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[tunnie]

Any good?

http://www.ebuyer.com/620076-bt-triple-pack-200mbps-powerline-adaptor-3-x-075595

Thinking I may get these, when eventually my Home Hub is delivered 

[pscocoa]

if you want hd then they cannot be used with bt vision/youview - ok for sd but you will have to direct wire for hd and any special channels - discovery etc. you maybe with sky so maybe there is a variation but check it out

[Kevin Wood]

Get some Cat 5 instead.

[tunnie]

if you want hd then they cannot be used with bt vision/youview - ok for sd but you will have to direct wire for hd and any special channels - discovery etc. you maybe with sky so maybe there is a variation but check it out

Not interested in BT Vision/YouView, only getting BB 

Get some Cat 5 instead.

MrsT won't allow me to start making holes in our shinny new house 

Only looking for a better/stronger connection for my laptop on the 2nd floor, oh and my PC.

[pscocoa]

i have used powerline effectively - works best if you have separate socket for adaptor and not on extension lead

[aaronjb]

MrsT won't allow me to start making holes in our shinny new house 

 

[Stemo]

if you want hd then they cannot be used with bt vision/youview - ok for sd but you will have to direct wire for hd and any special channels - discovery etc. you maybe with sky so maybe there is a variation but check it out

Not interested in BT Vision/YouView, only getting BB 

Get some Cat 5 instead.

MrsT won't allow me to start making holes in our shinny new house 

Only looking for a better/stronger connection for my laptop on the 2nd floor, oh and my PC.

I use them, Tunnie, and they seem fine to me. But some folk don't like them for reasons unknown. They work for my skybox and my PC upstairs.

[Gaffers]

Get some Cat 5 instead.

Which reminds me, the missus is leaving for 2 weeks holibobs.  Time to wire the house!

MrsT won't allow me to start making holes in our shinny new house 

Neither will Mrs G, but I will use the TV ariel feed to reverse pull a line up to the loft from where I can pull down the CAT5 feeds I need for down stairs.  Cisco switch and patch panel in the airing cupboard (as we have a combi boiler there is no hot water storage in there) if it gets too hot in the summer I will make a thermo regulated vent with the air in the stairwell or loft

With that setup I can put the wireless router downstairs where I get better coverage across the property, have a hard line feed to the media setup downstairs and eventually fit out the house with remote touch-screen media clients, including one planned for the bathroom (but still no idea as to how I will do it yet)  Oh and dont forget the automated house I have planned.

It will probably all be finished by the time I am ready to move out

[AndyRoid]

MrsT won't allow me to start making holes in our shinny new house 

Can't say I blame her, you're not exactly the DIY type 

As Kevin says, hardwired is the way to go but if that is really not an option then I would personally suggest adaptors that can do 500mbps full duplex as opposed to the 200mbps variety (especially if you intend to stream HD).

[Marks DTM Calib]

Why not just get a bloody good wifi router?

[Kevin Wood]

Why not just get a bloody good wifi router?

Yep, despite the huge claimed data rates, a decent wi-fi network will work better in practice, IMHO, especially in a new house with paper walls.

[pscocoa]

yes - but some houses with thick Victorian walls just cannot allow a decent wifi signal to permeate.

Just re-engineered my daughters place to give better wifi signal at front of house - new latest Virgin wifi router installed - but to get signal to opposite end of house we previously had 25 metres of cable externally - now using powerline adaptors and stripped all cable out. Working fine. Wifi signal - no chance.

[I_want_an_Omega]

My place has some very thick old stone walls (over 2 feet thick) and more modern parts made of paper plasterboard/studwork. I'm using multiple Netgear PoE access points  - one of which covers the whole of the modern extension but needs individual units located throughout the thick-walled bit.

Key things like the TV & Youview box get cat 5 wired connections. 

[TheBoy]

Cable. Grow knackers

Failing that, a better router, the HH5 is better than a lot of ISP routers for wifi, but ultimately still poor.

If you have to go powerline adapters, not those old, obselete ones, go for a minimum of 500Mbps ones, and accept the throughput will be very poor. Very, very poor.

But fit some cable.

[pscocoa]

Cable. Grow knackers

Failing that, a better router, the HH5 is better than a lot of ISP routers for wifi, but ultimately still poor.

If you have to go powerline adapters, not those old, obselete ones, go for a minimum of 500Mbps ones, and accept the throughput will be very poor. Very, very poor.

But fit some cable.

Yes think about this very carefully, consider all options... and then fit cable. Unless you are not too bothered about speed in the remote location.