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BuriaL:
I dont have one of these things myself.

As for how they work(to my understanding).
You plug them into the power socet, like you do with all electrics.
The device sends a signal trough the power cables at a different frequency than the power (50-60Hz).
You need a router to connect to the 1st one, and you connect the 2nd one to the computer.

morrefule:

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--- Quote from: BuriaL on August 24, 2009, 11:05:23 PM ---Its not wireless, and it prolly cost some cash.

mmmenu..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=powerline+network&x=0&y=0

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I am probably being lazy in not looking it up, but can you explain how this works. Do I just plug this into a phone jacket and it will get me DSL or what? I do have a phone jack in my room. As for whether my house is new or not, it was built in 1999-2000 and it is pretty expensive (400,000 USD) and it is in a pretty expensive neighborhood (all houses here are now valued at least 600,000 USD , and most are more).

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LoL, the cost of the home doesn't matter.  But if it was built then you should be fine.  As long as it isn't a very large home, with TWO circuit boxes you are FINE.  I have used these a lot with Home theater equipment, and i use the Monster Power unit on my own system, and it works wonderfully.  Just don't expect blazing 1mbs download speeds, there is a Belkin that says it will do 1Mbs, but i have never used it Professionally.

Xtras:
Let me make sure I have the circuit box thing covered. I have one panel in the garage that has a bunch of switches that turns the power on and off in every room of the house. This is the circuit box right? If so, then yes I only have one.

Second, speedtest.net says that my download is 3.48 mbps and my upload is .5 mbps , but my torrents NEVER go that fast even when I am plugged straight into the router. I only get a max download speed of like 450 kbps and a max upload of like 70 kbps. It has never gone over that. First, why is my connection so much slower than what Speedtest is showing me and second, will the powerline system bottleneck my internet speed?

BuriaL:
Youre concern is how many main circuits you have. And how much range does the powerline network device have.
With one main power circuit breaker you shouldnt have to worry.

Using this type of network will bottleneck youre speed if it have lower capasity than youre connection.
Looking at the newegg stuff, they should have plenty of bandwidth.
If youre connection is only around 4Mbits i wouldnt worry. just read some reviews of the different brands and models and decide on one that seems reliable.

And the actual speed of an internet connection in kilobytes, is speed devided by 8. So for 3500Kbit / 500Kbit you get 437 KByte /  62 KByte. This is a rough estimate.
Mbps means "Mega bits per second", NOT mega bytes.


For speed you need to open the ports of youre router.
Configure the client(like utorrent) correctly.
Configure youre computer hardware and software(network cards, firewalls..).

And you have to consider the seeders youre connected to. If theres 5 seeds with crappy bandwith it wont matter if you have a 100Mbit fiber cable connection.

Xtras:
But considering that my room is right above where we keep the router, is the whole powerline network thing really any better than just a plain old integrated wireless controller?

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