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Been keeping an eye on powerline wifi, found this pretty good deal via Pricehipster.
D-Link PowerLine AV500 Wireless AC600 Starter Kit (DHP-W313AV) $50 + Delivery @ Kogan
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What a load of crap.
Pseudoscience… no evidence to support those claims. I don't like Powerline tech either, but for different reasons:
- If the signal is weak, then if there is high traffic on the network, you may notice a massive spike in ping latency.
- Homeplug2 tech can interfere with audio gear, we had this problem in my church, so had to resort to wifi mesh instead.
- Homeplug2 chipsets seem to be unreliable, and may disconnect randomly from time to time - TP-Link seems to be worst for these issues, but I have had the same problems on occasion with my D-link units.
All in all, I think mesh wifi is a better option than EoP, which is a bit of a shame to be honest!
wow, I hope your foil hat is organic
Anyone thinking they'll actually get 500Mbps throughput is out of luck. These bullshit pieces of crap were created with only a 10/100 Ethernet port and not a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port. Best throughput you'll ever get on these is less than 100Mbps split between both lanes (taking overhead into account).
Agree - the throughput speeds are exaggerated on all of these Homeplug units, and I don't understand how they can make these claims without being dinged for false advertising! However, if you buy an AV2 standard unit, they do come with gigabit ports. This unit here is only AV1, so definitely only suitable for low-bandwidth applications.
The speed advertised is theoretical, just like Wifi speed.
a modern home with decent electrical cabling and not routing between circuits via the fusebox, you'll get a pretty decent quality connection.
My house is not an ideal setup - older house, different circuits (so routed through the fusebox) and it was still enough to play a 4K HEVC stream from my NAS - took a few extra seconds to buffer, thats all.
I have Netcomm units and they were rock solid. never required a reboot and didnt consume a power point (pass-through with line filtering)
Netgear are also OK. I think the other ones I had were edimax, and they were rubbish.
They wont work anywhere you have filtered power.
I have also set these up to work in a few older suburbs between houses. Inadvertently, but between houses nonetheless.
theoretical, just like Wifi speed.
It's only theoretical if in theory it can reach those speeds. If you put in a device that is physically incapable of hitting those speeds due to a bullshit design then it's not a theoretical speed, it's a blatant lie.
@Tacooo: I agree doe that Gig-E is basically mandatory in any network device in this day and age. I'm Looking at you Apple TV.
I think that the bandwidth rating is communication between the endpoints, not specifically referring to bandwidth achievable through the port by a connected device. Remember you can connect more than 2 of these devices to one LAN too, so the maximum available bandwidth 'in the walls' so to speak is determined by the endpoint with the worst connection.
so 2 endpoints can't hit 500mbps but by the time you have 3 or 4 EPs rated at AV500 you might be saturating the powerline network. the higher rated systems simply increase that ceiling.
I could be wrong though.
@PainToad: the previous model did not, and its not a big deal but my OCD is telling me the orange LED on my switch should be green like the other LEDs.
This is only AC600… Add on $9.95 you can get AC1000 on ebay
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Tenda-PH3-AV1000-1-Port-Gigabit-…
Don't forget to use couple PLACE to get further discount :-)
AC600 refers to WiFi, AV1000 is EoP… different use cases for these items
That Tenda unit does not have Wifi, just an FYI. There are two kinds of homeplugs, one that just has wired ethernet connections while the D-Link unit here has a built in Wifi access point.
10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet LAN port to connect a wired device
Definitely a big nono for me. Sticking with my TL-PA9020P
SourceAlso wouldn't go for this since it's HomePlug AV1 and not HomePlug AV2.
Stinge Master on 10/05/2019 - 14:48 Comment score below threshold.
