Powerline adapter, what speed do i need?

longwalks1

Am looking to extend my broadband throughout the house, and looking at Powerline kits. My incoming internet is only 15 Mbps (we do not have fibre optic unfortunately), so what speed Powerline kit would I need? Would I need a 1200 one, or is it overkill?

duchy

I'd go for the higher spec so when Fibre does become available you won't have to replace them !

longwalks1

Thanks duchy, do they have to be on the same electrical circuit? I'd assume so, but most houses people will use it upstairs, and 9 times out of 10 upstairs and downstairs are a seperate circuit?

pappa_golf

providing both the circuits are connected to the same fuse box , they should work


PS they hate working thru extension cables

longwalks1

pappa_golf wrote: »

providing both the circuits are connected to the same fuse box , they should work


PS they hate working thru extension cables

Thanks Papa, was wondering how it worked. And yes, have read a few places about not liking extension leads and prefering their own socket. I will be buying the 'pass-through' type as short on sockets anyway in the room we use PC in

JJ_Egan

Mine runs from an extension to upstairs socket .
To fuse board and on to the downstairs circuit .
Output drops from 32meg at source to about 23meg .

takman

I was looking at getting these but I decided not to because they really arnt very fast and cost a lot more than a wired network. I've just installed a wired network in my house to 3 computers and it only cost £42 including the switch. I get an actual speed of 900mbits between computers. So I would definitely recommend a wired network if don't mind installing the cables.

longwalks1

takman wrote: »

I was looking at getting these but I decided not to because they really arnt very fast and cost a lot more than a wired network. I've just installed a wired network in my house to 3 computers and it only cost £42 including the switch. I get an actual speed of 900mbits between computers. So I would definitely recommend a wired network if don't mind installing the cables.

Thanks takman, do you mean running in the telephone/ethernet cable to the room and terminating it at a new box on the wall? And would the cable used be capable to run fibre optic if/when its supplied to our village?

pappa_golf

no he means running cat 5 wires from behind the router to 3 locations and screwing boxes on the walls and a switch box next to the router.


unless "virgin" are coming to your village and offering "upto" 100 meg or 200 meg then do not bother.


the higher speed powerplugs are capable of replicating BT or sky or talk talks best plans




PS if you move your computer to another room , just take the home plug with it!


and they are available with wifi , which a £42 wired setup cannot achieve

edgex

britishboy wrote: »

Thanks takman, do you mean running in the telephone/ethernet cable to the room and terminating it at a new box on the wall? And would the cable used be capable to run fibre optic if/when its supplied to our village?

as long as you bought decent ethernet cable, more than capable, as it supports Gigabit Ethernet
(it's actually what connects all the equipment in the exchanges & data centres that IS the internet)


Not sure why you dont just go for wifi, then you can connect anywhere in the house & are not tied down to specific points.

As for Powerline
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2015/01/ofcom-propose-prosecute-owners-bad-powerline-network-adapters.html

stator

For homeplug 100mps is fine unless you're planning on streaming video over the network, or streaming large files over the network, for example if you have a media center PC in another room and want to stream HD video from a different PC, then you want the higher speeds the better. 300mps isn't expensive.