My house is wired upstairs/downstairs seperately, and I want to run power line adaptors would this work? I'm guessing not?
same fuse box? If so works in my house
What do you mean by separately?
Your mains unit will slow down most powerline adaptors. Not really slow down but seriously affect them. So yes, if you need to go into the fuse box and then back out it's highly likely it won't work very well.
Every house is unique though.
Make up an extension lead with a 13amp plug at each end and plug one in upstairs and one downstairs
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Borrow some from a friend to try out first would be my suggestion.
When I say seperately,the upstairs and downstairs each have their own rcd,so they are on desperate circuits
Aye, if you can borrow and try then do that. If not, then how about wireless extenders?
Works fine with mine split load consumer unit seperate rcds.
I got these
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005IVLCJO/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I use the 200mb versions of pingu's
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We had 'comedy' wiring in our old place - think cooker switch coming off of a light switch - and they worked fine. Borrow some if you can to be safe but you should be fine for normal stuff.
I used to run them across two different RCD units which I think both came off the same phase supply, don't live there now so cannot check.
I used to run powerlines in my house and they were more than adequate for streaming HD content from my NAS upstairs to the Pi in the living room. Even across the RCD.
Worked great in my last house but I could never get them to work properly in the new place. Very much a suck and see approach as to the untrained eye there looks to be little difference between how the two places are wired up.
I eventually bit the bullet and ran some Cat6 around the house and installed a router... well worth the effort.
For Powerline to work, both the unit plugged in near the router and the additional unit in the room where you want coverage, need to be on the same ring main. It shouldnt matter if upstairs and downstairs go through the same consumer unit - just ensure they are on the same ring main (i'm no sparky so dont know how you can tell that).
I would go for the NETGEAR XAVNB2001 - not only will it provide you an additional ethernet port upstairs, but it will also extend the range of your wi-fi, eleminating dead spots.
Every circuit in the house comes back to the same feed, so there will be minimal electrical resistance between everything in the house. The Power Line boxes rely mainly on conduction rather than RF coupling, so I don't see why it wouldn't work. There's nothing in a domestic consumer unit in the way of an RF filter which would attenuate the signal.