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This may be slightly off topic however thought I'd add my 2 cents
regarding my sucess with Powerline Adapters. <br>
<br>
My cable modem / router is in our basement and the bedroom upstairs
gets no / a very weak wifi signal. As a result I opted for
powerline adapters. Initially the broadband speed I'd get was
1/10th of the speed that I'd get on pc's connected directly to the
cable modem. However the following tweaks have helped improve that
to 1/3rd of that speed:<br>
<br>
1) Using a wall socket and not attaching the adpaters to a power
bar.<br>
<br>
2) Using that wall socket for the adapter only and not attaching any
other gadget to the spare outlet.<br>
<br>
3) Using the wall socket that is closest to the breaker
switchboard. My bedroom and the basement are on different circuits
as a result being close to the switchboard helps ensure the signals
travel the shortest distance.<br>
<br>
The above has resulted in my needing to run a 20' to 30' ethernet
cable from my pc to the powerline adapter however the improvement in
signal strength as been worth it. There are several articles like <a
href="http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=2814&CURRENT_CMD=SEARCH&CONFIGURATION=1001&PARTITION_ID=1&USERTYPE=1&LANGUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=Cable">this
one</a> that suggest ways to improve powerline adapter
performance. Additionally for the things I do at home (e.g.
streaming movies / songs from my 'basement' pc, sharing files), I
find them to be reliable.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
Sandeep<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">From:
Sandeep Johri</pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/07/15 09:35 AM, CrankyOldBugger
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I can confirm that power line ethernet is still a
long ways from reliable. I had some d-link adapters a few years
ago and couldn't even get them to talk to each other.
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<div>PoE, on the other hand, is something else altogether. The
VoIP system we use at work depends on PoE switches to light up
the phones. Every time we install the VoIP in a remote office
we need to replace the existing switches with PoE equipment.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 at 09:25 Raymond Chen <<a
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<div dir="ltr">At first I thought Joe was talking about power
line ethernet. After some study it turned out to be another
thing. I guess Power over Ethernet is cool, if we are
planning the wiring from scratch. BTW, the 'power line
ethernet' is not very reliable. I have two adapters which
work poorly, with a lot of packet loss, if I plug any of
them in a power strip. If both of them are on wall outlet,
they work well. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Joe
Wennechuk <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:youcanreachmehere@hotmail.com"
target="_blank">youcanreachmehere@hotmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">IMHO..... Being that you're at the
planning phase I would suggest the extra money on
Power over Ethernet gear. It works very well, and
provides much more flexibility of usage. It will
save many headaches in the future and will allow you
to position the wireless equipment it the optimum
position.<br>
I have found Mikrotik gear to be extremely well
made, reliable, and mostly for me cheap! And just
using an rj-45 with out a power brick, module, and
outlet necessity very nice indeed.
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:PoE-Out"
target="_blank">http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:PoE-Out</a></div>
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<div>I LOVE of the mikrotik monitoring and
discovery tools, especially the "Dude"</div>
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<div>> From: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:aklists@mixdown.ca"
target="_blank">aklists@mixdown.ca</a><br>
> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:31:39 -0400<br>
> To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org"
target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Best place to
purchase Cat6 in K/W<br>
> <br>
> > On Jun 10, 2015, at 5:59 PM, B. S.
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:bs27975@yahoo.ca"
target="_blank">bs27975@yahoo.ca</a>>
wrote:<br>
> > And ... just in case ... don't
forget, you'll want plenum rated cable,
regardless of what you go with. (Heat/fire
resistance.)<br>
> > (Dig into the kwlug archives within
the last year or two, search cat6, there will
be a group of messages from Cedric within that
thread. It was good reading. <br>
> > <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/"
target="_blank">http://kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/</a>
)<br>
> <br>
> It was actually a kwartzlab post. I dug
through and found it: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://kwartzlab.ca/pipermail/discuss_kwartzlab.ca/2012-September/001193.html"
target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://kwartzlab.ca/pipermail/discuss_kwartzlab.ca/2012-September/001193.html">http://kwartzlab.ca/pipermail/discuss_kwartzlab.ca/2012-September/001193.html</a></a><br>
> <br>
> I’m looking at building a house and to be
honest, I’m far more inclined to put cat5e
throughout. Any truly long runs (say over 50m)
would be cat6, but my intention would be to
install a 3” metal conduit going from the
basement electrical room to the attic (and
another from the basement to some central
location on the main floor), and then
requiring ANY non-power cabling to be run
through them. I am not sure if I’d buy some
1/2” plastic conduit to run inside the walls
of a given level or not (i.e. from the central
conduit to a specific outlet) but I would ask
that all non-power wires be left loose in the
walls so I could more easily pull new cabling
if the need arose.<br>
> <br>
> Using a metal conduit between floors
might even alleviate the need for plenum-rated
cable, although to be honest most solid core
cable is plenum-rated anyway. You can find
1000 foot boxes of plenum rated, solid core
cat5e for about $45 on amazon, and I’d also
check with local contractor outlets like
Graybar to see what they can do (since you
wouldn’t have to pay for shipping).<br>
> <br>
> -A.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
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