Jim Bell
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Saw an article today about this Netgear Powerline enet gadget. Anyone have real-time experience with this sort of connection? Link to the product page here.
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Joe Budge (W29)
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Anyone have real-time experience with this sort of connection?
Yes. It didn't work diddley-squat in my house. I fooled with it for a couple of days before giving up. That was probably due to our wiring: Our electrical system is best described as "interesting". Every technology known from knob & tube forward is represented. It'd probably work mo' betta with homogeneous wiring.
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Jim Bell
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Joe,
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Our electrical system is best described as "interesting". Every technology known from knob & tube forward is represented. It'd probably work mo' betta with homogeneous wiring.
Thanks, exactly what I wanted to know. Here, the lights dim when I boot the Falcon box, other interesting stuff too, depending on the season ;-)
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Mase Taylor [L.A]
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I don't have any direct experience with that device, but once I did try a Radio Shack thingy that was supposed to let you run phone jacks thru the power lines. My intent was to use it for DSL in a room that had no phone jack. Didn't work worth a hoot on DSL, the phone was ok for voice.
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Jim Bell
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Mase,
Thanks, the power line deal always sounded like a great idea, appears not so much, in real life ;-)
Here's one about phones... I refuse to put all my eggs in the ISP basket, so still have a landline. Looked for a standard corded landline handset recently? I did, the place I found it was at my supermarket, yesterday. Just a classic AT&T branded Trimline, but looking online, not much there!
Eventually, I'll post the 'Morgan and the MagicJack from hell' phone tale here, if I can put the story together concisely. Not much chance there, it being me, but I'll try ;-)
Always a wx comment, Spring! And Morgan called the other day, it was snowing on Whidbey (not sticking, way too warm) but she got a real kick out of it. Remarkable how relaxed folks get when they leave the SoCal area ;-)
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Jerry Kurata [KLVK]
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I think that might have made sense when wired was the only way to connect computers. But with the ubiquitous nature of high speed Wifi it is hard to see a reason for power cable based connectivity.
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Rod Madsen (KCLT/NC)
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Never used the one by Netgear, but I did use one by 2-wire. It worked fine, and it was needed because wi-fi couldn't get through.
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Mac Tichenor (DAL)
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Jim - I've been using an earlier incarnation, the Netgear XE104, for about two years and it's been very solid. The two units are plugged into different circuits, each on a different power distribution panel, with no problems. I use it to connect my home theater to the net (sat box, Tivo, Slingbox and xBox), and at under $100, it was a simpler, cheaper solution than buying Wifi bridge/router. Totally plug and play for me.
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p.s., about six months ago, I bought a new flat screen tv, and it has an internet connection (!). Since I was out of ports on the XE104, I did put that on a Wifi adapter. After playing with it a time or two I discovered that the content was worthless and the interface was worse.
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Jim Bell
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Jerry,
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...with the ubiquitous nature of high speed Wifi it is hard to see a reason for power cable based connectivity.
Yeah, but <g> I'm still G mode here for the WiFi, wired is still faster, especially for the video stuff I often bounce around. I've been using the 1394 connection between 2 of the PCs for video, that's faster yet, than going through the Linksys router (10/100 wired, all the cards do that or better).
The review seemed positive, I was trying to avoid buying a coupla more 25' cables, as I moved all the gear around after the refurb here. I'll get the cables, the power line deal doesn't seem like it'll play well here, especially reading Joe's experience.
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Jim Bell
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Rod,
Thanks, this place is some years past its prime, the wiring may be sketchy. Good to know it works for some, for the moment, the ole fashioned way is probably better for me. No WiFi issues here, just want fast large file xfer between machines, wired is better for my current gear.
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