Troubled times for home networks

[mbriody]

What makes that article complete nonsense is that they are suggesting wireless as a simpler solution than setting up a wired LAN!

Wireless is a superset of wired and is far more complicated for the average Joe to set up (and far less reliable).

My house has a wireless LAN (mainly for the kids's MSN) but I use wired ethernet for media streaming and Powerline for ad hoc large file transfers. Wireless is generally a PITA.

[r1ch]

Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy

Im not sure about this but isnt a meter a bit like a transformer with the same input voltage as the output voltage? If that was the case it would provide isolation

Not really - a standard analog household meter has two coils, one in parallel and one in series with the house (to measure voltage and current respectively) but there is no primary and secondary coil like a transformer so there is no isolation from the power source.

[dragon]

Originally Posted by TheNorm

People who feel comfortable taking a computer apart sometimes forget how difficult "computer technology" is for the average person.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6949607.stm

I'm glad the Powerline option was discussed, as it is far easier to set up than a wireless network. More secure, too.

And it works... Very well infact

I get a nice stable 15ms to some of the UK gaming servers now.

Where as before when i was using wi-fi to connect I was getting a lot of jitter and packetloss despite my wlan card reporting an excellent signal.

Interestingly i always seem to get 5 -6 ms when i ping the router so it does add some latency.

[TheNorm]

Originally Posted by dragon

...I get a nice stable 15ms to some of the UK gaming servers now....Interestingly i always seem to get 5 -6 ms when i ping the router so it does add some latency.

That is interesting! So if I understand correctly, you used to have a 10ms but unstable signal, and now have a 15ms but stable signal. I wonder if the extra 5ms is a function of the distance between homeplug devices?

[dragon]

Originally Posted by TheNorm

That is interesting! So if I understand correctly, you used to have a 10ms but unstable signal, and now have a 15ms but stable signal. I wonder if the extra 5ms is a function of the distance between homeplug devices?

I used to get as low as 1 - 2 ms on the wireless when pinging the router but i used to get spikes of 2000ms or more or total packetloss very regularly

ive seen about 5ms to the router on the homeplugs and it sometimes goes up to about 8ms if the network is very busy but yet cs:source reports a 15ms ping to some of the UK servers, since i switched to using homeplugs i hardly ever get any Lag issues playing FPS games and when I do its usally becuase im playing on a US server.

Played the ETQW beta2 the other week for several hours with no problem what so ever


My connection goes though a wired switch then the homeplug to get to the router...

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 33, Received = 33, Lost = 0 (0% l
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 3ms, Maximum = 6ms, Average = 4ms
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