As an aside that may be of interest, we tried recently to use the Homeplug standard powerline system for some extra temporary PC's on an office LAN.
The concept is great, you connect an adapter to a port on your LAN switch and to your powerline via a normal plug, and then connect each PC to either a network card adpater to powerline, or a USB adapter to powerline. Instant network expansion with no extra wires.
It worked reasonably well, although a bit slow most of the time.
This was until a large construction project started next to our office building. From then on the only time that the PC's connected to our office LAN would have any access, was during the lunch-time shutdown of the equipment on the construction site and in the evenings when the work stopped.
We didnt use the system for very long after the connection was discovered.
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As an aside that may be of interest, we tried recently to use the Homeplug standard powerline system for some extra temporary PC's on an office LAN.
The concept is great, you connect an adapter to a port on your LAN switch and to your powerline via a normal plug, and then connect each PC to either a network card adpater to powerline, or a USB adapter to powerline. Instant network expansion with no extra wires.
It worked reasonably well, although a bit slow most of the time.
This was until a large construction project started next to our office building. From then on the only time that the PC's connected to our office LAN would have any access, was during the lunch-time shutdown of the equipment on the construction site and in the evenings when the work stopped.
We didnt use the system for very long after the connection was discovered.
It was quite a disappointment overall.