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I've just got a HomePlug installation set up in my flat. Fed up with the dodgy wifi with my thick walls, I plugged in a couple of boxes that pass network signals over the power cables, and entered a password. Bingo - massively faster, totally reliable, network connections inside my flat.

Win!

In other news, I've finally got around to tweaking the delicious->lj script so that it takes into account the time zome difference between me and my hosting server (5 hours). Back when I first tried it they kept getting bounced as backdated posts, but with a little PHP fun (and getting my providers to upgrade me from PHP4 to 5) it should all work nicely. I guess we'll find out at 9am tomorrow, when it should all kick into action...

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aitkendrum.livejournal.com

I've got Homeplug in the cottage and it is really simple and effective. Damn fine for streaming movies to the TV from the PC.

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nmg.livejournal.com

I'm sending this message courtesy of a Netgear XE104. It Just Works.

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andrewducker

Great, innit.

I don't seem to be able to get more than about 13Mbps of throughput out of mine at the moment, but I'm going to play with it some more...

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robhu.livejournal.com

Are there ways of tweaking it?

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robhu.livejournal.com

How fast does it work?

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andrewducker

Not as such - but plugging it directly into sockets helped, as did making sure its cables weren't tangled around other ones...

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andrewducker

Not managed to get more than 13Mbps out of actual transfer so far, so not as good as ethernet. Better than my WiFi ever managed though...

Of course, that transfer speed might be down to a bunch of other factors. I'll need to get a long ethernet cable hooked up at some point to see what a direction connection is like...