Internet power line adapters

[JPSmit]

anyone have any experience with these? brings the interweb using your electrical wires.

Trying to figure out if I can have one transmitter and 2 or three receivers.

thoughts?

 

[Deleted member 8987]

Unless you are looking at something else with the same descriptive name I am looking at.....it does not "brings the interweb using your electrical wires."
It is a network expanding device, without re-wiring the house.
Sometimes good, sometimes bad, and one of the issues is bad house wiring (oh, like some ancient house in Ontario with broken door hinges). And once the signal hits the powerline transformer on the pole outside your house, the signal dies....as it does often with a surge protector.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-things-powerline-adapters-need-know-first/

 

[catfood]

I've had no issues with them (in the UK). Its allowed me to extend my WiFi to the garage without laying cable (and the rest of the house where the WiFi is weak). You have one unit to connect into one of the ports in your router and as many slave units as you want spread around the house. The only (minor) issue I have had is when I wanted to extend the network and bought some new slave units I didn't get the same brand and they didn't work with my original set so stick to the same brand throughout.

 

[JPSmit]

Unless you are looking at something else with the same descriptive name I am looking at.....it does not "brings the interweb using your electrical wires."
It is a network expanding device, without re-wiring the house.
Sometimes good, sometimes bad, and one of the issues is bad house wiring (oh, like some ancient house in Ontario with broken door hinges). And once the signal hits the powerline transformer on the pole outside your house, the signal dies....as it does often with a surge protector.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-things-powerline-adapters-need-know-first/

That's the one - on the plus side the "ancient house in Ontario" ;p has very good wiring and plumbing and roof! :grin: (and new hinges!)

 

[DrEntropy]

They work okay but one has to be either physically connected to the broadband router or near it to pick up the router's WiFi signal. Had to troubleshoot this setup last week for a client, turned out he'd put the first one in the "chain" too far from the router. Easy fix.

 

[Deleted member 8987]

And.....if your power panel is 220, and split for each phase, I am not sure it will move from phase to phase as it goes up though the pole transformer.