[Chester LUG] Ethernet over power

[Les Pritchard]

Hi Roger,

Thanks for that, I'll let you know if I'm in a position to test them over
the New Year.

Interesting story about Microsoft, I think they're really having to push the
customer service with Windows 7. Them having a more positive helpful
attitude can only help the industry as a whole. I like his comments about
Vista, I'm waiting for them to say "Ok, like Highlander 2 - let's pretend
Vista never happened".

2009/11/29 Roger Gibson <rcgibson at talktalk.net>

> Hi Les, Glad you are improving.
>
> Re signalling over the mains, I do it.  Bear in mind my internet at the
> end of a few miles of damp string telephone line rarely gets up to
> 1Mbps, so I don't ask a lot.  However, with a long straggly house with
> thick stone walls, a wireless router was not really man enough for the
> job, so to connect Maire's office to mine at opposite ends of the house
> I bought a
>
> Belkin Powerline AV Networking Adapter (200 Mbps)
>
> for about £55 a year ago.  It has two 13A plug units which I plugged in
> and it worked without any setting up.  I have a wireless router at each
> end which each looks after things locally, wireless to laptops, hard
> wired to PC and printserver etc.  Electrically, the rooms are on very
> different circuits.  It advised not connecting through my Belkin
> Surgemaster, but I forget now whether I tried this or not.  We get
> fairly frequent power cuts, but it seems to cope.
>
> I shall be away for a week over the New Year if you want to borrow it to
> try.
>
> On a different tack, I had problems recently with a dual boot laptop
> having it's Windows 7 system, which had been given to a charity I work
> with for nothing by MS, and I had been running successfully and legally
> for a couple of months or more, which suddenly started saying the system
> was invalid, possibly pirated, and that I should reactivate it.  I
> followed the instructions to do this, but it would not reactivate, and
> told me to ring someone at MS on a UK 0800 number.  This I did, and the
> person who answered quickly said it was too technical for him, and when
> could he get a colleague to call.  I stated a time, and on the dot a
> very helpful chappie from MS in New Delhi rang, understood the problem
> straight away, and asked me to try a few things.  He was not fazed by my
> using Firefox, 'it has a lot of good features we must try to copy' , but
> confessed himself puzzled by the error message.  He asked to take over
> my system, and I watched him looking at a host of registries without
> changing anything, all the time telling me clearly what he was doing and
> why.  He then said, this is very puzzling, he would have to think about
> it and consult his colleagues.  Then he said, 'it has fixed itself', and
> sure enough the error message had gone.  He did a few more tests,
> confessed to still being very puzzled, 'but then funny things do happen,
> but not so often as with Vista.  That was a terrible system'.  He then
> promised to ring me in a week, at a time of my choosing, to check it was
> still OK.  He was so informative and polite.  Never once was it
> suggested I had done anything wrong.  Dual booting was a perfectly
> reasonable thing to do.  I've got his personal email address, so if ever
> I want help again, I'll try him.  I was so surprised to get polite
> helpful common sense from MS, I thought I would share this.
>
> Last Thursday in December is New Year's Eve, second last is Christmas
> Eve, any plans for a December meeting!
>                     Roger.
>
> Les Pritchard wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I hope you had a good time at the social. I'm now slowy on the mend so
> will
> > see you all soon.
> >
> > I have a question about these ethernet over power systems that are
> around. I
> > know they've been mentioned before at the LUG, has anyone got any
> experience
> > of using them?  I'm hopefully moving house in the near future and really
> > can't face cabling CAT5 to all the rooms again. I know that's not the
> techie
> > way, but for now I don't want to go round chipping out perfectly good
> walls
> > as I spent enough time doing that in the current house!  So I figured
> that
> > these solutions could be a way of getting net access / video streaming to
> > the rooms. I could go with a wireless bridge, but I'm assuming that the
> > 200meg powerline systems should give me a better throughput, even if it
> > isn't really 200meg.
> >
> > Am I right in thinking they work across the house's phase and not just a
> > circuit within it?
> >
> > Your experiences good or bad will be appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Les
> >
> >
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