Chrysalis
I use Home Plugs because to install an ethernet cable tidily would involve lifting carpets and floor boards and drilling through walls. Of course I could just tack it round the skirting and up the stairs but then you haven't met my wife!

I use homeplugs because my landlord won't let me cable up the house.

Because it is a pain. I ideally want the router in my study, but would have to run 20m or so of Cat 5 and would have to drill and drag through walls as it is unsightly to tack around the skirting board.

So the router stays in the room with the master socket and homeplug to my study. I still get 74mb/down though

I just put it alongside base of wall, and it has to go across my hallway, I put a mat over it in the hallway. In the living room where my phone line is as well as my gigabit router, its behind furniture hugging the wall.

Its doable if motivated enough, shouldnt need to put under carpets to keep tidy. Granted tho I dont have anyone living with me to moan about it

If its on a different floor I would consider putting up the outside wall, I did that at a previous address and rain snow etc. never affected it.

I've cabled up my entire house as I've renovated it, it's a major job even when renovating a house, whilst living in it at the same time with my family.

I do still have one cable running externally, it's been there about ten years and is still OK. The new cable is run from the server room but it is sat in a coil behind the settee ready to run around to the TV/media centre but just haven't finished it yet.

We also have what must be 60 meters run outside at work, been there over ten years as well, and it's only normal cat5e cable and runs fine as far as I know - it feeds my office, at 1Gbps

Well I have now "binned" the home plugs and will hard wire, just waiting for the cable to arrive. Since they have been disconnected my CRC's have only gone up a couple, normally they would be a couple of thousand in a day. The biggest significance is the FEC's which have gone from about 2,000,000 every 15 minutes to 1500!!!

Pretty dam conclusive, in my case at least, that home plugs should not be used on Infinity based systems!

Thanks for all the replies.

Edited by dgilbert2 (Sat 02-Feb-13 18:40:25)

Your results are in line with another recent thread. You're better off without the Homeplugs.

good job you may well have also been affecting neighbours as well.

The day it took me to dig the trench, lay the kopex and back-fill?

If I'd have tried to run it through the house it would have taken longer and ended in divorce.

Another pleasant surprise today around 2-3 days after removing the home plugs

The modem re-synched this morning and now Interleave has been removed and the sync speed up from 53MB to 57MB.

CRC's now around 1000 a day. Last time I was on FAST, CRC's were up at 300,000 a day!

Best decision yet to buy some cat5 cable and bin the home plugs! No wonder BT say for Vision Essential Extra you cannot use home plugs.