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robmar0se

I am not familiar with the Sony BDP-S185 player, but it does have an ethernet socket right?

As these homeplugs need no configuration the Sony BDP-S185 player. would think it was directly connected to the router.

My main PC is connected to my router via a homepug setup (router is upstairs) - speedtest on my PC gives 6.2mbps download on a BT adsl line, about half a mile form the exchange - quite happy with that. No problems streaming.

Suggestion: Buy from Amazon, try them out, if they don't do the job etc, just return them - Amazon are brilliant with returns. Also the guys at solwise are very helpful (small company), and I'm sure if you asked they would take back too - 0845 458 4558

ccluedo

Thanks again everyone, will have a chat with him. He hasn't bought the player yet and may not want to spend out on homeplugs on top...but I'll give him those options and let him decide.

fiddiwebb

ccluedo wrote: »

Crikey, what's the difference between the £94.60 one and the £4.80 one on ebay?
Don't say £89.80

The expensive one I believe is straight stranded and the cheaper cable twisted, the twisted ethernet cable would be fine for what you want to use it for.

The connectors on the expensive cable will probably be more robust than the cheaper option but that really doesn't matter so long as you are not constantly attaching/removing the cable connector from the ethernet ports.

Just realised the cable you wanted was 35 feet not metres, so would be cheaper than I quoted.

12 metres ethernet cable ebay £2-£3 inc. p&p

Dave_C_2

Sigh.

I am always amazed by threads like this that advocate buying homeplugs at about ten times the cost of an Ethernet patch cable. This is Money Saving Expert after all.

At the end of the day what's so hard about running a cable around the house? Doesn't anyone do DIY any more?

Dave

fiddiwebb

Dave_C wrote: »

Sigh.

I am always amazed by threads like this that advocate buying homeplugs at about ten times the cost of an Ethernet patch cable. This is Money Saving Expert after all.

At the end of the day what's so hard about running a cable around the house? Doesn't anyone do DIY any more?

Dave

So long as the cable could be routed away okay, it is for the op's elderly relative so safety would be very important, ie. no cables to trip over...

smos585

Dave_C wrote: »

Sigh.

I am always amazed by threads like this that advocate buying homeplugs at about ten times the cost of an Ethernet patch cable. This is Money Saving Expert after all.

At the end of the day what's so hard about running a cable around the house? Doesn't anyone do DIY any more?

Dave

Message for Dave_C

Dear Dave (is it Cameron?)

You maybe very handy and can get a wire from one side of the house to the other, pull up floor boards, etc, all the things that may be nececessary if one doesn't want a a fairly chucky cable pinned to the skirtingboard/door architraves etc.

You may not have seen all the laptops with broken power jacks/screens because someone has tripped over the cable.

And in this case an elderly person and loose wires around the place maybe an accident waiting to happen.

Penny wise pound foolish sometimes comes to mind?

Best regards

ChiefGrasscutter

Proper cat5e cable is:
Twisted pair - ie each of the pairs in the cable is twisted round each other to minimise radio type interference.
Solid core conductor - no telephone voice or data rated conductor anywhere of any type is ever multi strand - that not to say is might work.
Short length (1 meter or so) patch cords of cat5e etc are allowed to be multistrand to make it each to bend them to facilitate easy connections

Cat 5e 'FTP' is additionally shielded with a metal foil round the lot before the PVC sheath is added....though to be fully effective the foil needs ONE dedicated earth. no, not the house wiring earth and multiple earths at each end of the cable(s) are worse than no earth.

Cat6 I'm not so familiar with - I think each pair is individually foil sheilded. I know its a much thicker cable than cat5e and more difficult to handle for this reason - and I think the wire size might be bigger.

I have lots of cat5e cable running round the house under floorboards etc, with RJ45 data outlet points in various rooms, all done in stages when each room is re-decorated.

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Wouldn't the DIY necessary to put a cable across the room cost more than £29? Not to mention how ugly such cable routing can look

Out of interest- does anyone know if you use these to extend a wifi signal around a large house?

robmar0se

smos585 wrote: »

Message for Dave_C

Dear Dave (is it Cameron?)

You maybe very handy and can get a wire from one side of the house to the other, pull up floor boards, etc, all the things that may be nececessary if one doesn't want a a fairly chucky cable pinned to the skirtingboard/door architraves etc.

You may not have seen all the laptops with broken power jacks/screens because someone has tripped over the cable.

And in this case an elderly person and loose wires around the place maybe an accident waiting to happen.

Penny wise pound foolish sometimes comes to mind?

Best regards

Well said.............I second that.

robmar0se

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Wouldn't the DIY necessary to put a cable across the room cost more than £29? Not to mention how ugly such cable routing can look

Out of interest- does anyone know if you use these to extend a wifi signal around a large house?

Ref 2nd para: yes you can, there are wireless versions. You need a non wireless version at the router end, and a wireless version wherever its needed.

I have installed such a network with 3 wireless plugs in a rather expensive large mansion, where the mandate was that they wanted wireless connectivity in every room. Works great, and have had no problems at all since installation.