[tintoo]

I'm looking into networking my house using power lines. I'm gonna use the network to connect a couple of PC's for browsing and 2 gaming consoles. Mostly though, I plan to use it for HD video streaming. I'm talking about 5GB to 12GB .mkv video files. There's only gonna be 1 stream going at any given time.

I've been looking at the Linksys adapter and it claims to reach speeds up to 200Mbps. I really don't know how well it performs nor know anyone that has used it.

Will the power lines provide enough bandwidth to stream without having any problems?

[winner2010]

Christoph Gartmann wrote:
> In article <>, (gene martinez) writes:
>
>>I though I had seen a ethernet over ac power adapter. Two units that
>>you plug into any outlet and then you plug your ethernet into the
>>unit. Does anyone know of the units or a link??
>
>
> Google for "powerline". There are quite a few products around. But be aware of
> the following:
> - these products will not work if the way between the two boxes passes some
> sort of a line filter
> - they won't work with a 66% probability if the way between the two boxes
> goes through a fuse box
>
> Regards,
> Christoph Gartmann
>
Most homes (and office building) have multiple feeds, homes have two,
that are split from the transformer to give you both 240 and 120 volt
supply. As with many devices that use the AC wiring to transmit signals,
including these, the signal gets dropped between these two feeds since
there is not direct coupling except the transformer in most cases which
acts as a big attenuator (inductive load) to the higher frequencies that
are needed to be passed through the wiring.

I would guess since some power companies are sending date through major
power lines there would be some product out there that could couple the
high frequencies between the two feeds.

If anything some real good in electronics could whip up something pretty
cheap, would just need a high powe
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