| Home Plug Turbo (85Mbps) |
| Solwise 85 Mbps Home Plug Ethernet |
Solwise 85Mbps Home Plug WiFi |
VeseNET 85 Mbps Home Plug Ethernet |
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85Mbps Ethernet
Home Plug 1.0 Turbo |
NET-PL-85PE_MK2 |
each
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NET-PL-85PE-TWIN_MK2
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each twin pack
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85Mbps
Ethernet / WiFi
Home Plug 1.0 Turbo |
NET-PL-85PEW_MK2 |
each |
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85Mbps
Ethernet
Home Plug 1.0 Turbo |
NET-PLA-85-E |
each |
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| VeseNET 85Mbps Home Plug Triple Ethernet |
Solwise Home Plug ADSL Modem Router |
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Solwise introduction to Home Plug products
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85Mbps
Ethernet
Home Plug 1.0 Turbo
NET-PLA-85-3PE |
each
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85 Mbps
Home Plug 1.0 Turbo
ADSL-SAR-605EH
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Modem/Router,
1Ethernet port with 85Mbps Home Plug
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| Home Plug AV (200Mbps) |
| Solwise Home Plug AV Simple Connect & Mains Pass Through |
Solwise Home Plug AV Simple Connect |
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200Mbps
NET-PL-200AV-PIGGY
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200Mbps
NET-PL-200-AV-PUSH |
each |
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200 Mbps - High Power
NET-PL-200-AVH-PUSH |
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| Home Plug AV (200Mbps) |
HomePlug AV WiFi |
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NET-PLA-AV-3E-PIGGY6
VeseNET 3 Ethernet Port Power Strip with Simple Connect |
200Mbps
NET-PL-200AV-PEW-N
AV HomePlug / 11n WiFi / 2 Ethernet Ports |
200Mbps
NET-PL-200AV-PEW
AV HomePlug / 54g WiFi |
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Home Plug Euro (14Mbps) |
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NET-PL-200AV11NRT
Home Plug AV
200 AV Home Plug,
4 port Wireless N AP Router
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NET-PL-14PE(EU) (Euro)
14Mbps
Ethernet
Home Plug 1.0 |
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(If you have a 3-phase supply, don't expect Powerline networking to work between phases. Most houses are supplied with a single-phase which is different to each of their neighbours, so Powerline communication between neighbours is unlikely.)
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| Home Plug vs 54g Wifi test
An obvious comparison when investigating Home Plug devices is to compare them against traditional wifi devices. Apart from the factors such as reliability and the important point as to whether the network simply works or not (a recent survey found that 25% of home wifi users have problems with connection reliability however the same survey found that for 99% of Home Plug users their network worked first time, straight out of the box) one question is how the performance compares.
To try and answer this we decided to do a simple
back-to-back speed test comparing 14Meg Home Plug, 85Meg Home Plug
(called Home Plug Turbo), 200Meg Home Plug and 54Meg (11g) Wifi. The
results were very interesting. For the purpose of the experiment
we did a simple test involving transferring a 25MegaByte file between
a server and a windows PC. In this way we would try to emulate a
typical working network test. To be fair all round the mains used
for the Home Plug devices was clean and the Home Plug adapters were
plugged directly into ring main sockets (not extensions). The wifi
devices were Senao Prism chipset parts next to each other on the
same desk - the wifi signal was excellent.
These were the results:
PL14 - 14Meg Home Plug adapter: 7.5Mb/s
PL85 - 85Meg Home Plug Turbo adapter: 25Mb/s
PL200AV - 200Meg Home Plug adapter: 40Mb/s
54g Wifi - 14Mb/s
Interesting yes?! So this shows that 54g wifi was
a long way from 54Meg performance even with a perfect wifi signal!
When we moved one of the radio devices into the next room the wifi
speed went down by over 30%! It also shows that Home Plug turbo is
at least as good as perfect 11g wifi and, in our test, was actually
nearly twice as fast. It also shows that 14Meg Home Plug is really
quite good and certainly up to the task of most home/SOHO tasks
such as shared internet access and simple file sharing between PC's.
In fact I would guess that 14Meg Home Plug is perfectly adequate
for 90% of home users that simple want to distribute internet access
and, for those users, I would say that Home Plug Turbo is not worth
the extra cost. The new 200Meg (AV) units are blindingly fast and,
in our own tests, we were of the opinion that the measured performance
might have been distorted to some extent by the PC's involved i.e.
the PC's couldn't shift the data fast enough to keep up with the
adapters! Something for the speed freaks to consider but way outside
the requirements for the average home or office setup.
Solwise customer, Keith Robinson, bought the PL-85's and liked them so much he put them in his company's staff magazine, read his write up here (pdf)


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