I am using a netgear wn3000rp. Haven't noticed any problems

It's a personal preference, and mine is that I hate the things.

I've wired up my house with cat 6 ethernet. If this is not practical, homeplugs may be a good compromise, but it really depends on the quality of your wiring.

Remember too that you need host and slave plugs to be on the same ring main, generally ruling out a downstairs router and upstairs slave. You'll need to know how your house is wired up.

In reply to a post by lewisskinner:

Remember too that you need host and slave plugs to be on the same ring main, generally ruling out a downstairs router and upstairs slave. You'll need to know how your house is wired up.

Not true, they just need to be on the same phase - different ring mains, even different consumer units (as in my case) are no problem at all.

Edited by kasg (Wed 05-Jun-13 15:48:35)

Eek - does that mean the signal leaks out to (some of) the neighbours?

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

Eek - does that mean the signal leaks out to (some of) the neighbours?

It depends on how your local mains is wired up.

If your mains goes from the substation the daisy chains from house to house then possibly, in my area all the houses are connected directly to the sub station and so the chance of picking up a signal is very low indeed.

In my house it is completely impractical to wire the house due to the layout and so homeplugs are a good way just to get a basic connection to the other rooms of the house.

I use D-link and they are very good indeed.

As for interferrence look up the Intel white paper on how USB 3 emits interferrence on the 2.4 GHz spectrum and then ask how that managed to get by regulations as that is going to play merry hell with a lot more people than home plugs will.

Edited by deleted (Wed 05-Jun-13 22:34:26)

As for interferrence look up the Intel white paper on how USB 3 emits interferrence on the 2.4 GHz spectrum

The only ones I have seen, had to place a wireless dongle on top of a USB3 connecter to show interference. A long way from mains-borne interference, or radiating mains wiring.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/universal-...

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

Eek - does that mean the signal leaks out to (some of) the neighbours?

I believe that is technically possible if the properties are sufficiently close and on the same phase, though encryption should prevent access to data.

"..Remember too that you need host and slave plugs to be on the same ring main, generally ruling out a downstairs router and upstairs slave. You'll need to know how your house is wired up. .."

My units are definitely on different rings; the upstairs is separate from the downstairs. The upstairs ring has the host and the downstairs ring the slave. There are no problems; D-link units

hah. That reminded me of this:

http://community.plus.net/blog/2012/03/15/powerline-...

In reply to a post by professor973:

As for interferrence look up the Intel white paper on how USB 3 emits interferrence on the 2.4 GHz spectrum

The only ones I have seen, had to place a wireless dongle on top of a USB3 connecter to show interference. A long way from mains-borne interference, or radiating mains wiring.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/universal-...

Yes and in a laptop how close will the wireless card will be near the USB ports.

Most laptops will have the wireless card in the middle of the base and USB ports on either side.

And now we have USB 3 coming on laptops now and all Intel suggests is keeping the USB ports away from wireless network cards.

How do you achieve that on a laptop or will costs go up by hard shielding the USB ports?