Xbox live/Bt Infinity/Homeplug??

piggybankrupt

Has anyone had good results with Xbox live using a homeplug??
Just about to have BT Infinity installed but the Homehub will have to be moved downstairs next to main phone socket (currently on upstairs landing).
My son has an ethernet cable running out of his bedroom door to the homehub at the moment and our choices are having to run a longer ethernet cable somehow down stairs or use a homeplug.

My real question is if we get 20mb on Infinity do the homeplugs deliver the same or will it be reduced by the time it gets to the xbox.

The whole point of getting Infinity is to stop the lagging he keeps getting on his Xbox live games - if anyone else is on You tube or whatever on another computer he gets lags.
Just want to choose the right thing to prevent this as much as possible. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

jayme1

in theory an ethernet cable is best as it connects the xbox directly to the router.

ethernet will give full 100Mbit (the maximum the xbox ethernet plug can go) the homeplug most are 85Mbit (some are 200Mbit) and your internet will be 20Mbit so all in all either an ethernet or homeplug should have more than enough overhead to get the full internet speed through.

as far as I know homeplugs can also be affected by how good quality your house wireing is but shouldnt really affect it that much,

I would ask BT when they install it if they can give you a long ethernet wire for the xbox (they may not be able to but it is worth a punt)

piggybankrupt

Thanks very much, now to make the choice....

HO87

Xbox used on Homeplug 85mbps for the last 3 years without issue. Far more secure than using wireless and a lot cheaper than trying to cat5 it. Presumably there is a 3-pin socket close to the xBox and one that will be near to the repositioned router. Use Homeplug to make the connection between the two and there will be absolutely no need for a long trailing ethernet cable.

Hammyman

I'm waiting until Homeplug gets hacked. After all, it transmits a strong radio signal in the HF spectrum up to 500 metres away.

neilwoods

And it has 56bit encryption, plus hacked needs a homeplug, so chances are extremely poor

savemoney

Yes works fine for me. I use a homeplug that has for inputs I connect the negear plug to router and use electrical cable to the homeplug hub, I run wii, xbox360, freesat box, and blue-ray place all from it with no problems. I do have up to 200Mbps homeplug and dont use a extension cable as thats a non no

Hammyman

neilwoods wrote: »

And it has 56bit encryption, plus hacked needs a homeplug, so chances are extremely poor

Thats been said about every electronic encryption since the dawn of time and they've all been cracked. Blu-Ray HDCP copy protection has been the latest along with the PS3.

56 bit encryption doesn't take that long with modern CPU speeds.

DVardysShadow

While the EM field on mains wiring due to Homeplugs may be quite high, it only allows you to read traffic which is passing - which is probbaly not very useful at not a lot of scope for making money out of hacking it. To do anything useful, you also have to inject your signal into the mains to get 2 way comms going. Not an easy one to crack.

piggybankrupt

Thanks everyone!
The room it will be situated has only one plug socket. I believe the infinity needs 2 sockets so that means the homeplug would have to be plugged into an extension - is that a no no?

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

You can get Homeplugs/Powerline adapters that have a pass through, so you don't lose the socket.