In reply to a post by undecidedadrian:

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?

I agree with most of what you have said, though there is 5gHz wireless and still a long way from widespread homeplug interference.

All the ring mains are hooked to the same bus-bar in the consumer unit. Does not make any difference here with the T-Link ones I evaluated.

Edited by professor973 (Thu 06-Jun-13 10:42:42)

Don't think i'll be going for the Devolo 500 series anymore as external reviews cement what has been touched on in this thread about poor speeds etc. My electrical wiring must be around 20-25 years old I reckon. I did read that daisy chaining pass through homeplugs may give better results due to the filters.

I'm still looking into homeplugs but am also considering moving the Plusnet router into a different area of my home and using its 3 idle LAN ports.

Presumably it's perfectly fine to use a 10-15m ethernet cable to connect it back to the Openreach fibre modem? The default one is probably a metre or less in length.

Edited by deleted (Tue 11-Jun-13 14:13:34)

In reply to a post by RiffRaff:

Presumably it's perfectly fine to use a 10-15m ethernet cable to connect it back to the Openreach fibre modem? The default one is probably a metre or less in length.

Yes, should be fine well in excess of that length.