Ethernet over the mains cabling (Powerline or similar)

[ed_pete]

Has anyone had any experience of these units where you extend your ethernet cabling via your mains cabling ? There are several brands about and for reasons to complex to go into here I'm considering one of these rather than wireless but was interested to hear if anyone else had used one and whether or not they're any good.

TIA

[jaybee82]

I've installed a few of these systems and I always make it clear that you will only expect to achieve roughly about 25% of your notmal network speed over standard single-phase mains cable. Many systems are advertised as achieving 85Mbps, but to get anywhere near that you'd probably have to get your house rewired! (many of the old victorian houses in ED are not known for their wiring).

Personally I'd go for a decent N-grade router and secure it right down with MAC addresses/high strength WPA2 encryption...much faster!

[Rhinestone Cowboy]

Develo Homeplugs Plug one into Main router and socket in wall must be in wall not extension lead. Then Other homeplug into Laptop/PS3 I am using these at the moment think around ?70 and happy with them . I am not running business nor heavy downloads just playing online games and laptop for browsing but happy and very easy to set-up 3 mins and I was online killing people in Japan playing Modern Warfare 2 Which for a 39 year old is something

[vinceayre]

Exactly the same Develo experience for me, except i was the one getting killed.