Powerline AV adapter PLE300

droidman

Got 2 of these in Curry's Galway at the weekend for €48 in total and seems a bargain so far. Got fed up of my wi fi speeds dropping a lot and being poor in general no matter what tweaking I did with 2 wireless routers. there are a fair few wi fi's in my neighbourhood so maybe there was interference I don't know but speeds have never been better. Best I ever got was 10 megabits off my upc 15mb connection on wi fi but often it would only connect at 1mb and would disconnect.

Plugged one of these into my router and another into pc and straight away I got the full 15mb down and 1.5 up. I even got 20mb on some downloads however that happened. Checked and it was 20mb so a big thumbs up from me!

http://www.linksysbycisco.com/AE/en/products/PLE300

Hogzy

How many plug adapters did it come with?

droidman

Hogzy wrote: »

How many plug adapters did it come with?

Just one each. It's ideal if you only want one connection in the house but for the price it seems pretty good to me.

witnessmenow

If anyone needs a 3rd one of these, amazon sent me one by mistake that i never bothered to send back. PM if interested

Hogzy

PM sent

degsie

droidman wrote: »

Just one each. It's ideal if you only want one connection in the house but for the price it seems pretty good to me.

You could plug the 'far' end into a switch and have multiple devices plugged into the switch.

peckerhead

Would these be compatible with my existing HomePlug 1.0 Turbo units, or is HomePlug AV a different standard?

Do-more

peckerhead wrote: »

Would these be compatible with my existing HomePlug 1.0 Turbo units, or is HomePlug AV a different standard?

I doubt that they are compatible as these are 200mbps and the 1.0 Turbo are 85mbps.

davoxx

so they were 24 euro each?

Agent67

Sorry people, what's exactly does this do, I have an networked hard drive already that connects to my laptop and ps3, sorry.

degsie

Agent67 wrote: »

Sorry people, what's exactly does this do, I have an networked hard drive already that connects to my laptop and ps3, sorry.

Connects your 'stuff' over you house mains wiring...

A simple diagram may help.

Agent67

So can you play your console in a different room and do you need one on your router, one on your playstation/tv and one in your tv in the other room ?

Do-more

Agent67 wrote: »

So can you play your console in a different room and do you need one on your router, one on your playstation/tv and one in your tv in the other room ?

Yes.

It's a way of creating a wired network via the buildings electrical wiring rather than going to the expense of re-wiring the house with Cat5 cable. So you will need one unit at the router to feed into the electrical wiring and one unit at each of the exit points.

If you are going to do this I would suggest buying (or at least opening) only two units first and test them at the different outlets you want to use. If the house's wiring is of poor quality or the sockets are on different circuits they may not work.

Matt Simis

FYI: According to PCWorld/Curries in Dublin they dont sell Linksys Powerline products at all, but may do in Galway.

wait4me

Matt Simis wrote: »

FYI: According to PCWorld/Curries in Dublin they dont sell Linksys Powerline products at all, but may do in Galway.

Funny - they obviously don't know what they stock! I was in Liffey Valley yesterday evening (looking for these) and while they didn't have these adaptors they did have a Linksys Powerline product (I think it was this -Linksys PowerLine PLTS200 4-Port) on the shelf.

Dexterm99

I love these. I am using four homeplugs throughout my house, with two routers and a switch. One set is 85mb and the other is 200mb so they are not combatible. But if you connect two of them from a router (1 of each type) then you will be able to use all four (but you can only connect three devices). Add a switch or router in another room and you are laughing.

I haven't see it mentioned but homeplugs HAVE to be plugged directly into the mains wall socket to work properly so no power strips.

Matt Simis

Dexterm99 wrote: »

I haven't see it mentioned but homeplugs HAVE to be plugged directly into the mains wall socket to work properly so no power strips.

I had 2 85Mb/s ones bought years back and worked just as well on the power strips as direct. Didnt seem to make any difference. One of them died (obviously unrelated) eventually so I ran Cat5e Gigabit wiring instead.

To my earlier post, it was Curries in Blanch that didnt have these and said they dont carry the brand.

Dexterm99

Matt Simis wrote: »

I had 2 85Mb/s ones bought years back and worked just as well on the power strips as direct. Didnt seem to make any difference. One of them died (obviously unrelated) eventually so I ran Cat5e Gigabit wiring instead.

I did try a powerstrip once but noticed a significant performance decrease.

byte

I think it was moreso power strips with anti-surge circuitry that affected them?

Dexterm99

byte wrote: »

I think it was moreso power strips with anti-surge circuitry that affected them?

Correct, it had anti-surge. So for anyone thinking of buying them, you might want to ensure you plug it into a double socket at least. That's just my experience with them.

savemejebus

Was in Curry's limerick this afternoon and picked up 2 x Netgear XAV101 200mbps powerline adaptors for €15 each. They were on clearance there so it might be worth checking that model in other stores too.

suppafly

savemejebus wrote: »

Was in Curry's limerick this afternoon and picked up 2 x Netgear XAV101 200mbps powerline adaptors for €15 each. They were on clearance there so it might be worth checking that model in other stores too.

wow thats really cheap. Will have to take a look in currys tomorrow for them.

ibFoxer

Dexterm99 wrote: »

I haven't see it mentioned but homeplugs HAVE to be plugged directly into the mains wall socket to work properly so no power strips.

I dont think that is necessarily true, i have 4 Devolo 85mps in use, one is from my router into a Belkin 4-way powerstrip. What i have noticed is that if you do want to use them in a plug extension or trailing socket, make sure to use one that is high branded, i failed with different branded ones before settling on the Belkin one.

BArra

none of any of these in cork store, only ones for 99e

which are not a bargain :rolleyes:

Fnz

Dexterm99 wrote: »

I did try a powerstrip once but noticed a significant performance decrease.

HA!

I choose to take that entirely out of context, thank you very much.

Dexterm99

foxerv1 wrote: »

I dont think that is necessarily true, i have 4 Devolo 85mps in use, one is from my router into a Belkin 4-way powerstrip. What i have noticed is that if you do want to use them in a plug extension or trailing socket, make sure to use one that is high branded, i failed with different branded ones before settling on the Belkin one.

I have had 4 different sets of home plugs over the years and every manufacturer says the same thing, if you want the best performance out of homeplugs then plug them directly into a wall socket. No where have they mentioned that certain brands of powerstrip (even their own) will work with a home plug, which you think they would if they worked. I think the approach of plugging into powerstrips, surge protectors etc is risky if you want every megabyte that you have paid for.

po0k

Anything that introduces noise into the electrical wiring (ie. washing machine, crap AC-DC power bricks, amplifier) between the powernet adapters is going to interfere with signals.
It decreases the Signal-to-Noise ratio. Same as any communications medium eg. WiFi.
This is why they recommend you plug them directly into the wall, less possibility of other things introducing noise in the path.
Course, if the wiring in your house is also crap, you're not going to get much mileage.

Also, having more than two of these devices is a hub topology, the bandwidth is shared between all connected powernet devices for both send and receive because the wiring is a shared medium.
Again, just like WiFi.

ibFoxer

Dexterm99 wrote: »

I have had 4 different sets of home plugs over the years and every manufacturer says the same thing, if you want the best performance out of homeplugs then plug them directly into a wall socket. No where have they mentioned that certain brands of powerstrip (even their own) will work with a home plug, which you think they would if they worked. I think the approach of plugging into powerstrips, surge protectors etc is risky if you want every megabyte that you have paid for.

I actually don't disagree, but i have found that when using the Belkin adaptor as opposed to a generic branded one, i get almost the same speed as i do when wired from router to pc.

As it is, i'm just sharing my experience, but i do agree that if you have a spare socket to plug directly into then that is the definite route to go. Must actually get my socket changed to a double.

long_b

This may be good value - from ebuyer.com

It's a no-name brand

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/160665

Overview
Product Description
These 200Mbps homeplug adapters can provide the transmission of broadband data service via power line, which are suitable for use in a wide range of both residential (in-home) and commercial (offices, apartments, hotels, warehouses) network applications in which existing power lines can be utilized. There is never any need to install new wires. These adapters enable the effortless creation of a high-speed network that supports video, voice and data.


•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

Just use REP123 as the post code and enter any valid UK number (eg eBuyer support line 0044 8715213300]

Works out at about £45 stg

randombar

Amazon cheaper than that.

sk282

GaryCocs wrote: »

Amazon cheaper than that.

I bought these for a friend from Amazon and he seems to be happy with them so far even using on a powerstrip They are 85Mbs but just about €40 delivered (twin pack).