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Powerline Networking Standard Ratified

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John_Keck

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The IEEE Standards Association has recently ratified the Broadband over Powerline standard. Now that it’s globally recognized, we should really see adaptation of the tech flourish; I’m anxious just thinking of the home networking possibilities.
With a base router (wired or wireless) unit and a couple extenders (again, wireless or 1-4 port ethernet extenders) you have all you need. You simply use the router as you would any other, and plug a remote into whatever outlet is conveniently near where you want a PC or have bad wireless signal in your home. The technology sends out ethernet (up to 500Mbps) through your power line. The Wi-Fi extender is just as simple. Bad signal in a corner bedroom? Not anymore, with just a little remote box plugged into the wall outlet.
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Our current power line infrastructure needs a serious upgrade before this is rolled out.
BPL causes some heavy EMI that disrupts radio signals.
 
have not yet experienced anything good concerning networking over powerline, in 5 different homes, the best I could get was 400-500Kb/s copy speed, compare that to a nice 3000-4000Kb/s you get with most wireless G units...
 
The power goes out all the time where I live, my internet is more reliable lol
 
niconx said:
The power goes out all the time where I live, my internet is more reliable lol
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Ha! I used to live in a place like that. I had my computer, monitor, and network equipment on UPS; the power would go out for a few minutes 2-3 times a week and I would just ignore it :p
 
I picked up a couple of these powerline devices from my local thrift store..
still wonder why someone would dump these,, they cost me a whole 3 dollars..
belkin powerline AV models... I noticed that they go for almost 200 bucks a set... :eek:
but they work great,, i usually connect at 170 mb/s or more... wifi sucks in my area.. too much interference.
 
JMke said:
have not yet experienced anything good concerning networking over powerline, in 5 different homes, the best I could get was 400-500Kb/s copy speed, compare that to a nice 3000-4000Kb/s you get with most wireless G units...
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This is what I have heard about broadband over powerlines... If that goes away (or perhaps it has and I'm just remembering a stigma that no longer applies), then it will become viable from a speed perspective.

Bad - http://www.maximumpc.com/article/Zyxel-PL-100-Powerline-Adapter

Actually Delivers - http://www.maximumpc.com/article/Netgear-HDX-B101

Also supposedly BOPL doesn't play nice with surge protectors. Don't know how true that is. Going to wait for more information before I adopt anything involving it.
 
@ sovereign ,,
no they do not work through surge protectors, they have to be plugged directly into the wall outlet, because they contain surge protectors themselves.
i've been using them for about 5 months now, and i can say they are just as fast as plugging directly into the gateway. no problems so far.
 
This tech plus cloud computing would be nice..imagine a roaming profile where you could plug into any wall and get highspeed internet access.
 
eh, not going to be feasible, this will be another bust technology like wifi. europe, for example uses 240v power. one transformer is able to service hundreds of homes. they can apply the bpl device after that and provide service to those hundreds of homes. here with our 120v we have one transformer to service 4 homes. so the hardware costs are going to many more times than what it costs in other parts of the world.
 
Sorta exciting if just for home network use.

Very exciting if potential for power companies to offer ISP. Power grid goes alot more places then Cable or phone lines.
 
Also the power grid goes places where the Cable lines and phones lines dare note compete with each other.
 
I tried powerline a while back. I was very disappointed in it, and have since wired my home with cat6 cables.

It was too slow (note how they say "up to" in the speed spec) to stream HD videos from my file server to my TV, and whenever anyone used the vacuum cleaner, internet service would be gone.

It was a never ending nightmare of frustrations. I aam happy it is gone from my house.
 
I've been able to pull around 20mb/s between connections on other sides of the house.

Better than the 4-5mb/s I got with wifi-n...
 
Arcygenical said:
I've been able to pull around 20mb/s between connections on other sides of the house.

Better than the 4-5mb/s I got with wifi-n...
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Cat6 cables are really easy to route, and give you reliable Gigabit speeds all the time, not just when no one is using the vacuum cleaner /bathroom fan/insert other poorly shielded loud electric device here.
 
I was sceptical of this but I gave it a go. My house was built in 2005, so YMMV with older homes. I have the cable box upstairs and the computer downstairs; I get 35mb/s connection to the modem and have no issues with the TV on, vacuum cleaner, washing machine, dishwasher, etc.

Actually, it has been the easiest damn networking setup I've ever done. Plugged it in to two different sockets and it was up and running with absolutely no tweaking or screwing around required. I absolutely love it.
 
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