I was looking for a good power line adapter for my home and found this deal on msy. The cheapest option on staticice comes to $129.
MSY have got a sale (unfortunately ending today) with online order and instore pickup available.
Shipping option available around $3.
This one has some good reviews. Officeworks sell it for $199!!!!!
Nah, will only work within a household circuit. In fact if you have two fuses/breakers for power points, it wont work on all points in a house. The doohickeys must plugged into power points on the same fuse.
I have 3 working over two circuits with no problems.
See below, apparently some can now.
It is using your house power circuit to connect between the two adapter. So its not likely to reach another house. Maybe if you can run like a 30m power cord from your house to next door, but then its like the same running a network cable to next door anyways.
Maybe if you can run like a 30m power cord from your house to next door, but then its like the same running a network cable to next door anyways.
You'll be lucky to get your adapters to sync, much less anything close to 600Mbp/s. Powerboards/Surge Protectors/Extension cables wreak havoc on EOP adapters. They need to be in electrical sockets only; every manufacturer states that plainly.
No.
Ethernet Over Power technology cannot cross different power phases or dwellings. Newer HomePlug/EOP adapters can run across power points that are on different circuit breakers however.
Interesting, since when, and how?
Since I believe the HomePlug AV2 standard.
Though compatibility seems highly model-specific. Whirlpool's Networking sub-forum has plenty of threads on EOP adapters on differing circuit breakers as well as talk on how different types of GFI/AFCI breakers can improve EOP adapter performance.
I am curious about this too. But I'd just buy one and try, return it if it doesn't work. It works between different units of an apartment in my case
If you have foxtel you can call them up and get the same for free (if you haven't already)
Damn! Looks like its the same one at a cheaper price :/ … too bad, that deal was gone!
I have this and the speed is much better than wireless n.
Both are plugged to powerboard extension (not directly to wall socket) and it works perfectly.
Anyone have an idea on real world speeds?
We recently got Telstra 100mbit cable and directly into the modem we get 102Mb/s on speedtest.net
The PC's on the other end of the house (which are used the most) are currently connected using a set of Netcomm NP204's (200Mbps PoE) and they can get anywhere between 45Mb/s and 60Mb/s on speedtest.
Will one of these increase the speeds to 100Mb/s? Or is getting an electrician to run a Cat5e/Cat6 cable through the roof the only option? Feels silly paying for 100Mb/s and not utilizing it 90% of the time.
Cheers
According to SmallNetBuilder, average downlink throughput for EoP adapters are as follows:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/charts/powerline/view
200Mbps adapters with Fast Ethernet ~ 40-60Mbps throughput
500Mbps adapters with Fast Ethernet ~ 70-75Mbps throughput
500Mbps adapters with Gigabit Ethernet ~ 80-85Mbps throughput
600Mbps adapters with Gigabit Ethernet ~ 130-170Mbps throughput
1000Mbps (& greater) adapters with Gigabit Ethernet ~ 150-220Mbps throughput
Note: At time of posting, 1000Mbps (& greater) adapters were not available in Australia.
The figures above are fairly accurate; here's a graphical comparison of a few different brands of EOP Adapters. The same adapters are in the lead on that graph as they are in the rankings on SmallNetBuilder; the TrendNet and Zyxel.
I had the np504 (500mbps) before i tried the np507 (600mps) and to be honest the real world differences were basically the same. For my setup I'd get about 7.5mb/s on the np504 and I get about 8.5mb/s on the np507 so negligble difference. If however you are on the 200mbps adapters then definitely worth the upgrade.
Does anyone know the difference between this product and the $40 poweline adaptor that Optus offer with Fetch TV? Interested to know if l should upgrade to something like whatwe see here…
It was 99 a fortnight ago, almost brought it on officeworks price match, think I'll wait until the homeplug av2 mimo are out here
FYI price is still showing as $109 on MSY website so I went to OfficeWorks today and they price matched and got this for ~$103. OfficeWorks sell this for $199.
As at 25 July, NP507 is still available for $109 (with stock available in most MSY stores).
The deal should NOT be marked as expired.
I don't know the technicalities of this product so excuse me if this is a stupid question. Will this work between two houses next door to each other? If not, what terminates the connection?