On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 at 09:13:29AM +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote:
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> I have also seen various issues similar to wireless where depending on
> your cabling etc. you will probably not get the quoted speeds. There is
> quite an overhead, similar to wireless, and you rarely get the full
> throughput. A guy I worked with looked at supposedly 100meg homeplug
> adapters but in reality they could not provide enough bandwidth to stream
> high def video over (which was the whole reason for buying them) despite
> in theory there being enough headroom to do so.
>
> I would say homeplug is a good replacement for wireless, but not a good
> replacement for ethernet cables and a switch.
I'd have to agree. HomePlug 200AV is decent technology and fine
for simple point to point use, e.g. browsing and email. It is more
reliable than WiFi but it is not a replacment for decent Gig
Ethernet over proper CAT6 cable.
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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
A feature is a bug with seniority.
-- anon
