My Son in law wants to use powerline alongside wifi. He has a split supply CU with separate upstairs and downstairs ring mains, will this cause connec tion problems? At the last house we used powerline and also had seperate up stairs and downstairs ring mains and found problems unless we had the power line adaptor son the same ring main.
Richard
I've got (TP-Link) powerline here, not just across rings, but with one end on a separate consumer unit daisychained off the main one. Works just fine.
# My Devolo works on different rings, but there is only a single RCD guarding all circuits. I believe that the singals don't like passing through RCDs.
are you trying to get into deep dodos or what? These devices are rubbish. They create radio frequency interference. The last one too close to here was shut down by ofcom via the local hams and short wave listeners. Brian
Blimey, and I wonder if anyone in the area can get any stations on their radios outside local fm and dab? Brian
This corner of the Welsh borders is not exactly an area of high population density... Unless, of course, you include sheep.
(DAB? I don't think that's reached here yet. Mobile phone signals barely have.)
No difference really.
Define.
Is that browse the web over a 3 Mbps internet connection with no noticable difference with or without the powerline segment in use. Provided the powerline segment is faster than the internet connection things will appear "just fine".
Or transfer a 1GB file locally with no noticable difference in time taken if the powerline segment in used or not.
Aside from the RF interference aspect, it's more things to go wrong, get zapped by lighting or mains glitch, lower speed, doesn't work without power, than a nice bit of pretty much fit and forget Cat 5e cable that'll be good for 1 Gbps, full duplex. Cables drawback is speed of installtion and the requirement to know how to use a hammer.
In message , Tricky Dicky writes
I have used Solwise units, and they are fine. Our mains cabling is a nightmare, with one main on/off box supplying four fuse boxes, and cables all over the place. Large Victorian house with cabling added and replaced over the years. The units just work. We also have a shop attached to the house, with separate mains supply. The Solwise units do not bridge the gap between the two, as expected.
I realise we may be causing interference elsewhere, but the possibility is fairly remote. Thick, solid granite walls kill wifi, which is why we use powerline units. The chances of signals escaping and causing havoc elsewhere are fairly remote.
But they are legal to buy and the OP, and others, can use them if they want. Instances of Ofcom stopping them being used because of radio interference must be very few.
In message , at 07:03:50 on Mon, 6 Jul 2015, News remarked:
I have three: two ethernet-only and one with a wifi point in it.
The latter gets alarmingly hot.
Of the former, one recently failed completely; not sure if it's going to repairable or not.
No problems here with 2 consumer units and rcds. Even works next door which happens to be on the same phase so no issues going through 2 meters.
I found that my Powerline units were foxed by power strips, as warned by the blurb. Something to do with the surge-absorbing components. But I gave up Powerline and went with a boosted WiFi system instead, to be kinder to any hams locally.
I think it is worth looking at the site
"suffering deliberate interference (spectrum abuse)"...? "such immense interference that it could be impossible to enjoy any form of radio"...? "the deliberate and illegal interference"...?
They really don't help their case - which may or may not be valid, I don't know - with some emotive over-exaggerated bollocks as that. If the interference is "illegal", why are they having to try to ban it?
Right now, I'm listening to FM radio 4, from a mains radio sat almost directly underneath one of the powerline networking units. The signal is clear as anything.
There's a battery radio in the bathroom, almost directly above the other powerline networking unit. The signal from that is as clear as anything, too.
We don't have a DAB radio, but we've borrowed one to see if we get a signal - we do, quite a good one.
Since there's two bloody great big 15" thick stone walls right across the middle of the house (with the exception of one doorway), I'm open to suggestions of other ways to get internet in the whole property.
That should, obviously, be one doorway in each wall.
I think the stable door is well and truly swinging in the breeze.
ITU G.hn is touted as being better regarding interference than IEEE 1901 (aka HomePlug) because it can have notches at specific frequencies, perhaps radio hams should "get behind" the G.hn standard (if it is indeed better for them) but smartgrid and electric car chargers seem to be on the side of HomePlug ...
This was discussed some many months ago, in a different newsgroup, and they still use the same cringe-making language. They need to get somebody with real PR experience to go over their website. The fact that it has stayed so bad for so long is not to their advantage.
As I said, read it and make up your own mind.
Oh, absolutely.
Anybody neutral will read it and make their mind up that they're a bunch of hysterical cranks.
"You may think that, I couldn't possibly comment". (!)
The problem is today that such enormous Big Lies are bounding around the place that unless you actually do a bit of detailed research the truth itself often looks exactly like something made up by a bunch of hysterical cranks.
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