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:

> 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

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:

>> I appreciate manufacturers like to exaggerate speed potential with their
>> products but are homeplugs more reliable (speedwise) than wifi systems.

> I have not used a wifi network, but I have found my HomePlugs (Solwise
> PL-14PE) to be very reliable.

That's reassuring, my wifi is fine but I need to take advantage of
network booting requiring an ethernet connection.

> only problem I have had has been a driver issue with my new laptop running
> Kubuntu 7.10.

That's surprising, I thought to the computer it was an ethernet connector.

Geoff Lane

Geoff Lane wrote:

>
>> only problem I have had has been a driver issue with my new laptop
>> running Kubuntu 7.10.
>
> That's surprising, I thought to the computer it was an ethernet connector.

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...

>
> Geoff Lane

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:48:10 +0100, Andrew Woodward wrote:

>>> only problem I have had has been a driver issue with my new laptop
>>> running Kubuntu 7.10.

>> That's surprising, I thought to the computer it was an ethernet
>> connector.

It is. Still needs a driver to access it.

> 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...

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:

> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:48:10 +0100, Andrew Woodward wrote:
>
>> 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...
>
> 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.
>
>
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:

>>> 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...

>> 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.

> 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.

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:

>> What you just described clearly indicates an issue with this "HomePlug"
>> contraption, not with the sky2 ethernet driver.

> wrong

You don't know much about troubleshooting, do you?

> You *assume* that you correctly interpreted what you read. You *assume*
> that I am an idiot.

Wrong. I *know* what I read. Before now I *was* assuming you were an
idiot, however I now know it *for sure*.

> Since this contributes nothing to the original discussion .... *plonk*

Wow. Point out the correct answer, politely, and this stooge plonks you
for it. Real nice. LOL.


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