http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/netgear-intros-2-in-1-powerline-network-extender/ Engadget Comments for Netgear intros 2-in-1 Powerline Network Extender http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/netgear-intros-2-in-1-powerline-network-extender/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/netgear-intros-2-in-1-powerline-network-extender/Jun 11th 2007 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/netgear-intros-2-in-1-powerline-network-extender/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/netgear-intros-2-in-1-powerline-network-extender/Jun 11th 2007 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/netgear-intros-2-in-1-powerline-network-extender/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/netgear-intros-2-in-1-powerline-network-extender/ "While it won't give you a 200Mbps transfer rate, you'll still get a decent 85Mbps..."

No...I don't think you will. You'll get maybe 20 - 25 mbps tops at any kind of distance that makes it worthwhile.
In my house I tried for a brief time to use the old 14mbps gear, it averaged about 6mbps...decent enough to share broadband in 2002 - 2005, but the bridges didn't like being plugged into switches (so you needed one per machine), and the whole thing was pretty succeptable to noise (you couldn't plug the bridges into the same outlet group that your PC was plugged into, unless you were using a UPS...the DC conversion blocked all the noise from the PSU, otherwise it would obliterate your signal).

I tried upgrading a few months ago to the backward compatible 85mbps stuff. Accross the same segment it averaged 900kbps, and it was highly unstable (cutting out all the time).

Admittedly, we have poor wiring and a lot of electronics on the line at my place, but when you consider how much noise your house wiring picks up and the fact that the very nature of this tech is basicaly a hub architechture it's not really reasonable to expect to get the theoretical limits of devices like these...

Still, it was and is better than wifi in my house. I've got so much stuff running in my room alone, I'm barely able to get a connection accross the room.

HPNA was better in my opinion, I sure hope version 3.0/3.1 makes a comeback after the sad demise of version 2.0...]]>Jun 11th 2007 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/netgear-intros-2-in-1-powerline-network-extender/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/netgear-intros-2-in-1-powerline-network-extender/
Anyone with a screwdriver to take the faceplate off can do this, and you only need 2 pairs for 100mbps so if you are in an older building that doesn't have 4 pairs, or you need one pair for a phone line, you can still get 100mbps ethernet out of the existing copper infrastructure]]>Jun 11th 2007 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/netgear-intros-2-in-1-powerline-network-extender/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/netgear-intros-2-in-1-powerline-network-extender/Jun 11th 2007 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/netgear-intros-2-in-1-powerline-network-extender/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/netgear-intros-2-in-1-powerline-network-extender/Jun 12th 2007 6:20PM