99 (Free P & P selected)

How did you manage that? If I select free P&P (when using REP123 postcode), it kicks me back out and forces me to pay for the £9.99 postage.

Price of the item has gone up £10 so I'm only trying to get what I ordered for the price I should have paid!

glog

snappieT wrote: »

How did you manage that? If I select free P&P (when using REP123 postcode), it kicks me back out and forces me to pay for the £9.99 postage.

Price of the item has gone up £10 so I'm only trying to get what I ordered for the price I should have paid!

I can't remember exactly but I think there was a drop down menu with Delivery options.
One of them was something like 'SuperSaver' or 'Within 5 days' and it doesn't add any delivery charge.

Spudzzmurphy

glog wrote: »

I can't remember exactly but I think there was a drop down menu with Delivery options.
One of them was something like 'SuperSaver' or 'Within 5 days' and it doesn't add any delivery charge.

Bang on,just do as stated above;)