Main > Everything Else

Easy Ethernet in any Room!

<< < (5/6) > >>

patrickl:
Lol, yeah I could receive my neighbours camera (which they had pointed on their driveway) on our baby monitor TV.  Of course that meant they could also keep an eye on the baby  :P (although I turned the antenna away from them so it would be hard to receive a useful picture)

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shorthair on June 06, 2007, 04:29:21 pm ---Bonus. Only live is better. Course then you may have all kinds of other options.

--- End quote ---

They were fat and old.

Actually, I could have a use for usb over AC lines.  I keep my main PC in the basement and often it's too cold down there for a printer to function reasonably.  Causes real pain every time I want to print.  If I could keep the printer in an out of the way spot upstairs without having to have a whole PC setup just for printing, that would be pretty big.

Would such a device have to be on the same physical circuit?

EDIT:  ah, it's not even out yet. 

Guaranos:
I had something like that a few years back.  I used it for a month and found that my power bill had almost doubled.  So the next month, I plugged it in only when I needed it, and my bill went back to normal.  I called Linksys about it and they told me that couldn't possibly happen.  So the next month, I left it plugged in all the time and my bill went back up to almost double again.  The day after I got the bill, I sold the devices on eBay.

I'm guessing that's not the norm.  Maybe I had a defective device or something weird with my home's wiring, but I won't be risking it again.  On this house I spent the money and time required to wire the place for Ethernet.

ChadTower:

How could that possibly happen unless the thing was eating amps like candy? 

Guaranos:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 06, 2007, 07:10:51 pm ---How could that possibly happen unless the thing was eating amps like candy? 

--- End quote ---
No clue.  It didn't make any sense to me either.  I wasn't going to keep the thing around to investigate, though.  It was the only variable I changed during that time, and there were no major differences weather-wise between the three months I had it that would change my air conditioning needs or whatever.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

Go to full version