Free after MIR Homeplug adapter & bridge

[CloudMaker]

good deal coupons

 

[dopey5007]

not bad

 

[allisolm]

These are available at PC Club.

GigaFast HomePlug USB Adapter A5303909 $50 less $50 MIR.

GigaFast HomePlug Ethernet Bridge A5303902 $50 less $50 MIR.

Also free
Gigafast 802.11b Wireless-B PCMCIA Card For Notebook A5303201 $40 less $40 MIR.

BAFO 4-Port USB 2.0 PCI Card A3318000 $19.99 less $19.99 MIR.

 

[weepul]

dont' these electric outlet network adapters have a lot of noise, causing your network to be really slow?

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[Johnbear007]

I dunno originally they did, however awhile ago I heard tyhere was new technology.... dunno if it has panned out

 

[pyrojunkie]

You can't argue with free. I think I might take 2 of each.

 

[meices]

Yeah, last I heard is they had worked it out and are able to get awesome speeds with the newest technology for it. No clue how these work though

 

[CoolTech]

here's an excellent explanation

 

[Tokar]

homeplug is a pain in the ass...

my neighbor up the street has SO many problems with it. Took DAYS to first get it set up and recognizing all the computers on the network.
then a few days later the network went kaput. she called me over to fool with it. i couldnt do anything. its absolutely a pain in the ass.

i highly recommend not getting homeplug for a network.

HPNA networks run absolutely flawlessly. Thats Home Phoneline Network Alliance for thsoe who dont know.

Right now HPNA is 11mbps. Once the new v3.0 products come out it will be a blazing 128mbps...with the ability for products to reach up to 240mbps. BLOWING away homeplugs measly 14mbps.


But yes...nice deal since home plug adapters and routers and all that junk costs MUCHO dinero.

 

[yukichigai]

I'm using a homeplug network in my house right now. Unfortunately I had to make do with the USB adaptors and not the bridges, but regardless it works great. The only problems I've had with it were from my comp needing a reformat/reinstall. That and I couldn't run linux on my server/router because there are no USB linux drivers. That's gonna change though!

EDIT: Unfortunately this round of rebates isn't as cool as the last, which read: "Limit 1 rebate per product, 5 products per household/person/family."

EDITx2: More testimonial-esque stuff: While I was staying at my parents' place I had these things hooked up throughout the house. I first attempted to network my computer with my little brothers', but as his was running win98 it didn't like the USB part of it. Half the time I couldn't detect it. However, when I took my laptop to the absolute opposite end of the house -- about 900 feet of wiring away -- I was able to connect to my computer fine. It may be because my parents' place is way out in the middle of nowhere with hardly anybody else on the same power grid, but still....

 

[Ionizer86]

Hmm, looks as if 802.11b is still the best way to network when wires aren't convenient. Our D-Link enhanced 22MB/s 802.11b network tends to work relatively well, and the speed is decent too.

But nobody's complaining with free! If we didn't setup our 11b network, I'd probably be getting some of this gear here!

 

[GnatGoSplat]

I had a pair of the PE902-EBx wireless bridges for awhile. They are easy to set up. I only ran across 2 snags:

1) They had temperature-related snags where they would have difficulty connecting (no signal strength) if one had been on without connection for awhile. Unplugging it for a few seconds didn't help, I had to leave it unplugged for a minute or two. After cooldown, the two bridges would communicate. As long as they both remained plugged in and communicating with each other, they would never lose connection.
2) Standalone devices like networked media players need a crossover cable to work with the bridge. I struggled trying to get an Audiotron to work with a regular network cable for way too long before deciding to try a crossover cable, and voila!

Throughput was a consistent at around 5Mbps. This puts it faster than 11Mbps 802.11b whose throughput I found to be closer to 3.5-4Mbps and not at all consistent.
It is not as fast as 10Mbps HPNA 2.0 which I measured at a consistent 8.0Mbps. However, HomePlug is a LOT more convenient than HPNA. I use HPNA as well, but in my house, phone jacks are few and far between. The living room doesn't have a phone jack, and each room only has 1 jack and of course, on the opposite wall that I need it to be on. I have outlets everywhere. HomePlug is great, it would be perfect if it were faster. I would like to see at least a real 10Mbps throughput in the next version.

 

[MOONKEY]

Those are not bad at all. I paid full price for them. When I turned on both computers about the same time, it works great. If one computer is on for hours, then I turn on second computer, they sometimes don't see each other.

HPNA works better. My dad has not had any trouble for almost one year. 10 M is good; unless you have huge file, 1 M version is good enough and cheap.

I'd rather try ebay, no rebate to do; last time I got a pair of Diamond Phoneline 10M PCI for only $12 shipping included.