[mythtvnz] Home ethernet over power ?

[Richard]

I have only tried the 14 and 85 meg ones.

Both were plagued with micro outages where they would lose packets for
100-200ms then come right. They didn't retransmit them so you got dead air
on voip and it played hell with the jitter buffer, and MP3's wouldn't play
properly unless I set the player to like a 2 second playback buffer. Xvids
were a no go on it.

I was trying it between a shed and a house and until I wired a socket onto
the same breaker that goes to the shed I was lucky to see 1 meg. Once on the
same breaker (no idea how legal that is) then it was going at 13ish on the
14 meg ones, and 70ish on the 85 meg ones - but same breaks in communication
kept happening.

Also I had no end of trouble till I found that you cannot have a wireless
accesspoint on the bridges if you are expecting to have a client PC roam
between them since they have no equivilant of spanning tree or infact any
mac address removal stratagies so they will not pass data for that mac
address till it expires from the unit that you roamed from.

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Criggie
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:12 PM
To: MythTV in NZ
Subject: [mythtvnz] Home ethernet over power ?

Hey all - kind-of off topic, but has anyone here used Ethernet over 
Power converters?

These are power plugs which convert your ethernet and somehow modulate 
it over the fixed power cabling in your house.  They're rated at up to 
85 Mbit and 15 units on a circuit.

However the specs say "All Homeplugs must be on the same power 
circuit" which I take to mean "all on the same length of cable from 
one fuse on the distribution board"

Does the signal stop at fuses/cutouts/boards?

Any other experiences?

More details on the product:  http://www.dove.co.nz/jump/3575
They're around the $200 for a pair.


If it was my place I'd just wire it with cat5e, but is not mine.

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