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

[Cory Smelosky]

On 18 Jan 2013, at 00:11, Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net> wrote:

All this discussion got me off my a$$, and I looked around locally for a powerline ethernet device today.   I found a D-Link DHP-309AV "PowerLine AV+ Mini Adapter Starter Kit" for $59 CDN.

The specifications say "up to 200Mbps speed", however plugging into a gigabit switch it only negotiates 100Mbps, so I suspect "200Mbps" is marketing-speak for 100Mbps full duplex.

More than likely. Could also be future-proofing or saying you could have 2 saturated 100mbit connections at the same time.


Never mind, because the garage-end of my network is only 10Mbps (most of it is 10Base2 coax).

What's the latency like?


At first, I plugged them in to available power bars, but I was getting a red light on the device indicating a low signal level.   I unplugged from the power bars and plugged directly into an outlet, and it works perfectly.   I suspect the surge suppression features of the power bars was interfering. I'm saturating my 10Mbps circuit and I'm not getting any of the strange dropout errors I was getting with the wireless link.

Seems the tech has improved since I last used it something like 7 years ago. ;)


$59 is a small price to pay compared to drilling holes through exterior house walls and crimping RJ45 connectors.

Unless you happen to be a contractor who doubles as a network engineer. ;)


Ian

On 2013-01-17, at 1:14 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:


On 17 Jan 2013, at 15:45, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:

On 1/17/2013 3:24 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On 17 Jan 2013, at 15:05,hvlems at zonnet.nl   wrote:

Two Linksys WAP54G units, that's what I'd do. The WAP54G is fairly old so may be cheap on EBay.
But you're not a Linksys fan, are you?
No, but from what I've recently learned, MoCa is going to be a great solution and I think it's what i'm going to go with.

I ran a wifi bridge many years ago when I lived in Philly. Never worked well and then the school across the street put in a bajillion million watt APs that used EVERY FUCKING AVAILABLE CHANNEL and my bridge just stopped working completely at that point.

That's when I was introduced to MoCA. 100mbit and solid. Also, latency is much lower than wireless.

Also, very cheap (looking now, NIM100s are $15/each on ebay but I paid $5/each for mine) and at least here in the US coax is almost guaranteed to be in place in pretty much every house so you rarely even have to do any major wire pulls.

I should probably have asked my friend who works for a local cableco instead   as I lost the bid on the one. ;)

At least I got a lot of 2   I'm not patient when it comes to networking.


-brian



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