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I have a mixed network of wired and wifi.
For portable convenience I am considering two homeplugs to enable more
flexibility with my system.
I appreciate manufacturers like to exaggerate speed potential with their
products but are homeplugs more reliable (speedwise) than wifi systems.
Geoff Lane
Geoff Lane wrote:
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> I have a mixed network of wired and wifi.
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> For portable convenience I am considering two homeplugs to enable more
> flexibility with my system.
>
> I appreciate manufacturers like to exaggerate speed potential with their
> products but are homeplugs more reliable (speedwise) than wifi systems.
>
> Geoff Lane[/color]
I have not used a wifi network, but I have found my HomePlugs (Solwise
PL-14PE) to be very reliable. I have always achieved around 14mbps, never
lower than 11. I have used them all around the house with a mixture of
desktop and laptop PCs (Windows & Linux), a Macbook and an XBox360. The
only problem I have had has been a driver issue with my new laptop running
Kubuntu 7.10. No experience with 85mbps or 200mbps - I wish ;)
Andrew Woodward wrote:
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>> I appreciate manufacturers like to exaggerate speed potential with their
>> products but are homeplugs more reliable (speedwise) than wifi systems.[/color][/color]
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> I have not used a wifi network, but I have found my HomePlugs (Solwise
> PL-14PE) to be very reliable.[/color]
That's reassuring, my wifi is fine but I need to take advantage of
network booting requiring an ethernet connection.
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> only problem I have had has been a driver issue with my new laptop running
> Kubuntu 7.10.[/color]
That's surprising, I thought to the computer it was an ethernet connector.
Geoff Lane
Geoff Lane wrote:
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>> only problem I have had has been a driver issue with my new laptop
>> running Kubuntu 7.10.[/color]
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> That's surprising, I thought to the computer it was an ethernet connector.[/color]
So did I! When I bought a new laptop and installed Kubuntu it stopped
working. I went from scratching my head to tearing my hair out :(
Eventually, installing a different network card driver cured the problem.
Go figure...
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> Geoff Lane[/color]
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:48:10 +0100, Andrew Woodward wrote:
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>>> only problem I have had has been a driver issue with my new laptop
>>> running Kubuntu 7.10.[/color][/color][/color]
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>> That's surprising, I thought to the computer it was an ethernet
>> connector.[/color][/color]
It is. Still needs a driver to access it.
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> So did I! When I bought a new laptop and installed Kubuntu it stopped
> working. I went from scratching my head to tearing my hair out :(
> Eventually, installing a different network card driver cured the problem.
> Go figure...[/color]
Heh. Yeah. The new laptop uses a different ethernet adapter than your
old laptop, and you wouldn't think it would need a different driver?
Of course it needs a different driver. Duh.
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Dan C wrote:
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> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:48:10 +0100, Andrew Woodward wrote:
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>> So did I! When I bought a new laptop and installed Kubuntu it stopped
>> working. I went from scratching my head to tearing my hair out :(
>> Eventually, installing a different network card driver cured the problem.
>> Go figure...[/color]
>
> Heh. Yeah. The new laptop uses a different ethernet adapter than your
> old laptop, and you wouldn't think it would need a different driver?
>
> Of course it needs a different driver. Duh.
>
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Yes - but the sky2 driver that was installed with Kubuntu 7.10 worked fine
with a directly wired connection at 100mbps, but *didn't* work with the
HomePlug at 10mbps. To get the ethernet connector working with both I had
to replace the driver with the sk98lin version.
A search on "sky2 marvell yukon" will show lots of issues with that driver
on the Marvell adapters.
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:56:43 +0100, Andrew Woodward wrote:
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>>> So did I! When I bought a new laptop and installed Kubuntu it stopped
>>> working. I went from scratching my head to tearing my hair out :(
>>> Eventually, installing a different network card driver cured the
>>> problem. Go figure...[/color][/color][/color]
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>> Heh. Yeah. The new laptop uses a different ethernet adapter than your
>> old laptop, and you wouldn't think it would need a different driver?
>>
>> Of course it needs a different driver. Duh.[/color][/color]
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> Yes - but the sky2 driver that was installed with Kubuntu 7.10 worked fine
> with a directly wired connection at 100mbps, but *didn't* work with the
> HomePlug at 10mbps. To get the ethernet connector working with both I had
> to replace the driver with the sk98lin version.[/color]
That's a completely different thing than what you said originally, which
was that replacing a *laptop* required a different driver than the
previous laptop. What you just described clearly indicates an issue with
this "HomePlug" contraption, not with the sky2 ethernet driver.
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:21:57 +0100, Andrew Woodward wrote:
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>> What you just described clearly indicates an issue with this "HomePlug"
>> contraption, not with the sky2 ethernet driver.[/color][/color]
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> wrong[/color]
You don't know much about troubleshooting, do you?
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> You *assume* that you correctly interpreted what you read. You *assume*
> that I am an idiot.[/color]
Wrong. I *know* what I read. Before now I *was* assuming you were an
idiot, however I now know it *for sure*.
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> Since this contributes nothing to the original discussion .... *plonk*[/color]
Wow. Point out the correct answer, politely, and this stooge plonks you
for it. Real nice. LOL.
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