WiFi verses Powerline

AMOS33 wrote:
Ok Bill.Satellite will try to explain what I am doing.

First, I live in a small rural RV Park with a 20 Mb/s DSL link that is broadcast throughout the Park over an Amped_Pro_AP directional antenna and we normally use Wifi extenders to connect. We all want fast downloads, right? So I began looking at Powerline technology and soon realized that this may be the way future connectivity will work.

My Routers is a Comtrend NexusLink 3112u. 1 ethernet port is connected to the AP600EX High Power Wireless-N 600mW Pro Access Point. This is housed on a separate leg.

So I wanted to pickup the signal from the closest point to the AP. I did this by installing a wifi extender connected by ethernet cable to a AV500 Nano powerline adapter on the 20Amp breaker located at Pole #40 that I had previously 'pared' to one in my RV located 200' away at Pole #33. Inside my RV I plugged in the 2nd AV500 Nano adapter and connected it to my PC using a ethernet cable and it worked.

My download speed went from <= to 3 Mb/s to 8+ Mb/s. Since it worked I asked the owner if I could test around the park and he gave me the go ahead. Of course this means that every RV between me and the start point could also do the same.

Now I realize that if ever RV were connected at gigabit speeds we'd soon drain the swamp. But that problem could be alleviated by adding additional DSL links or some other way.

These AV500 Nano adapters I am using have a max distance of 1000 feet and of course the speed downgrades with distance. For example my current connection shows 36 Mb/s to Pole 40. IF I can figure out how to post images, will do.

Some limitations I have noticed are:
1)Max no. of PL nodes using the cheap equipment I have are 16. which is ok because there are never more than 16 on each of the 6 legs in the Park.

Hope this is helpful and thanks for your interest.

So you have to have an adapter in each RV for this system to work, plus somehow connect from the park's wifi routers to the various 200 amp mains via ethernet cabling? Since ethernet is only rated for 300 feet you still would have to have a very small park, plus the park would have to have adapters for each RV to plug inside their rigs, then the guests would have to connect a router to that adapter. Not going to work for anything but long term stays as far as I can tell even if the park wanted to go through the trouble of installing the base system to the power mains. Way too complicated and way too many moving parts (adapters, routers etc. that guests do not have). People just want to turn on their devices and connect, not wire up a village every time.