Posts by P Stevens

Belkin Powerline HD Gigabit mains Ethernet adaptor

Only solution, or just the easiest?

Well a better, cheaper solution to the above, uncommon problem than being the cause of a wide range of radio interference just for the sake of convenience, would be a phone socket in the office with the router plugged into that. Don't you have a phone in your office already though? If it's cordless, presumably the base unit is plugged into the phone socket downstairs too, in which case, your phone is working on the frequencies used by wifi, suggesting wifi will work fine. If it isn't cordless, then you have a socket with ADSL on it right in your office anyway.

The only arguments ever put forward for using these things rather than all the other, better solutions to home networking seem to be based on "won't". It's never "can't". Can't be arsed, maybe. Not a good enough position to be arguing for allowing widespread interference to radio devices over a massive 250mhz bandwidth. At the end of the ongoing legal tussles surrounding PLT, alternatives will probably have to be found anyway, so best find some other way in the first place and save time and money in the long run.

Tony Smith

Pinch of salt or not Tony, these devices radiate crud from a radio frequency range of between 50-300 MHz, used by the Ministry of defence, broadcast FM (at present) , navigation and air band, wx sat , Pagers, Marine DAB, and once again three of the poor old radio amateur's bands are hit. If your household wiring is able to contain the racket these damn things throw into the ether, then lucky you. I know of quite a few victims of them who haven't been so lucky. Most people's household wiring is anything but balanced, and these things will radiate a godawful noise all over all those frequencies with gay abandon, over a surprisingly wide area, just like the lower-speed models have been proven to do time and again.

I'm noy buying into a technology that craps all over any radio users unlucky enough to be in range of them. It's un-neighbour friendly, arrogant, selfish and irresponsible to even think of using them. As for the people marketing them and those who are supposed to prevent illegal devices like these getting to market, the less said the better.

Oh God

Another product filling a gap that didn't exist and spewing interference all over the radio spectrum to do it. The devices in the frequency range these transmitters, for that's what they are, are hogging and stamping all over, are everything from cordless phones and baby alarms to emergency services. 8011/n will do a much better job within its own frequency range rather than someone else's, and won't stop your neighbour listening to the Archers on FM. Will these people never learn? Is the fast buck really more important than the future of radio broadcast and communication? Come on Ofcom. Act like an enforcer for once. Get them off the market.

Solwise Piggy 6 multi-device powerline network adaptor

Correction

>>A lot of people use computers with PCs too<<

Should of course read "A lot of people use computers with their radio equipment too".

PLTs, no thanks.

Cat 5 can be an arse, eh? Awww. Thgere's an old guy up the road from me, who had an arse of a job to save on his pension for a decent comms receiver, after having an arse of a job working all his life. The radio had been his hobby for 40 years, and he had an arse of a job building a nice antenna system so that he could enjoy his harmless hobby.

Then, someone innocently bought a power line ethernet adapter. Someone 300 metres away, and from the moment they plugged the accursed thing in, his hobby was ruined. He's blind, so he can't just watch telly. But don't worry about other people's rights. You just go ahead and support this crappy technology, it'll be banned once it's properly retested anyway, and there's a whole lot of people out there who aren't going to stop complaining until it is. You mean to say you can't run a cable between two points? Really? How did the phone line get into your home? Got a TV aerial? A satellite dish?

The law is simple enough: any new product must not cause harmful interference. These do, and they will until they're all recalled. They do not, and cannot comply with EMC regs. That's why BT have to remove them when Ofcom find them.

Any new technology worth its salt doesn't destroy an existing, proven technology for a fast buck or convenience. A lot of people use computers with PCs too. How's that going to work? What about the manufacturers and suppliers of the radio gear hobbyists use? Isn't this a threat to their markets? Of course it is. They were there first. PLTs, get lost. You're not welcome.