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Great price if you are into that kind of thing. I've used these for a few years, work well.
TP-Link AV2000 2-Port Gigabit Passthrough Powerline $84.50 + Delivery ($0 with OnePass) @ Catch
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How do these work? So they connect to each other wirelessly or through power lines? Thanks.
Power lines. The sockets MUST be on the same circuit, otherwise the speed will be terrible if not working at all.
Exactly. Since my switchboard was updated - no connection between the circuits.
This is the next best thing to a network cable run, but by no means the only option. For example wifi or media bridges, but a little more complicated to set up
@Weshouldgetsushi: I can't because I'm not a licensed sparky or cabler. Insurance wouldn't like me doing that 🙁
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Power lines. The sockets MUST be on the same circuit,
This is not strictly true - it's more YMMV with how your house is set up. Speed is a function of cable distance between sockets. We have very long runs connecting sockets on two different circuits on the same phase (socket -> RCD -> RCD -> socket), and we are getting effective speeds between 40 Mbps and 200Mbps (which is fine for what we need).
I'm not sure if these units will cross phases in a 2 or 3 phase house (they might be able to do something clever with neutral - not my area of expertise?) - but will definitely take a speed hit because they will lose the active phases.
Unfortunately, the best way to get an idea of how powerline performs at your place is to plug a couple in.
Yeah, fair call, thanks for the further information
Replying to myself - if you do want to test, grab a pair of AV200 (not 2000) units from gumtree for $20-30 (or less - people often have difficulty setting them up and then dump them for cheap). Check out if they work - speed will be crap with the older units, but at least you'll know they connect. If you do get a good connection, you can then get maybe 5-10x faster by going to a AV2000. (and dump the tests again).
I'll also note that even an AV500 can go a long way if your bandwidth demands aren't high.
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$177 now unfortunately…
I bought the AV1300 model of this some time ago. All i can get through the old power lines is a max of 10MB/s because the power cables are so old and also i think it's going off another circuit. So if you have old power cables and also on another circuit these can be slow as you never get any where near the rated speed.
I think that is probably more to do with cables than the circuit. Mine are running between circuits and speed is fine. Main issue for me is it seems to go to sleep when there is no traffic for a while, if I ping a device running on the adapter every 10 mins it stays awake though.
Also i bet that they cancel these orders. It was obviously a pricing error.
I'd reckon that it was meant to be $184.50 and they missed the number 1.
Geez. Great deal. Bought one of these a few months ago. Big and Bulky. Runs fairly hot. Will render the 2nd plug point inaccessible. I used to run the TrendNet Nano v2. Superb. Tiny unit. Sadly not available in Aus.
I use a double adapter (https://www.bunnings.com.au/click-white-vertical-double-adap…) to shift the unit up and then you can use the 2nd plug point.
Thought of the same but the adapter is so darn large it looked unstable :D
Can vouch for these in a 70s wired house, fast and reliable. Cheapest I've seen it, when I got them a few years back via some pricematch deal at officeworks, they were in the low hundreds I think…