[Sussex] New kit i am now playing with.

[Jon Fautley]

Nicholas Butler wrote:
> So on recommendation of Mr Harrision [1]  I invested in a pair of Devolo 
> High Speed Network kits for moving ethernet over power ( 
> http://www.devolo.com/co_EN/produkte/dlan/mldlanhsstarterkit.html ) . 
> For an answer to moving data between the house and the office these are 
> spot on. I just plugged them in , the first besides the DSL router power 
> socket and the other in the office ,and connected the kit up and it all 
> worked just like it said on the tin. So from Mr Butler this product gets 
> two thumbs up !

Cool - I've also been looking for something similar to these to cable my 
new place. What's the security like on them, though? It all seems to be 
'configuration free', which is kinda worrying when you're broadcasting 
your entire ethernet traffic to your entire street...

Also, what sort of transfer speeds/latency do you get on them? Anything 
radically different from 100Mbit ethernet? I'm thinking of sticking my 
Myth box on the end of one of them, streaming stuff from my NAS.

Cheers,

/j
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