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| 1379748 | 2014-07-24 08:05:00 | There can be plenty of noise on mains power, a tiny bit more from a homeplug unit wont cause any meltdowns . Tiny? The facts speak for themselves: www.youtube.com |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1379749 | 2014-07-24 22:05:00 | Tiny? The facts speak for themselves: www.youtube.com heres the link he mentioned in the vid http://www.ukqrm.org.uk/ .. so lets also ban plasma TV's,fluro lighting, power tools, anything with coils that that switches on and off, solar power inverters, electric fences and the list goes on and on. My cellphone spits out a fair bit of noise (noise heard on computor powered speakers), lets ban those as well I havnt seen that many Ham radio operators in the homes that use these devices. So simple, if youre a HAM radio operator, dont use them. For 99.99% of us, they are just fine & dandy. Oh , and please dont quote links 4 years old using older tech Powerline adapters. Belkin, what do you expect :-) Sit a AM radio on top of a PC & see what happens. Cant hear the station with all the noise. What does that prove, nothing of interest |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1379750 | 2014-08-02 06:34:00 | Thank you all for the tips. I was not aware of the homeplug unit until saw it here. I currently have a Netgear DGND 3300v2 wireless DSL router. For now I will give a wireless extender a shot and decided to try Netgear ExtenderEX6100 www.netgear.com Typically for better coverage should wireless extenders be upstairs or downstairs ? I can easily move my router downstairs or leave it upstairs. |
learning (5137) | ||
| 1379751 | 2014-08-02 08:13:00 | Doesn't really matter if the extender is upstairs or down, as long as the overlap of the extender range is within the range of the Router. I've installed several of those Netgear extenders ( different model) and they have all worked fine. Sometimes depending on the layout of the house, the insulation in walls, floors etc, you have to move the extender about to get the best result. Just a Hint -- when you plug in the extenders to a power socket for the first time, attach a laptop to the Ethernet port and set it up manually (its very easy as the wizard walks you through) found the Auto setup doesn't work to well in most cases. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1379752 | 2014-08-02 09:30:00 | I like Wainuitech have installed several extenders and as long as within wireless range have worked fine. Also agree that manual config is often best. | berryb (99) | ||
| 1379753 | 2014-08-02 09:30:00 | found the Auto setup doesn't work to well in most cases. Do they ever? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1379754 | 2014-08-02 09:34:00 | Yes but not always the way you want them to work. The last D-Link extender I installed worked via the auto setup but I wanted to configure the SSID and password to something different. But have found a lot that don't auto setup. |
berryb (99) | ||
| 1379755 | 2014-08-02 09:38:00 | Its like the useless network wizard that was in XP. Why it was there in the 1st place, I have no idea. It didnt do anything. What took people ages to figure out, could have been done, in less than a minute if you did it manually | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1379756 | 2014-08-02 09:40:00 | Sorry, should have added /sarcasm to my post... ;) I hate autosetup features as they almost always get everything wrong or don't even work at all. Surprisingly though I have used the XP network wizard many times with success. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1379757 | 2014-08-02 09:42:00 | You're probably 1 out of a few billion then where it did work | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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