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HaRuMaN:
Yeah, I has having issues with WiFi in my house (2 stories) and got tired of messing with it.  The ones I use are NetGear.  I'm not sure of the data rate, but I got the cheap ones, and they are fast enough to stream HD video with no hiccups.

BadMouth:
I have an old powerline adapter made by slingbox.
I like how mindless setup is with these things.
Literally just plugging the boxes in and connecting the ethernet cables.
Haven't used it since moving to a place with big holes in the floor.   :P  
I was thinking about putting it in the current cab build.

They released a patch for it to prevent someone from gaining access to your computer through the electrical grid,
but I think it was one of those things that is theoretically possible but never actually happened in real life.

ark_ader:
The Power-line has protection similar to WPA.

I had two Buffalo G54A Routers MAC bridged before moving to the Power-Line.

Performance is like night and day.  Works fine with extensions and filters too.

Heck I remember the early Power-line wall warts that just shared your 33.6 modem connection.

ed12:
pbj
u own to many pinball's

ed

Mysterioii:
Just don't combine networking-over-powerline with power-over-ethernet or you might cause a rip in the space-time continuum...



--- Quote from: pinballjim on July 10, 2012, 10:57:48 pm ---I've never trusted the house wiring networking stuff but that's probably because I've been around too many brown outs.
--- End quote ---

I haven't messed with it myself but maybe I should...  IIRC it basically floats some relatively low-level noise on the lines so theoretically it's only looking at the high frequency component and is completely independent on the magnitude of the 60Hz component, meaning dips or dropouts of the mains voltage should be invisible providing your devices are all on battery...  At least I'd like to think they designed it that robustly, I've got no first-hand experience with it...

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