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<font face="Arial">I've heard that in some countries people have a 3rd
option for their broadband Internet connection. From their ELECTRIC
COMPANY! having 3 options in a marketplace is the key to delivering
great products and great prices to consumers. I only hope this catches
on in the US.<br>
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Also, you have to be careful with this kind of network because it can
be accessed by anyone on your side of the transformer. You have to
apply the same security concerns to this as you would a WiFi network.
You could get exploited if you treat it like a traditional wired
network thinking that someone can get on your network without getting
into your home.<br>
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I'm actually hoping to look into this solution to create a semi-WAN
between my home and my in-laws home across the cul de sac. If I can
get good enough speeds, I'm going to try to share my MythTV backend
with them.<br>
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Franco wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hello,
just wanted to tell everybody that now I have a working
network at home so I can start experimenting with
multiple frontend/backend configuration.
PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI.
Even though I had read a message of another user who was warning about
terrible and useless struggling with it - I had to try it the same
as I couldn't lay additional cables in my home.
I just have to confirm that I have uselessly spent lot of
time, money and blood and sleepless nights for more than one year
without getting an usable network.
At the end a friend suggested me the "devolo" adapter
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.devolo.com/co_EN/produkte/dlan/mldlanhsethernet.html">http://www.devolo.com/co_EN/produkte/dlan/mldlanhsethernet.html</a>
and it magically gave me a working WIRED network based on the existing
electricity cables.
Even though the claimed 85 Mbps are not met, I now have an honest
WIRED network with a reliable, constant, robust actual 10+ Mbps throughput
allowing me to to all I need.
The 811.g wi-fi claimed 54 Mbps but actually resulted
in less than 1 Mbps (in the best case) and was not reliable
at all... the link was up for 5 seconds and then down for 30 seconds,
when I was lucky!
Hope this will save some people from the terrible pain that me,
and others, have experimented.
Franco
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