[HECnet] Multi-floor household (DECnet) routing help needed

[Clem Cole]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net> wrote:
I looked around locally for a powerline ethernet device today.

Again sorry for the late reply.

I too experimented with the powerline gear and have been favorably impressed.   I wonder how well is will work when more and more people have them, but I suppose with good low-pass filtering at the point of presence to the house it might not be too bad.

As others have spoken about using CAT5e/CAT6, nothing beats a direct wire (as Metcalfe put it - there is never enough ether).    But I too had a situation at my son's boarding school in remote New Hampshire where the WiFi was in the common room and in his actual dorm room the signal/noise ratio pretty much went away. Since he had an ethernet port on his MBP,   on a lark, I got a set of these and sent them too him.

As per my instrux, he put the one with the switch in the common room and single one in his room.    It was so successful I had to add   switch in his room for roommate.   Success love company, and a number of the other students have asked how they did it and we ordered units for their rooms.  

A cool part is that the school's IT folks called me and now talking about put a master unit in all the common rooms in their dorms and then tell the kids if they want a hardwired connection in their room - here is how.

Not bad for $39 for the single side, and $59 for the one with the built in 5 port switch and sure beats the wireless issues.

Clem