I need help, or opinions, and I know I’ll get it here
new house, can’t put holes in the walls, don’t want to run cables all over the house, so, how do I hook the router, the 3 PC’s, the two laptops and the media streamer up so they can stream HD1080 vid?
Curently the adsl modem/router is by the front door (phone master socket), WiFi & hooked to the rest of the world via a homeplug.
Main MCE PC, in the living room groundfloor, homeplug.
Ali’s PC, in the living room possibly moving to one of the bedrooms on the first floor, homeplug.
Server WHS, in one of the bedrooms on the first floor, homeplug.
Media Streamer Asus O!Play, Master Bedroom Second Floor, Homeplug.
2x Laptop, all over, wireless G.
All the homeplugs are curently standard Devolo ‘hi spped’ units, 85Mbs. This dosent seem to be fast enough for streaming HD as it just stutters all the time.
OK, simple answer I know is to wire the place, cat5e / 6, I know but as I said at the top of the post I can’t. So I’m looking at replacing with faster homeplug or with faster WiFi. BUT, clearly there was going to be a but, I dont know which way will a) do what I want and importantly b) not cost me the earth.
we had the same dilemma, I went wireless for a little while, and ended buying a load of trunking that runs cable round the house. Entire house is gigabit networked and it didn’t fall foul of the “you’re not doing that to the new house” of SWMBO.
The trunking I got wasn’t cheap, cost me more than a decent wireless router, but it is non-intrusive and works well. Doors were sorted by a swift run under the carpet.
Wireless, no chance, 720 is the best you’ll stream over a really good wireless connection.
If you really can’t cable, your only option I guess is to use Homeplug, isn’t there a faster speed than 85 now? You’d still be at the mercy of the quality of your wiring, but might be worth a look? You’re gonna need 100 megabit speeds for 1080.
my wireless is N+G and although I can’t say about streaming, it does achieve the 144Mbs that my laptop says it is connected at, only for large transfers though once the connection has got over the latency issue.
looks like this would work if available for UK wiring.
Feature Plaster Networks Other Adapters
Broadband performance for multimedia content (200Mbps PHY) yes partially
Secure (128-bit AES encryption) yes partially
Dual Ethernet ports yes partially
Powerline isolators for improved performance (option) yes partially
Browser-based administration (Windows, Mac, Linux) yes partially
Perhaps some plug adapters?
Power 100-240V AC, 50-60 Hz
I have used Aboundi www.aboundi.com in several installs in Grocery stores. It works great a security is A1. Look for something like the http://aboundi.com/Product/PLC/AEC1000-004.html for a complete solution. Like I said we have used this in Grocery stores, and with 30+ end points it just works (extra Routers were used of course).
Well I went the whole hog, Gigabit, and a move of the router to mean I could hard wire into two of the macines. was the cheepest and easiest solution in the end. Cheers for your help and advice though guy’s.
