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- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Don't bother trying to read anything called a "book" then... I hear some of them don't have any pictures at all.
- exobyte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@bitterg: if you're using wireless, it's due to interference. If it's over phone or electrical, same thing.
The other things you might be forgetting are TCP overhead and speed of your hard drive. Couple a few of those together, i.e. non-ideal, but decent, circumstances, and you have the difference in speed. - bitterg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4These speeds are theoretical though. I have an ethernet bridge I use to connect to my media server downstairs, and it gets about 30% of the advertised throughput. That's not using coax.
- halfcockedjack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That's 1/3 of the speed of gigabit ethernet, more than fast enough to stream HD video, and most houses built in the last 10-15 years have coaxial cable running everywhere in the house. Article does a good job explaining why we haven't heard more from this technology.
- GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If the technology is reliable and the products are priced reasonably enough I think they will be a pretty good solution for those not willing to fiddle with wiring their own homes or hiring someone to do it for them.
I would personally recommend, however, that you get your house wired with CAT5e or CAT6 cable. It's a good investment, and will allow you to do much more in the long run. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@joosebcuk:
My comment is based on the fact that I have been using/testing/working with HPNA devices since before it was even a solid spec.
It's way more hype than reality. I've worked with several MSO's in the US and Canada and have been in more "typical" customer homes than I can possibly imagine, all as part of a larger-scale product beta.
The coax in most homes has been horribly hacked by the average customer, to the point that things like this work very unreliably, and/or nowhere near the published specs.
Cheapo Radio Shack RG-59 with a crushed dielectric and a twist-on end is not all that reliable.
On the copper-wire side, you have similar problems, although usually not as bad. At the same time many homes of the 40-50 year old vintage don't have that many phone outlets, so you're often running new wires anyway, in which case running Cat6 is as easy as running "Cat0"
There is a reason that consumer-accessible HPNA products have gone away (for a short while in 2001ish they were readily available), it's because this thing doesn't work as advertised.
I'm sure this is all redundant information to you, though. Your wonderfully insightful jackass comment must imply that you also have extensive hand-on knowledge of HPNA technologies, and you're not just having an emotional reaction to a marketing press-release? - looselips, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now I need is a gigabit conversion of my wired connections and an dramatic increase in my wireless speed.
I will support anything that can and will bring the cable monopoly to its knees. - Andy.D, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm anticipating this, if it can make it to retail. 802.11g doesn't have the power to cover my whole house and I have read that N will be a little weaker if not faster.
But my house has coax in almost every room, and 320Mbps is more than enough for HD steaming in the house, if that's really the speed. - joosebuck, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6@BrK1: I can see why you wouldn't understand the benefit this offers to someone whose house they have owned for the past 40 years (pre cat5e/cat6 being run during house construction) and wants to network without having ethernet cables strewn about the house, and to which wireless isn't a feasible option.
Wait, no I can't see why you don't understand that. Other than that you're a jackass? - JQP123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"If the technology is reliable and the products are priced reasonably enough I think they will be a pretty good solution ... "
In the consumer market, the keys are *price* and ease of use. And price is related to production volume. Wireless is already well established, it's easy to use and has the necessary production volume so you can get a quasi-decent wireless router for $50. Unseating wireless will a tough proposition, it's a chicken and egg type problem. - evilic0n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://www.duggmirror.com/
- exobyte, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5For lazy readers without netowrking/communications background, coax and twisted pair are cable/TV wiring and phone wiring, respectively.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5Wow, I'm sure both their users are eagerly anticipating this.
- cmajewski, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3F it dig me down...
- Pattyo13, on 05/14/2009, -10/+1that article didn't have enough pictures to keep my mind entertained. i didn't bother reading it. would it have been that hard to throw some charts or something in there?
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