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floppy:
Hello,
on my good old machine, I have a WLAN. But this is not really fast. I dont have a LAN harness; except I take one through the whole house (25m..); what my wife dont like it.
So, I found something else:  "Home plug Ethernet Adapter" (1 at a LAN router, the second nearby my PC).
I received already a response from somebody saying in www.wer-weiss-was.de : faster than WLAN: yes, Slower than LAN-harness: yes.
The experience seems not to have been so good (seems not dead negativ).
Has somebody here any experience with it? (good/bad comparison with WLAN/LAN-harness..)
- security ok? setup required?
- speed in comparison to WLAN/Harness-LAN?
- which models are the best?
- are there connecting recommendations?
Thanks. (I need more feedback/recommendations before I buy it)

Juanito:
Orange have been selling these in France for several years now and say they are good enough to stream hd tv, so you'd think they should be OK.

I didn't try myself though..

SamK:
The memory gets a little hazy about the details as it is some years ago since I last used these devices.   

They were used in a Widows XP environment and worked reliably and well (never used with TC or any Linux distro).  The units had a published maximum speed of 85Mbps and consistently achieved in the region of 35/40Mbps.  This was significantly quicker than the wireless adaptors I checked at the time.  The speed of Home Plug devices has increased since then a higher speeds might be obtained. 

If my memory is accurate the speed of a Home Plug LAN decreases as the number of devices in use increases (five were used in the LAN).   

Which are the best is open to personal interpretation; again from memory the devices I describe were German.
   

beerstein:
IHome Plug Ethernet Adaptor = power line ethernet adaptor - am I right?

I use those for several years. In Bavaria/Germany I can recommend the Allnet brand.
A pair costs about Euro 80.00 incl tax in Munich. Price depens on speed.

In California I recently bought a set of two drom BestBuy for about $149.00 plus tax.
Brand is "BELKIN" This set is much more powerful than the Allnet I am using in Bavaria.
This Belkins have switsches where you can set the NIC basis hardware address and some
other secuity features

floppy:
I installed it. 2x conrad powerline AV500.
very good.
I am happy.

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