On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:00:41 -0500 "Kaleb C. Striplin" <ka...@striplin.net> wrote:
> So does it run faster, slower, or the same as cat5? "Ordinary" Cat-5 runs 100 megabits/second (Mbps -- note bits not bytes). Most of the ones listed on Newegg say 200 Mbps; some say 500 Mbps. On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:17:57 -0500 "Kaleb C. Striplin" <ka...@striplin.net> wrote: > So on this discussion of this power line home ethernet deal, what > I am wanting to do is have a line from my upstairs office down to > the main TV area in the living room and have a router there to > then connect the TV, sat box, and DVD to it, in addition to having > a wifi access point there. So does anybody know if this power > line thing can serve the purpose of connecting the router upstairs > to the router downstairs? So in other words multiple devices > would be coming thru that line. Or is it strictly for extending > the network so 1 computer. Anything you can stuff onto one Cat-5 cable you can put onto a ethernet-over-powerline adapter. The individual devices put their traffic on the cable simultaneously with different addresses; they don't care what the transmission medium is. So, yes, you can do what you want. Craig _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
