Powerline and Playstation?

GtotheD · 2012-02-01 20:16:28

Has anyone here ever had any experience or knowledge of using a Powerline Kit with Playstaion 3? We've recently had the house extended, and Playstation and router are now at opposite ends of the house, out of range of each other. A quick flick through the Argos catalogue turned up this-…

01-02-2012 08:16PM

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Has anyone here ever had any experience or knowledge of using a Powerline Kit with Playstaion 3?

We've recently had the house extended, and Playstation and router are now at opposite ends of the house, out of range of each other.

A quick flick through the Argos catalogue turned up this- http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/9257737/Trail/searchtext%3EPOWERLINE.htm

The reviews on it seem generally positive, and Google is the same; all that's thrown me off at the moment is a warning from a lad I know (who I've not been able to get a hold of since; he's emigrated) who says they're not great for online gaming, something to do with sending packet data.
(This was the kind of lad who revels in confounding with big words and scary sounding abbreviations).

I've been offline for a fair while now, far too long in fact.
Your thoughts please?

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#2 01-02-2012 08:28PM

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GtotheD wrote: »

Has anyone here ever had any experience or knowledge of using a Powerline Kit with Playstaion 3?

We've recently had the house extended, and Playstation and router are now at opposite ends of the house, out of range of each other.

A quick flick through the Argos catalogue turned up this- http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/9257737/Trail/searchtext%3EPOWERLINE.htm

The reviews on it seem generally positive, and Google is the same; all that's thrown me off at the moment is a warning from a lad I know (who I've not been able to get a hold of since; he's emigrated) who says they're not great for online gaming, something to do with sending packet data.
(This was the kind of lad who revels in confounding with big words and scary sounding abbreviations).

I've been offline for a fair while now, far too long in fact.
Your thoughts please?

I've no experience with power plugs, but have read on here that they are great.
These are cheaper, http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-PA211KIT-200Mbps-Powerline-Ethernet/dp/B004INVKP4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328127933&sr=8-1 and there are probably cheaper ones out there too.

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#3 01-02-2012 08:35PM

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F1ngers wrote: »

I've no experience with power plugs, but have read on here that they are great.
These are cheaper, http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-PA211KIT-200Mbps-Powerline-Ethernet/dp/B004INVKP4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328127933&sr=8-1 and there are probably cheaper ones out there too.

Cheaper by far..!
Would you mind pointing me in the direction of where I might read any boards member's testimonials F1ngers?

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#4 01-02-2012 09:30PM

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GtotheD wrote: »

Cheaper by far..!
Would you mind pointing me in the direction of where I might read any boards member's testimonials F1ngers?

They were just general posts(could have been in the broadband/PS/xbox fora).

Couple of posts here, http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=71085271 - found them when I put "home plugs" into boards search to see what came up.

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#5 01-02-2012 10:52PM

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Op you can also get pass-thru ones so that you don't lose access to a power socket...

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#6 01-02-2012 11:12PM

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Thanks lads, that put my mind at rest. . And those pass-through ones would be perfect, I've already got an adaptor full us here. . .
You think fella that gave his 'expert advice' was full of it? Reviews seem to say so. . .

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#7 02-02-2012 06:12PM

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Never heard of pass through ones.

But I did use them once and they were excellent.

Wireless is less effective but too lazt to get them out again now that I have a wireless router.

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#8 02-02-2012 06:23PM

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I use Netgear ones with my PC. They're excellent. Consistent 80Mbps and no latency issues compared to when I used wireless.

These are the newer ones:
http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-XAVB101-Powerline-Ethernet-Adapter/dp/B001AGM2VI

I do get some noise on my crappy speakers from the network traffic on the mains tho.

EDIT: And there's a newer model again:
http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-Powerline-200-Adapter-XAV1501/dp/B005276QS6/ref=dp_ob_title_ce

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#9 02-02-2012 10:23PM

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if you do get pass through ones make sure they use the Irish/UK 3 pin plug and not the 2 pin us above ;-)

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