On Thursday 09 August 2007 12:59, Dr Adam J Trickett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been thinking about getting a pair of Ethernet over mains
> jobbies to extend my network out of my office. Devolo are the
> market leader and openly support Linux, so I'll probably go with
> them, BUT, is it worth more for 200Mbps over 85Mbps?
>
> I think my usage would be running a notebook at one end with X sessions
> back to my main systems and possibly streaming audio (not video).
>
> Dabs et al are flogging a pair of 85 units for GBP80 and a pair of
> 200 units for GBP115.
I got a pair of Devolo 200 AV units from Dabs, and they work like a charm,
plug them in and they just work! I'm even converting people at work who have
tried and failed with WiFi before.
I'm told that the Solwise and Devolo units are virtually identical and should
be 100% interoperable. LinkSys also make a device which should interoperate
but I don't know how reliable they interoperate.
The Netgear and D-Link 200 units use another standard (Opera DS2) and are NOT
compatible with the HomePlug AV standard unit from LinkSys, Devolo, ZyXEL and
Solwise.
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
This would of course be likely to trigger a real constitutional crisis,
but as this Government has done so much to destroy the constitution
already, it seems only reasonable for other people to be allowed to join in.
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