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Re: Don't do it! by Lizard_King 11/10/2010, 3:11am PST
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:


I ended up purchasing the router that Ray suggested as soon as I saw it. I'm going to ask a very stupid question, LK. The link you provided ... it looks like it offers ethernet as something you plug into your wall. That can't be it, though. I can buy cat5 cable going from a PC to this thing and into the wall... but how does any of it get to a router or cable modem? That seems pretty science-fictiony. I want to believe, of course.

But I probably misunderstand it.

It is pretty magical, I'll admit, and definitely something you want to try with a store that has a decent return policy (eg amazon, monoprice if possible). You literally plug one end into an outlet where your router is, and then plug the other adapter into another outlet where the computer/xbox/whatever is. To expand the network, you just...add another adapter where it is needed. In every case, you simply plug it in and a light either comes on or it does not, and your cat 5 commitment is simply from the computer/router to the powerline ac adapter (which shouldn't be run through a surge protector or UPS). It piggybacks on your existing electrical wiring, and that's pretty much all there is to it.

The qt3 thread on it can give you some information on the other allegedly faster but less versatile option, which is using your cable wiring the same way and is now standard fare in some cable company installations apparently (you won't have to mess with any of the tweaking in the more recent posts unless you notice a catastrophic drop in performance as you add pieces to the network). I should be in the worst case scenario for performance given my setup: I mixed both the linksys cisco 200mbps pair and the generic monoprice 200mbps pair and I'm in an apartment where there's always a chance of something shady when it comes to wiring (the cable wiring is an abomination). However, I still get really great transfer rates (at wireless g: 250k/s;at wireless n 1-2MB/s; with powerline 4-5mbps) for large files to and from my NAS, and the streaming from my media computer to my ps3 is now working just as lag free as it does off of a flash drive, which means I can fast forward and rewind through 4 gb xvids without skipping.

I still can't believe it works, but I've put some time into it and between that and my ddwrt router the only downtime in my system is from resetting my shitty cable modem every month or so when comcast is being comcastic. They can't go full retard since U-verse is in my area, and they have to pretend to compete with one another. Recommended, and fuck wireless. My apartment is a black hole of wireless signals (a casual scan can pick up as many networks as your utility is willing to list), and I give up on the technology altogether.
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Routers by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/16/2008, 5:23pm PDT NEW
    I have a much cheaper D-Link wireless router that fucking blows. by Jerry Whorebach 09/16/2008, 9:15pm PDT NEW
        I have a Cheap D-Link that is good. NT by Quétinbec 09/17/2008, 5:46am PDT NEW
            Yeah, cheap and okay is all I am looking for. Thanks guys. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/17/2008, 11:01am PDT NEW
                I recommend getting a wireless one. You might want it in the future. NT by Fussbett 09/17/2008, 1:00pm PDT NEW
                    yeah! (I have, like the primo D-Link wireless model) by Ray of Light 09/17/2008, 2:07pm PDT NEW
                        I've got a cheap D-Link that has worked well for two years. NT by I need clarification 09/22/2008, 4:22am PDT NEW
                            Consensus!: Cheap wireless D-Link. Now ICJ will buy the one without the HD :( NT by Fussbett 09/22/2008, 10:12am PDT NEW
                                Hahah NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/22/2008, 10:29am PDT NEW
                    You were right, Fussbett. I should have listened. by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/08/2010, 6:56am PST NEW
                        They still sell the model I have: D-Link DIR-655 by Ray of Light 11/08/2010, 8:16am PST NEW
                            I have the DIR-655 too by jeep 11/09/2010, 11:14pm PST NEW
                        Re: You were right, Fussbett. I should have listened. by motherfuckerfoodeater 11/08/2010, 9:01am PST NEW
                            Wow, you managed to find a useful Atwood post! NT by Entropy Stew 11/09/2010, 8:19am PST NEW
                                HEY ACHEWOOD IS GOOD WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT NT by fast reader 11/09/2010, 1:02pm PST NEW
                        Don't do it! by Lizard_King 11/08/2010, 11:08am PST NEW
                            Re: Don't do it! by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/09/2010, 8:30pm PST NEW
                                Re: Don't do it! by laudablepuss 11/09/2010, 10:25pm PST NEW
                                Re: Don't do it! by Lizard_King 11/10/2010, 3:11am PST NEW
                                Re: Don't do it! by Kenji Carter 11/13/2010, 9:08pm PST NEW
                                    Re: Don't do it! by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/14/2010, 2:26am PST NEW
                                        Fuck it, posting questions (for hot chicks) by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/14/2010, 9:07am PST NEW
                                            USB 2.0 throughput is like, over a hundred MB per second by Fullofkittens 11/14/2010, 9:43am PST NEW
                                                Thanks, man. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/14/2010, 9:46am PST NEW
 
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