Re: Powerline Ethernet Technology

["solentelectricalservices" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil which HDbaeT units do you use, I have a cyp one sat here to test?
Are you still involved with smartkontrol/energa? if so drop me an email
please!

Hope your well

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Neil Ball" <neilball@...> wrote:
>
> Well I can push a full bandwidth 1080P 3D video and lossless HD audio
down a
> single Cat5e over quite some distance using HDBaseT extenders (as well
as
> RS232, IR and Ethernet data), and Kaleidescape movie streaming over a
> Cat5e-based Ethernet network with no issues at all. If I were wiring
today
> (I moved in to my self-build 5 years ago) I would go for Cat6 now
rather
> than Cat5e (always better to have bandwidth to spare) although in most
> installs it makes little or no difference.
>
>
>
> I certainly would not be relying on powerline having had much
experience of
> it when trying to get a network running around an old cottage I rented
while
> building my house. It worked well enough for a few Ethernet
connections but
> there is no way it would cope with whole-house data/AV distribution.
>
>
>
> Neil B.
>
>
>
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Bryan Smith
> Sent: 30 January 2012 16:48
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Powerline Ethernet Technology
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am confused. On the one hand I have read that Cat5e is not capable
of
> handling HD video yet now I am reading that I can send it over the
mains
> using the 200Mbps Homeplug standard.
>
> If Homeplug really will do the job, and given its low cost and ease of
> expansion, why would anyone bother to pull miles of Cat5e?
>
> My major refurb/extension project as yet has no ceilings or dry
lining,
> or even electrics so I am well placed to get someone to install cable
to
> a perfectly located node zero, but I am wondering whether I should
bother.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> --
> Bryan Smith
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