• Home networking woes...Will this fix it?
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I get shit wifi throughput at home, I live in a townhome so there are tons of access points and things causing interference. Will I see improvement with this? Is this a good deal? [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704077&cm_sp=DailyDeal-_-33-704-077-_-Product[/url]
Try it, Garry used them for a time and said they work well.
I figure I can run a CAT5e from the PC having speed issues to this thing, then upstairs, plug one into the wall and run a CAT5e from it into the router. Should bypass the signal interference between floors. After that, I am within view of the router. So should be basically like running CAT5e through the house. [editline]13th November 2012[/editline] [URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127386[/URL] What about this one? Not seeing an Ethernet jack on it, unless it's just not shown? And another option... [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122328[/url]
Top one looks better. Yeah they use Ethernet ports.
How good is the signal transmission through the lines in the house? Might look into getting some of these myself..
EoP adapters are hit or miss. I've tried them in the past multiple times and they either were mediocre or abysmally terrible. The last install I tried was between two machines in the same room on the same circuit (guy didn't want a hub or wires going everywhere.) The second PC had 2000+ ping to the first one and only transferred data at 0.5 Kb/s.
[QUOTE=bohb;38445641]EoP adapters are hit or miss. I've tried them in the past multiple times and they either were mediocre or abysmally terrible. The last install I tried was between two machines in the same room on the same circuit (guy didn't want a hub or wires going everywhere.) The second PC had 2000+ ping to the first one and only transferred data at 0.5 Kb/s.[/QUOTE] Well I mean my house is five years old if that helps. Maybe the instance you're talking about had old, faulty wiring.
Five year old electrical wiring sounds perfect, assuming the wiring is up to standards. I used a set of home plugs and only saw 15Mb/s of a 60Mb/s incoming speed (actually measured to be 60Mb/s) on a par of home plugs rated 150Mb/s. They werent cheap, either, so it really is luck usually. I opted for CAT5 cable running from the router to the PC directly, much better and much cheaper too Also, if your homeplugs are on the same wiring loop, you'd get much better speeds. Downstairs and upstairs socket wiring is usually on separate loops, but you can confirm this by looking in your fuse box for separate fuses labelled upstairs/downstairs. Be aware the signal of the homeplugs themselves has been known to be picked up from other residences, though I can't confirm this and I don't know the theory behind it [editline]15th November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=faze;38443584] And another option... [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122328[/url][/QUOTE] The one I had was a more expensive version of this by the same brand, and it was terrible. IMO you should play it safe and go for direct CAT5 unless you can risk the disappointment
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