Philips Network Powerline Kits

bobdauilda

maplin have the 200mbp Devolo ones one sale right now for £120 and use quidco for more off.

bobdauilda

HexusOdy wrote: »

http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/Search/SearchResults.asp?SearchColumn=&QSearch=philips

Looks like 3 deals altogether on Philips kit. You just plug these into a power socket to create an instant wired network. I find them much better than wireless...faster, no drop outs or inconsistancy. Shame I didn't see these a few weeks ago when I paid £70 for no name kit.

85Mb Twin Pack £50
85Mb Single £25
14Mb Twin pack £35

Compare that to say Ebuyer for a generic 85Mb kit at £70+ and its a pretty good deal.

not a bad price when you consider that recent tests on wifi speeds showed the following

These were the results:
PL14 - 14Meg Homeplug adapter: 7.5Mb/s
PL85 - 85Meg Homeplug Turbo adapter: 25Mb/s
PL200AV - 200Meg Homeplug adapter: 40Mb/s
54g Wifi - 14Mb/s
Interesting yes?! So this shows that 54g wifi was a long way from 54Meg performance even with a perfect wifi signal! When we moved one of the radio devices into the next room the wifi speed went down by over 30%! It also shows that Homeplug turbo is at least as good as perfect 11g wifi and, in our test, was actually nearly twice as fast. It also shows that 14Meg Homeplug is really quite good and certainly up to the task of most home/SOHO tasks such as shared internet access and simple file sharing between PC's. In fact I would guess that 14Meg Homeplug is perfectly adequate for 90% of home users that simple want to distribute internet access and, for those users, I would say that Homeplug Turbo is not worth the extra cost. The new 200Meg (AV) units are blindingly fast and, in our own tests, we were of the opinion that the measured performance might have been distorted to some extent by the PC's involved i.e. the PC's couldn't shift the data fast enough to keep up with the adapters! Something for the speed freaks to consider but way outside the requirements for the average home or office setup.


review- http://www.routertech.org/pages.php?page=55
Also cheap adapters here - http://www.solwise.co.uk/net-powerline.htm