Musselswhile i do find the powerline tech quite useful.... why bother with a 3 port? you might as well throw a $10 100Mb switch after them.


i guess it saves on cabling and space but it just doesnt seem that useful

f22a4banditI can see this being useful, at least some what, to people who don't want to deal with wireless connections. You can connect an ethernet-ready TV, blu-ray player and console at one time with this "convenient" adapter.

Musselsyeah but how does it help over getting a cheaper (or higher speed for the same money) adaptor, and a switch?

NAVI_Zso...... you guys are saying its not worth getting two or three of these to network pc's for say lan gaming? how about dl'ing torrents? A ps3? is it cause of the thorughput speed? 200 mbps not fast enough??:confused::wtf:

Musselsdurp?

in any of those situations, wired is far superior and cheaper.

GzeroIf you get enough people to play on the same network as you or have a fast enough internet connection to saturate the connection of course.

Musselstransfer a file. network saturated.

with the size of games and their patches these days, LAN gaming on anything less than gigabit can be quite tedious.


also, you missed 'cheaper'

IcrushitIThe big picture here is how the internet could be delivered to every house in America through the power lines but the major players (Cable ISPs) would lose control. The Cable outfits wouldn't be able to spew the bullsh_t anymore. They wouldn't be able to suck the government into more bailouts(tax payers Money). The power companies would be the gateway to the internet. The problem here,depending which side of the fence your on is what hardware tech would become redundant.
This tech has been around for quite sometime. Read about it in the nineties. It more or less started in Europe, but North America(USA) didn't want it in the market place unless USA had control of it through a variation of the patent, like the back ground of HDTV and how the USA kept the Japanese out of the N. America market place for some ten years.
The USA FCC came out with excuses of how the Powerline AV Adapters would interfere with radio waves etc. Like Europe has no tv or radio stations. The technology is already here to give us 1 gig. So now the US tech companies are going to milk the consumers for all its worth. Start at 200 then go to 300 and so on. The usual clap trap. The USA has been doing this for years, keeping new technology out, and then bitches when China does it to them. The only difference here is China can't be bullied by them. In the mean time North Americans are the losers of a lot of this tech that's been around for years in other parts of the world.

GzeroWhat you chatting :P

This product here is similar to what your talking about. But the caveat is that pushing signal these products push is rather difficult. It's easy to do on a point to point basis for trialling but to do it on the national grid?


Also these started at 14mbps and then jumped to 84mbps. 200 is the current, so there isn't any "milking" going on if you pay less than $100(USD) for a pair.

IcrushitI"Milking" is exactly what it is,if what you say is true"Also these started at 14mbps and then jumped to 84mbps. 200 is the current". The potential to give consumers 1gig now is available, the industry has stated as much, but they would rather "milk" by coming out with increments and having the consumer upgrade every six months to a year.Part of what I'm saying is if the US government would put the billions of bailout money into R&D companies instead of Corporations who funnel it back to the shareholders, you would get a bigger bang for your buck and who knows where the high tech industry would be. There still hasn't been an accountability program in place when the government handed out all those billions.

IcrushitI"Milking" is exactly what it is,if what you say is true"Also these started at 14mbps and then jumped to 84mbps. 200 is the current". The potential to give consumers 1gig now is available, the industry has stated as much, but they would rather "milk" by coming out with increments and having the consumer upgrade every six months to a year.Part of what I'm saying is if the US government would put the billions of bailout money into R&D companies instead of Corporations who funnel it back to the shareholders, you would get a bigger bang for your buck and who knows where the high tech industry would be. There still hasn't been an accountability program in place when the government handed out all those billions.

IcrushitIThe big picture here is how the internet could be delivered to every house in America through the power lines but the major players (Cable ISPs) would lose control. The Cable outfits wouldn't be able to spew the bullsh_t anymore. They wouldn't be able to suck the government into more bailouts(tax payers Money). The power companies would be the gateway to the internet. The problem here,depending which side of the fence your on is what hardware tech would become redundant.
This tech has been around for quite sometime. Read about it in the nineties. It more or less started in Europe, but North America(USA) didn't want it in the market place unless USA had control of it through a variation of the patent, like the back ground of HDTV and how the USA kept the Japanese out of the N. America market place for some ten years.
The USA FCC came out with excuses of how the Powerline AV Adapters would interfere with radio waves etc. Like Europe has no tv or radio stations. The technology is already here to give us 1 gig. So now the US tech companies are going to milk the consumers for all its worth. Start at 200 then go to 300 and so on. The usual clap trap. The USA has been doing this for years, keeping new technology out, and then bitches when China does it to them. The only difference here is China can't be bullied by them. In the mean time North Americans are the losers of a lot of this tech that's been around for years in other parts of the world.

wahdangunyeah thats quite true, even in here powerplant company can deliver you a broadband connection and several house have already subscribed, but somehow i never heard it again, so yeah maybe cable company in my country have lobyed my government to stop it