Any of you folks have experience with it? I'm choosing it over a wireless bridge to connect another piece of ethernet only hardware. I bought the 85Mbit/s (theoretical) variety.

I'm guessing someone's used it for an Xbox or PS3?

3/3/2008 10:39:21 PM

not that great, expensive, theoretical is right. there are similar systems for wireless telephone lines.

[Edited on March 3, 2008 at 10:43 PM. Reason : you can always return it.]

3/3/2008 10:42:41 PM

whoops--move to tech talk

3/3/2008 10:46:34 PM

did someone say compound semis?

oh, no, they didn't.

3/3/2008 10:48:50 PM

bttt (in the correct section)

3/4/2008 8:13:33 PM

Just received it and had it working in 5 minutes

Looks like it'll do the job for what I need

3/12/2008 4:59:38 PM

The plugs have to be (or at least should be for best performance) on the same circuit breaker right?

3/12/2008 11:32:34 PM

i've used them before. they work great, especially for internet access uses...which is all most care about.

3/13/2008 7:25:38 AM

they are great to use when wireless isnt an option

3/13/2008 8:00:01 AM

what kind of speed can you expect through them?

3/13/2008 8:15:26 AM

They can be anywhere as long as there on the same side of the transformer. HOWEVER, that being said, any splice point in the line provides some loss and any degraded switch or component that may be arcing will trash the signal. Also triacs, motors, etc that will generate harmonics back on to the line may be troublesome (i don't know how well that standard deals with them).

SO, if your house shares a transformer with others (which most do) your neighbor can get in on your action.

85 Mbps sounds like a reasonable number. This technology works alot like BPL (broadband over power line) and an older system we have where I work operates at ~10Mbps.

3/15/2008 5:32:30 PM