Home networking with wall-plugged ethernet devices

[bigmouk]

I have found 2 products that seem to be good. The Devolo kit seems to get better ratings. Has anyone purchased any of this type of kit and if so whats your recommendations ? These will be used for streaming content to a 360 as a primary use.

These are the 2 kits ...

Devolo MicroLink dLAN Highspeed Starter Kit
http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=0

And ...

NetGear Homeplug HD Ethernet Starter Kit
http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...=All&SearchMode=All&aQuicklinx=3RYL&InMerch=1

Ta!

 

[Daz]

http://solwise.co.uk/net-powerline-pl-85pe.htm

We used that stuff at work once, after Wireless was really unstable.

Worked really well (and is still working really well)

 

[bigmouk]

Cheers Daz. Same at the house, the wireless connection is going through 3 walls and is really poor, almost unusable.

My only concern is speed, because none of them seem to do what they say on the box. I guess my only option is to buy some kit and give it a go. The netgear HD kit is really tempting but it seems people struggle to get even 80 mbps never mind 200.

 

[sn00p]

http://solwise.co.uk/net-powerline-pl-85pe.htm

We used that stuff at work once, after Wireless was really unstable.

Worked really well (and is still working really well)

Crap encryption on it though.

This one by the same manufacturer has much better encryption.

http://solwise.co.uk/net-powerline-av-push.htm

 

[Daz]

80Mb is enough..

20Mb is HD TV. HD DVD content is around 36Mb, so even streaming that sort of content to your 360, the 80Mb will be enough!

You'd struggle with high def content over 54Mb wireless anyway.. which is why 802.11n is being used on a lot of HD streamers etc. (like the Apple TV)