Anyone have their entire house networked with Powerline?

Use Moca not powerline.

WiFi speeds of Gig will be common place before you know it...

No experience with multiple units, but I use it with some success on 60 year old wiring and over considerable distance. My modem and router are in my office in the house (with it's original wiring circa 1950) and I have a PC in my kids "clubhouse" that connects through a powerline adapter that's a couple of generations older than the ones you linked to. The power to the clubhouse comes from the panel in our barn that is in turn fed from the main panel in the house - about 150 feet total. I can stream DVD rips from my main HTPC to the clubhouse PC just fine, but high def videos (h.264 web content) stutters/stalls if I don't let it buffer first.

This is why Wireless-N came about. I have over 11 Wireless-G a/p's around me, and I have no problem with wireless-G and streaming, so really your statement is opinionated.

Huh, going to have to check into this one. Thanks for the info.

http://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-Ethe...9570414&sr=8-3

looks like it gets good user reviews

Just noticed powerline is up to 500 Mbps so whats the big advantage?

I just have one leg wired with a Netgear pair. Rest is gigabit. Obviously slower but has never hiccuped in over a year of service.

Yup, I have an old pair from a company that's out of business, sucks can't add more units to my house. They might not even be 85Mpbs but the reliability has been spot on, you never get the pauses that you get with wireless. I haven't tried streaming HD video over them but was using them for online gaming where low latency is king and they were a huge improvement over wireless. Speaking of Mpbs how much bandwidth do you need to stream HD video recorded by WMC?

As is yours, because you are lucky to not have interference.

Wireless-N, G, whatever, are not 100% reliable for HD streaming. If you don't believe me, ask erickotz (Ceton QA mgr) here why the upcoming Q DVR will not have wifi built-in, but instead will have MoCA support.

AGREE

but more normal people will just go wired before they try anything like your suggesting because they are not "geek" enough like we are.

I have 3 of the Trendnet 500 mb Powerline Units, and everything works great. 20 year old house. Main unit is in the office, where media server is stored. Satellite units serve living room home theater and master bedroom's Sage extender. I'm planning to add another unit in the guest room. Most of my media is in 720P MKV files, but even the few 1080P files play smooth as silk.

I've read about MOCA, and it would be interesting to try... but the house still has to be wired with coax, right? So what's the advantage over wiring with ethernet? I like the flexibility of the Powerline method. I moved the system from a temporary leased house to this purchased one and it was all just simple plug and play. No wiring needed. But I'm particular enough that if it didn't work as well as it does, I'd have it hard wired by now.

It was my understanding from that both Powerline Adapters and the newer MoCA stuff works but there were bandwidth limitations.

I also recall that the really NEW MoCA stuff is supposed to be faster and more reliable but wasn't cheap.

This was from Patrick Norton at TekZilla from the Rev3 Crew...a confirmed geek and tweaker. You may have sources you trust more. Pat, Robert and Veronica have always done right by me so I usually consider their opinions to be solid unless proven incorrect.

Do what I did: cut holes, fish wires, crawl in attic, install rack and switch and patch panel in garage, drink beer, and high-five all 'round.

No doubt cat 6 is best but can be a real hassel especially in a two story house

I have the same issue. I have powerline adapters, had issues with Moca. The powerline works pretty good depending on what outlets you use. I have the 200MB Netgear adapters and get around 140mbps connection speed. One of the HTPCs works better than the other (I have 4 adapters, 3 being used). To be frank, I have had better luck with a Linksys WET610N wireless gaming adapter. It connects easily to my Linksys router and does not drop signals. Could be that the powerline is experiencing too much interference?

I am working on getting the house wired with ethernet...much better solution in my opinion.

I'm able to do ~45 Mb/sec through a pair of Linksys Powerline adapters. I use them to stream from an ATSC HDHR onto my network switch making it easier to locate the HDHR near the antenna so that I didn't have to run Cat5 up 2 floors or coax down through the house. When I got them I checked the pair throughout my house on different plugs from close to each other to far away. It was pretty clear they have two limitations:

distance
crossing sides of the circuit box

I got speeds as high as 65 Mb/sec when both plugs were in the same room and as little as 8-10 Mb/sec from end-to-end distance in the house when circuits were across the sides of the breaker box. Since the total bandwith for all powerline units is fixed, I think using multiple units simultaneously would be quite limiting if you needed simultaneous HD streams. For my use the 45 Mb/sec I get at the locations I settled on easily handles the 2 HD channels of TV being streamed from the HDHR simultaneously. That demands ~35 Mb/sec max. The good thing about them is that those speeds are rock-steady. I have never seen a drop in speed due to noise or interference and never a problem recording off the HDHR due to network speed. Whatever speed you can get with them, you will likely always get. I wouldn't depend on them for a whole house solution though just for point-to-point applications where you need a guaranteed minimum speed.

Like you said performance is suppose to depend on the wiring in your house.

I can stream the HD WMC videos "wirelessly" to out 2 HP Notebooks at 54 mbps. You need about 17 mbps sustained. One at a time but not both. I could never get this to work with USB "WiFi dongles" on a desktop PC. Playing back the recordings from main WMC HTPC in our living room PC on the bedroom PC over PL Ethernet works great.

Had the Western Digital powerline kit and sold it. It does work but speeds varied, anywhere from 70-140mbps. I would say connection was more consistent than wireless N. Could do some blu-ray streaming but if attempted to do 1080p+hi-def audio, it could not keep up. Finally wired for Cat6 and glad I did.

I used to run two drops with powerline, my AV center and a laptop. Now, only the laptop uses it.

I get between 10-20 mbs using Netgear powerline components in my 20 year old house. Adequate for the laptop, but not for my AV needs. It generally worked OK for streaming Netflix content, as well as Mp3s from my home server. Netflix would stop and buffer about every three movies; sometimes multiple times during the same movie. It also choked on the home video and DVD movies stored on my server.

I recently moved the cable modem and router to my AV center and then ran 75' of CAT 6A from there to my home office. No problems now.

The "main trunk" for our network is a CAT 6 "patch cable" running down the hall from the computer room to the living room. It crosses a doorway under one of those rubber guides. Pretty tacky.
Yesterday I got a bunch of Keystone jacks, plates, punch down tool, etc. at Fry's. I first made a 100 ft. test cable as I was a little concerned about terminating GbE. I used CAT 6 solid cable. Tested by pulling a WMC 14 GB file from the living room PC to the computer room PC. Averaged 102 MBYTES /sec. I guess it's terminated correctly! I did watch a clip on Youtube showing how to punch down the cable. Pulling two runs through the attic this morning. Second is for just in case.
Unfortunately, updating the bedroom to wired would require a trip under the house. I'll stick with PL Ethernet for that leg for now.

With Powerline nobody can say for sure how it will work (unless the current homeowner tried). Too many variables involved with the house's wiring. Just make sure that wherever you buy the Powerline kit they will let you return it. I returned mine since it was less reliable than WiFi in my house.

My initial solution was to move my modem and router to my TV cabinet instead of my office. This was for Xbox/PS3 streaming and laptop WiFI connections. Then I decided to build a HTPC...

Since then I did what was mentioned above. I ran two drops of CAT cables in four areas to a closet and created a network hub with a 16 port GigB switch, WiFi N router, modem, Obi110 VoIP, and server.

If you don't think you can run cables in the new house then have another look. I ended up with cables where I initially thought I wouldn't be able to do it. Look for other cables and see if you can piggyback them. Maybe your coax isn't stapled down and you could use it to start a pull. If nothing seems to work then maybe buy a different house. Basically any option is better than counting on Powerline.

If there is no splitters involved. They degrade the signal. You really have to run a separate coax cable dedicated to this connection to get the maximum performance (assuming you don't have the coax cable pre-installed already).

Ditto this. My "leg" is on the same circuit. If you're on the other phase of the line or a different circuit all bets are off.

I set it up for people who aren't tech savvy....a lot of wifi routers seem to need periodic reboots or lose speed, connectivity, etc. Not all do, but some people (e.g., older folks, in-laws, etc.). It's just simpler to set up the powerline gear for them and is generally plug and play.
Also had a customer who I tried setting up a wifi router for...nice high end linksys...their laptops would lose connectivity once in a while and after the 10th call for "my wifi is down again" (which could have been their crappy Dell laptops because they were too cheap to get higher end ones), I gave up and just put in powerline adapters...not one call since.

The MoCa stuff doesn't make sense to me...the point of Powerline is you'll always be near a power outlet w/ any gear you have (except for tablets that are wireless), so it makes more sense to put them on the power circuit. If you're going to use coax, you might as run real cat6 and do full speed gigabit connections....

The point here is that most houses are already wired for coax, just like power, and for them MoCA is a superior alternative. No new wires needed, better throughput with less interference.

You've been lucky.