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Ethernet adapter powerline experience
SludgeFactory
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I've been looking into picking something like this up:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_e?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=Ethernet+adapter+powerline&x=0&y=0
and I was wondering if anyone has any experience with these things and if they are actually all they are cracked up to be. It's a lot of money to spend on something if it won't work better than my current wireless signal.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_e?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=Ethernet+adapter+powerline&x=0&y=0
and I was wondering if anyone has any experience with these things and if they are actually all they are cracked up to be. It's a lot of money to spend on something if it won't work better than my current wireless signal.
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- Move the router closer to your computer
- Find a cheap router, install DD-WRT on it, then use it as an extender
- Buy extended-range replacement antennas (assuming your router has external replaceable antennas)
- Upgrade to wireless-N. The range is much better than G, and it might be about the same price as getting one of those powerline things.
Thanks for the reply, but I'm pretty sure range isn't my problem.
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Well, my house is a trailer house that was built in the mid 80's so that would be around 20 years ago. It only has one phone jack in it that is in a very out of the way spot, but tell me, how do you run the ethernet over a phone jack?
It was a joke; you'd have better than dial up connections over it, but nothing worthwhile. My point was that the ethernet over power would be worse. Since you live in a trailer, could you not run new Cat5 in/outside as you please? or do you rent it? Or are there parental restrictions?
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LOL, damn I am so gullible sometimes...what's that up on the ceiling?
I own it. I could run Cat5 in the place as I please, I just don't want to because it would basically be from one end of the house all the way to the other end. I'm a bit ocd when it comes to seeing cables strung out about my house.
I suppose I could maybe do what they did with the regular cable and feed it underneath the house through a hole in the floor all the way to the other end of the house. I fucking hate going underneath this thing though so I don't know about that...
Just do what I did, and tuck it under the carpet, if you have it. Along the walls preferably
If not you could hide it behind baseboards if you are that ocd about it.
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Data signals over power lines make engineers scream and cry.
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I've used ethernet over powerline adaptors before and they work like a charm. Used them to stream media to XBMC for a couple years. They can work far better than wireless because they don't hiccup or need configuration. (And the house I used them in was about eighty years old. The power lines hadn't been upgraded recently either.) When I tried streaming over wireless in the same situation my media froze every minute like clockwork when Windows decided to do its background maintenance scan for changes in the network state or availability.
So, which ones do you use? My wireless connection hiccups all the time and that is why I'm looking into alternatives. Would this provide me with a solid enough connection to, say, play SFIV online? I already can play it just fine most of the time, but every now and then it just drops me and that becomes very frustrating.