I actually bought one from Aspley this morning but they are also available online, ideal for young houses (under 20 years) where you want to extend access to a computer/internet without wiring. I work for a distributor and these are well under half my normal buy price!
Ring the Officeworks customer service number and they will tell you what stores in the state you live in have stock if any!
Don't see why not? AFAIK it acts as a normal networking switch (or more likely hub) so should work with any internet applications.
can it be used with my TV?
Surprise surprise, not available in SA online..
Model is DHP-301 claimed to be up to 200mbps by DLink
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=533
How does this 1 works? Plug and connect the RJ 45 and it's ready for use?
that's my understanding of EoP
How does this 1 got access to internet if it's not connected to any modem?
One point will be connected to the modem in order to access internet. I suggest you read up about Networking and EoP
pffffft can't get this… QLD
Don't know what you are talking about.
I rang up an 2 hours ago and they had 2 @Oxley, and at least 1 @Ipswich and Rockhampton.
Went to Oxley an hour later, and they found 2 at the back of the store unopened and still shrinkwrapped.
Just called OW not available VIC
SOLD OUT :(
Can't get it in WA … bugger … would have liked to give it a go at this price.
Has ANYONE managed to get one?
sounds like a typical officeworks bargain - total stock level: 1 (probably a display model somewhere)
Dude don't go knocking Officeworks bargains man I've gotten loads of clearance stock from them. Maybe most of ozbargain just doesn't live in the crappy enough suburbs (:
Ring the Office works customer service number and they will tell you which stores have stock, as I mentioned I saw it in the store and they had two units on the shelf, OW dont demo networking equipment so its not a demo clearance.
I agree with wang.
Also it's clearance stock, which means they are getting rid of whatever is left at a discounted price as incentive for consumer to purchase.
I managed to get 2 =)
Wonder if you would get much packet loss using these..
Seeing as it's made to transfer over this medium, I'm guessing they minimized this as much as they could. If they can get 10Gbps over copper with Ethernet then it probably isn't much of a stretch to get 200Mbps over other copper wires with a single constant sine wave of noise.
What's the difference between using this and a wireless modem? Is it faster?
I've got the Belkin "Gigabit Powerline HD" starter kit. And it is rubbish. I'm not sure if its this house, or becasue of the Logitech Security cameras (which are supposed to be interoperable), but I get a whopping 1MByte/s sustained transfer speed if I'm lucky. This is about 1/9th the speed of a 100MBit wired LAN connection, and 1/50th the speed of a wired gigbit LAN in the same circumstances.
I don't see what you wrote as justification for a negative vote. After all, you are talking about a different product that didn't work for you. I have setup these products before and they have worked very well. This price is most definitely a bargain.
It's not a product for everyone, but hardly worth a neg
These are all part of the "homeplug" standard, so they all work exactly the same, branding has nothing to do with it, they all use the same chipset. The HD 200MBit ones and the so called "Gigabit" ones are fully compatible with each other (probably both giving crap results).
I agree the price is good, but I negged to bring attention to the fact that these devices don't work at anywhere near their rated speeds. Especially since some people above are making some fairly uniformed outrageous claims. At least this way people will be alerted to reading an actual real world result, rather than the overly optimistic pure speculation above.
Not actually true. This product is not part of the HomePlug standard. D-link do make other versions that are, but this one uses an incompatible chipset with HomePlug devices.
@ukmark: I used to think that too, but to be called "Powerline HD" then these are actually part of the Homeplug HD standard (it will say that in the fine print on the box).
What it means is that the HD and AV powerline/homeplug devices can talk to each other, but they cannot talk to the earlier Homeplug devices. They can all still co-exist with teach other on the same power circuit.
The Logitech security cameras are the old Homeplug, and I have found that by disconnecting them, I can get a wee but more throughput on the Homeplug HD, but still no more than 1MByte/s total, a far cry from 200Mb/s, let alone "Gigabit". But this difference it telling, since these are supposed to be able to co-exist, I don't call that co-existing.
I really don't see what the fuss is about, I'm just trying to help out, next time I may not bother.
@stumo: You are saying these are rubbish because another brand you have does not work in your home, and that all the units are the same, what a load of rubbish! Did you pay $60 for a pair, do they use the same software, has your home wiring been checked by an electrician to ensure it meets the standards? A standard means they work a certain way, not that they will meet a guaranteed performance level in all circumstances.
The facts are that difference devices use different hardware and software and working on your home wiring will offer different performance, your lack of knowledge on the subject is not helpful, before you blame the technology check the environment its working in.
I am not a big fan of DLINK product, but you would be hard pressed to get connectivity from one room to another for $60 regardless of what technology you use!
@markis10: Please back up what you are saying with real world data and get back to us.
I agree there are many variables and normally I wouldn't mind, but these things are giving me 3 orders of magnitude lower performance than advertised. 1 Gigabit/s does not equal what I'm actually getting at 1 Megabit/s. That is one thousand times slower than advertised, I don't know about you, but I think that difference deserves highlighting. If it was 100 times slower I'd be quite happy, but no, it is basically unusable.
If you were getting anywhere near the advertised 200Mbit/s on these particular homeplugs, that should be a sustained file transfer in the region of 18MByte/s (using Gigabit LAN cards at each end), or around 9MB/s with 100Mbit cards.
Sorry to go on, but one major reason you would choose these is because you need speed but you aren't allowed to drill holes or change wiring in your premises as part of your lease. So there is no way I'm going to fork out for an electrician to check someone else's wiring on the off chance, only to have to do the same next time I move.
I'm just keeping mine in a box and hopefully I will get better than wireless performance at the next premesis. I paid $120 for a pair of "Gigabit" ones. Currently these are 1/3rd the speed of my wireless setup, so I'm just staying with that.
Talking about a totally different product to the above deal??
My Holden sucks so all Fords must also suck - same mentality!
No, Fords suck more than Holden. But seriously see my post above, these devices are all the same chipset, not sure what chipset your Holden has.
The devices are not made of the same chipset, there are a lot of different companies:
Intellon: http://www.homeplug.org/news/pr/view?item_key=7a93301ac162ee…
Coppergate: http://www.copper-gate.com/solutions/homeplug_av/
DS2 (which power the DLINK) http://www.ds2.es/
It might be of interest to you to read that Belkin use another chipset altogether, the Giggle, more info here: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-reviews/30888-a… .
You may not be sure what chipset the Holden has, but the chipset your Belkin has is not the same as the DLink!
"not sure what chipset your Holden has."
It would be a chinese one and fail regularly.
not sure it's "ideal for young houses (under 20 years)"
perhaps the wiring would be a little better, but the basic issue is whether you can make holes in your walls or not — even worst case, in an old house with lath&plaster walls, it would be well worth the effort to lay a little cat6 ethernet cable around, rather than make do with these devices, which are really only suited for people in rented premises.
do it support IPTV?