Homeplugs up the submain

It's me again. :-)

I'm not sure what a Henley block is but I can tell you what I have here, which I regard as a pretty difficult environment. One Homeplug goes into a 13A wall socket near the router, via one of those cube-shaped three- way adapters. From there the signal goes along about 8 metres of ring main to the CU, which is fitted with MCBs. From there (via a different MCB as you'd expect) it's about another 7 metres of T+E to the back of the house. Then it's SWA for about 15 metres underground to the garage door, then about 5 metres more T+E within the garage to another CU, with RCD this time. From there 5 metres more T+E to a 13A socket into which is plugged a 2-metre four-way extension lead, into which is plugged the disk drive and the other Homeplug (phew!).

The Homeplugs are "dLan 200"s, and they give an apparently reliable connection, with a reported transfer rate of 58 Mbps, though I suspect that actual throughput is rather less than that. Still, not bad. Nicely secure and a doddle to set up.

How far is the shed from your wireless router? Suppose you put an aerial (perhaps a little Yagi array) on the outside connected directly to a little stub aerial inside? Would that be expected to work? Robert

Dunno - but I've ordered the plugs now, so a moot point :-)

Pete