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Powerline Homeplug Network Kit 85Mbps (Twin Pack) £38.92 +£6 delivery
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Use your house/apartment electrics to share your internet connection around your home.
These are the cheapest I have seen and pefect for my xbox in the attic!
dont forget quidco at 3%
Delivery is £6 making it £44.95
- go4go13
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All Comments (49)
You'll probably find that it's just other people voting cold between you opening the deal & pressing the red button.
I've just put one of these setups in to connect router to 360 and it works very well from the limited testing I've been able to do. I belive that the two plugs I've got are on seperate circuits but the same fuse board and no problems at all with finding each other. However my understanding is that they must be connected to the same fuse board otherwise there's no direct link between them. Which is a really bad explanation, sorry.
i have a virgin media webstar modem.
how would i use this to hook up my xbox downstairs and still have internet upstairs on the pc?
seems a good deal if i can get it to work right
Handy alternative if you want to connect more than one device wired at each end and don't have a hub/switch allready.
i have a virgin media webstar modem.
how would i use this to hook up my xbox downstairs and still have internet upstairs on the pc?
seems a good deal if i can get it to work right
You would neet to get a cheap network switch, like this one http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=2639&ref=froogle&ci_src=18615224&ci_sku=4788 plus one extra ethernet cable.
You would plug the network cable from your modem into one of the switch ethernet ports. You'd then run a network cable from another switch port to your PC. You would then run a network cable from a switch port to the homeplug, plugged into the mains.
On the Xbox you would run a network cable from the xbox ethernet port to another homeplug, plugged into the mains. Job done :thumbsup:
Yes.
You would plug the network cable from your modem into one of the switch ethernet ports. You'd then run a network cable from another switch port to your PC. You would then run a network cable from a switch port to the homeplug, plugged into the mains.
On the Xbox you would run a network cable from the xbox ethernet port to another homeplug, plugged into the mains. Job done :thumbsup:
This review from dabs might help explain a little clearer...
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Rarely have expectations been exceeded by so much.
I live in an apartment and wanted to share my broadband connection in one room with a PC in the spare room. Our wireless router works well, but I wanted the increased speed + reliability of a wired network. Read about the concept of “Powerline” devices in PCW, but wasn't sure.
However, given the (very) low price of this device I thought it was worth a try. Boy was I right.
The box contains two Ethernet cables; two power cords; two very small black boxes (c. 10cm x 10cm); a CD.
My experience:
Plug power and Ethernet cable into one of the black boxes; plug power cable into wall; plug Ethernet cable into spare slot on broadband router.
Repeat procedure with other black box, plugging Ethernet cable into PC.
Stick CD in PC, install software. No config necessary.
In 5 minutes, a high speed wired network in my apartment. For less than £40.
Phenomenal.
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But bear in mind it's a 1 to 1 connection. It becomes uneconomical to connect multiple devices in this manner (unless of course if you have lead walls)...
You get these things free with BT Vision, and i'm currently using it to go from my phone point / BT Home Hub to my room. In my room, i've got a 4 port switch on the end of the powerline adapter, and this works great - all my devices in my room have a good solid internet access.
But I wonder... what if I wanted to also share the internet to my living room? Can this be done? How?
Would I need a new PAIR of adapters - a second adapter at the Home Hub and another adapter in my living room?
Would I just need a third powerline adapter in my living room?
Or can you only do one "connection" in a household?
A note to anyone buying these - MAKE SURE YOU PLUG THEM DIRECTLY INTO THE WALL - using an extension cable took my downloads from 650kbps to 50kbps!
But bear in mind it's a 1 to 1 connection. It becomes uneconomical to connect multiple devices in this manner (unless of course if you have lead walls)...
True, however, I have extened my network to the other side of the house these...the cable comes out of the extender plug and into a 'media centre' style hub. From there I have cables coming out into my Xbox360, PS3 & Wii...I only ever need one of them on at a time ('cos I only have 1 'stevie' :-) so this suits my needs perfectly.
Bosh, job done.
Yes. I've got 5 of them.
i have a virgin media webstar modem.
how would i use this to hook up my xbox downstairs and still have internet upstairs on the pc?
seems a good deal if i can get it to work right
You would plug the network cable from your modem into one of the switch ethernet ports. You'd then run a network cable from another switch port to your PC. You would then run a network cable from a switch port to the homeplug, plugged into the mains.
On the Xbox you would run a network cable from the xbox ethernet port to another homeplug, plugged into the mains. Job done :thumbsup:
Theres a simpler way to acheive this.
You would either use the USB connection of the VM modem to PC then share the connection via ICS, or install another ethernet card and share that via ICS: ethernet to PC NIC1 then PC NIC2 to homeplug upstairs to homeplug downstairs to xbox, so as you have two IP addresses and this will also allow the xbox internet access when the PC is switched on, for streaming to xbox from PC the first is the cheapest as you should have all the bits already but some folk dont recommend using the USB connection.
I use the 200Mbps version and stream 12Gb 1080p WMV VC1 movie length files fine.