I read some posts about home networking products, especially about MoCA. The most well-known home networking options should be wireless or PLC. (In fact, they are the only options I have known.) After a short search & read, it is much more complicated. Except to live in a house built in these year with built-in wired ethernet, it often take us time and effort to consider what to setup the home networking environment.
Wireless is convenient and flexible. Never care about the troublesome wire. Anywhere in the house, only if the signal is available there. However, there seems always be corners make the device lose connection. Then move around to find somewhere with better signal strength seems another annoying thing.
Using the power line looks like a good idea. It is almost available everywhere. Really easy to use. But its price would make me want to reconsider it.
One D-Link DHP-301 kit with two units sells $129.28 on Amazon
Another option is a new one comes to my mind this time, MoCA. It reuses another existed facility in the house, TV coaxial cable. Except it may be a little hard to use than PLC in my opinion,
it through put may outperform PLC.
(HomePlug AV, 189 Mbit/s)
(NETGEAR MCAB1001, 270 Mbps, )
HomePNA(HPAN, Home Phoneline Networking Alliance) is another method which makes use of phone line.
G.hn, HomeGrid maybe the next generation's options.
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May it would be interesting to know more about their PHY details.
Monday, January 12, 2009
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