Powerline Homeplug Network Kit 85Mbps (Twin Pack) £38.92 +£6 delivery

Voted hot BUT the stupid red Arrow I clicked on voted it as cold, been doing this a lot lately for some reason?..

i think this is more of a networking question really but i have my virgin wireless router in my living room. if i plugged one of these into it and then had the other one feeding another wireless router in the attic, would it work?

I thought this was going to be ideal for me, but read more details on another site, and something I then realised, the extension I have the main computer in, is on a separate fuse box to the rest of the house, so will not work

You'll probably find that it's just other people voting cold between you opening the deal & pressing the red button.

Delivery for this is £6.00, so the total price is £44.95 !

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.

ok, forgive me if this sounds dumb, but im not the most technical person around!

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

Maplin had 4port switch versions of these for £19.99 each, some stores still have them at that all, though no longer on line when I looked a few days a go.

Handy alternative if you want to connect more than one device wired at each end and don't have a hub/switch allready.

You would neet to get a cheap network switch, like this one http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?p...24&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

Yes.

these things are brilliant, much better than wifi!

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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Good if your wireless signal strength is pants...

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)...

Can you use more than one "pair" of these in one house?

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!