[GLLUG] Any thoughts on HomePlug AV?

[Nick Kwiatkowski]

HomePlug (from an Intel Home patent), works well if you are on modern
breakers, with minimal noisy equipment on your side of the breaker.  From
personal experience, I was pretty much unable to use it as every radio and
tv in the house started getting really weird interference (such as constant
static).  I also found that when my dish washer or fridge was running, it
was cause the network performance to drop to around 5Mbps.  I ended up
tossing it out for a Cat5 environment.  Running Ethernet is usually not as
bad as you might think.  Heck, I've got a 100+ year old house and I was able
to do it in a weekend.

 

-Nick

 

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From: linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu [mailto:linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu]
On Behalf Of Al Puzzuoli
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:18 PM
To: linux users
Subject: [GLLUG] Any thoughts on HomePlug AV?

 

Hi,

 

Just wondering if anyone here is familiar with, or has yet had experience
with the HomePlug AV standard?  I know that technology to convert your
powerlines to an ethernet network has been around for years; However, if
HomePlug AV is even half as good as its 200 MBPS claims would seem to imply,
then I think it's definitely an option worth considering.  I live in an
apartment where 802.11G barely works.  Sure, 802.11N is just around the
corner, but how nice would it be to be able to  do things like PXE boot from
anywhere in the house, or install a linux distro, and have immediate
Ethernet connectivity from any room?

Anyway, this is something I'm seriously considering, but was just curious as
to whether anyone else has jumped in yet.  More info can be found here:

 

http://www.homeplug.org

 

--Al

 

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