GefenTV Ethernet over Powerline Extender does what it says

Pretty easy, right? Gefen's new $199 GefenTV Ethernet over PLC Extender takes regular ole Ethernet and passes information through your home's pre-installed power lines in order to nix those plans of running 200-foot strands of CAT5 down the middle of your foyer. The device enables up to four Ethernet connections to be extended over power lines, and everything can be sent without quality loss (and at up to 200Mbps) as long as the sender is within 1,000-feet of the receiver. Put down the Ethernet spool, and slowly back away.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 13th 2008 12:03PM]

I didn't have any luck streaming HD with any 200Mbps power line extenders if you got further away than the adjacent room. Some areas even had problems streaming 480p.

If you have a single story (or crawlspace), running the cable will perform much better.

I tried 3 different brands with no different results.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 13th 2008 11:38PM]

Well, the fact that they state performance as "up to 200mbs" says it all. It's not guaranteed and will fall back to slower speeds based on line quality, wire distance, etc.

[S4Rs Posted Dec 13th 2008 1:16PM]

I hear that surge protectors/power conditioners really screw these up so keep them away from both ends of these things

[IseWise Posted Dec 13th 2008 5:31PM]

I was just about to ask a question about the quality of these devices. Sounds like they aren't too great though.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 13th 2008 9:02PM]

I've got a pair of netgear one's and they seem to work fine, haven't done any bandwidth tests on them but i can get 4 or 5 people playing an mmorpg on the other side of them and it works just fine.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 14th 2008 1:26AM]

I've got ZyXEL's powerline offering with included switch and am getting throughput of ~60-80Mbps.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 14th 2008 7:40AM]

Who cars about sending compressed video over household power if you STILL have to have a box at the display to UNCOMPRESS it?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 15th 2008 8:24PM]

Yes. but you may playback with your PS3.
(leave movie file in your PC or DLNA server, playback with PS3 via HomePlug AV)

Or, buy a small PC (like ASUS eee Box) as your HTPC.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 15th 2008 8:18PM]

Too expansive.

I just buy a pair of Homeplug AV 200Mbit device:

ZyXEL PLA400 - with 4 port hub.
ZyXEL NBG-318S - with 4 port hub + Wifi AP.

Total price is US$129. It's work very well.