[Gslug-general] Powerline Home Networking

[Jason Self]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Stan Dyck <stan.dyck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone have any practical experience implementing powerline based home
> networks? Enough to be able to recommend for or against? I see a lot of
> howtos and marketing material out there but not a lot of discussion of the
> merits relative to wireless or traditional ethernet cabling.
>
> Linux support required of course but platform heterogeneity is desired.

I've never used it myself, although I imagine that there would be
potential problems: interference from electric motors on the same
circuit comes to mind. It sounds like it could be an interesting idea
in the right circumstances, though. I'd probably pick Ethernet every
time unless my situation made that impractical for some reason.