Powerline adapters

[burnsy]

HI guys and Gals

I am trying to find a way to set up a receiver in my sons room which is on the second floor of the house without running 100 feet of cat5 or spending a fortune and was wondering if anyone can tell me a bit about these powerline adapters I get the idea that the transmitter unit plugs into the receptacle close to the router and you run a small cat5 cable to the transmitter then the receiver unit plugs in to a receptacle close to the receiver and again a short cat5 runs from the STB to the receiver unit but do you have to configure the router or is it simply plug and play


http://transatelectronics.com/store/85mbps-powerline-network-adapters-2pcs_P405?zenid=3030a352833c8a177b12dad8546e7274

[Costactc]

Plug and play. Some come with a diskette for startup, running 4 in my home.

[burnsy]

how do you find them as far as reliability

[burnsy]

I forgot to ask if I have one Transmitter unit can I add a second receiver or do you need 1 pair per STB

[StanW]

I have 4 from transat ... Work great - not a single complaint . Plug and play...

[StanW]

I forgot to ask if I have one Transmitter unit can I add a second receiver or do you need 1 pair per STB
Yep...............1 transmitter to multiple reception points.

[burnsy]

Cool I will order mine today thanks

[Costactc]

One per unit, sometimes need unplugging but not often.

[StanW]

Do yourself a favor and get four - I ended up paying for shipping twice ..

[n3uspeed2]

If you have just 1 reciever you will need 2 per unit for the 1st reciever then any additional reciever you will need 1. The first one serves as the master....I tested with homelit at my brothers house it didnt work very good it kept dropping the connection and the adaptors would loose the ip address. I bought a pair of belkin has a transfer rate of to 256 mbs at target and it worked perfect ever since.

[snake]

i use netgear xe 102 and 105 for over 2 years now without issues ,i have had to reboot them now and then but i think they work great.

[doggy10]

i too have them. mine are 256 mbs and it works great!!!

[Cheryl55]

I have a pair of the above and was wanting to add a receiver. Do I have to buy another Vikosmo or will any powerline adapter work with the above?