Network over the mains starter pack £24.93

GDB2222

We have a fairly long house, with the wireless router in one corner, where BT installed the ADSL. Wireless connection at the other end of the house and on the top floor is patchy. That is despite our having a Belkin Pre-N wireless setup, which is one of the most powerful around. There's also a 12 inch brick wall that divides that section of the house from the rest.

Using the Homeplug system with one plug at the router and the other at the far end of the house, but on the same floor (so on the same ring main), gives an excellent, very reliable connection. Putting the second plug on the top floor does not work at all well. The top floor has a separate ring main, and indeed a separate consumer unit, although all fed from the same meter in the garage.

Hope this helps other people.

gromituk

Chriswil wrote: »

Save your money (well probably pay out a bit more for a mbp) and dump your windows only machine and get a real machine that runs vista in a window and enjoy Apples far superior operating system...

Or save even more and run the far superior Linux operating system - for nothing.

But seriously, the reliability of your wifi connection is very unlikely to have anything to do with the operating system you are running.

Hotblack_Desiato_2

On the basis that passing data over the mains causes at least some disturbance to RF/EMF around the wire, presumably you could place an inductor on the cable and pull off the data packets.

Best you use encryption then.

Totoriko

But how would a hacker get close enough to your internal electrical wiring to do all that?
I think that's a bit extreme to think a neighbour will hack into your electrical wiring just to get into your system. With wireless it's a different matter, the hackers just drive next to your house with a laptop and there's nothing you can do to stop them.

Sid_Harper

Are you suggesting people think they could beam themselves into my electric meter cupboard? That's scary, and you'd have to be very bold to go anywhere near my ring main.

bobdauilda

or indeed your main ring!! ;o)

itm2

Does anyone know if you can have two separate Homeplug networks running over the same house wiring? I already have a pair of Homeplugs connecting my BT Vision box to my BT Homehub. I now want to add a 2nd pair to connect my main LAN/Switch to a NAS in another room.
I can't connect the BT Vision box to this LAN as it needs to be connected to BT Broadband and I actually have two broadband connections - connected and load balanced via a dual wan router into the LAN. I haven't been able to find a way to get the BT Vision box to talk exclusively to the BT Broadband connection when it's connected to the LAN. It should theoretically be possible by binding the BT Vision MAC address to one of the WAN ports on the dual wan router, but this feature doesn't work on the router.

So has anyone tried two Homeplug networks on the same circuit??

mbriody

Just to get back on the original topic for a moment, the Maplin in Norwich city centre had about 4 or 5 of these packs on the shelf at lunchtime yesterday.

I picked up a pair for about £20 last time Maplin had these on sale.

GDB2222

itm2 wrote: »

Does anyone know if you can have two separate Homeplug networks running over the same house wiring? I already have a pair of Homeplugs connecting my BT Vision box to my BT Homehub. I now want to add a 2nd pair to connect my main LAN/Switch to a NAS in another room.
I can't connect the BT Vision box to this LAN as it needs to be connected to BT Broadband and I actually have two broadband connections - connected and load balanced via a dual wan router into the LAN. I haven't been able to find a way to get the BT Vision box to talk exclusively to the BT Broadband connection when it's connected to the LAN. It should theoretically be possible by binding the BT Vision MAC address to one of the WAN ports on the dual wan router, but this feature doesn't work on the router.

So has anyone tried two Homeplug networks on the same circuit??

As far as I can see, the homeplugs would all see each other and be on the same network. On the other hand, the whole point of TCP/IP is that packets get sent to where they are meant to end up, so it does not matter that the two networks are connected. Or have I misunderstood the original question?

Totoriko

Yes you can have multiple networks on the same line. I know it works for 85Mbps and 200Mbps adapters plugged on the same line.