Powerline Connectivity

As long power line is on same circuit then should work

June,
Do you mean same branch (individual) or same panel?

Same panel

Sorry all, perhaps I didn't explain propely. There are two separate consumer units (fuse Boxes) in house. Router is connected to one consumer unit & tv will be connected to the other, so they are not on same circuit. The only common connection is the mains into the house where both C. Units are wired to.

You can always return them if they don't work.

jameskillman wrote:
Sorry all, perhaps I didn't explain propely. There are two separate consumer units (fuse Boxes) in house.

It will not work that way.. I needs to be on same panel

Just a thought. If the two panels share a common feed from utility then it just might work because there really isn't anything to prevent it. I think generally speaking they assume the long service feeds from the utilities would stop it from working, but if sharing a common feed I see no reason why it wouldn't work.

Coming in a month late here. I have a similar but first let me answer the first question.

If the two rooms are on different circuits, then powerline will not work.

I have the same arrangement. Here is how I manage it.

In the room with the modem/router a powerline circuit takes a signal to a crappy Edimax (that is a part of my own question) wireless extender. This then broadcasts the wireless.

In the house on a separate mains circuit, I have a Netgear WN2000RPT repeater. This tunes into the the Edimax extender.

The WN2000RPT broadcats in the house and feeds a powerline circuit in the house.

So you can bridge the two buildings with wireless and then use powerline on the separate circuits.

What I want to know is if I can use a Netgear powerline unit to replace the WN2000RPT as the receiver for the Edimax extender and then use the Netgear powerline to add Ethernet to the circuit that now gets fed by the WN2000RPT and its separate non-wireless powerline device.

Ideally, I want to ditch the Edimax and replace it with the WN2000RPT. This would then provide a wireless bridge to the Netgear powerline receiver which then feeds the second mains circuit.

Guess I should draw a diagram to explain what I want.

I will start a separate discussion with this, as there is a good chance that no one is watching this thread any more.

It will be a whole lot easier to use high power external antenna capable AP

I would look open-mesh.com


I use these and it's 24db ...

jmizoguchi wrote:
It will be a whole lot easier to use high power external antenna capable AP

That does not answer my question.

I want to know if my plan would work, not whether I would be better off buying a telephone company, launching a satellite or any other variation on the theme of, to recycle an old Irish joke, "I wouldn't start from here to get there."