Most old buildings and houses are not network ready. When you call you nearest ADSL or Broadband internet provider they usually just tell you that their responsibility only lies on one PC where their modem is connected to and it's up to you to do your own home networking if you want to share your internet connection with other areas of your home.
It means that you will have to decide whether to go wifi or wired. Now if you do wifi, there is a chance that certain areas of your house or small office will not get any signal so you have to locate your wifi in a certain area of your house where it can easily be accessed anywhere, which will require you to hire an electrician or a network team to put a networking cable running from your router all the way up to the center of house to get coverage everywhere. Now, you have to decide whether to let the cable go within the ceiling and some walls, which entail some renovation costs because they have to open your walls up and seal them again after.
Now if you chose to go wired, it actually the same process as above multiplied by the number of workstations you want to connect. MEANING, more it’s even more expensive.
Well, I found this great product, the FU Powerline Products.
What it does is convert your entire electrical system into your Home network.
What that means is all your ELECTRICAL outlets now become network sources. Just plug an FU Powerline bridge at the end and you are ready. You now have internet connection everywhere.
FU also has a Powerline WIFI Access point, meaning just plug this to any outlet you have at home and that place then become wifi ready. Imagine the convenience.
FU also has a Powerline ROUTER for those of you who don’t have one yet, this router acts as your powerline bridge at the same time it provides you 3 Lan (RJ45) Ports at the back.
FU Powerline gives you 200MBPS throughput for a paired connection. You can place up to 64 slaved connections but the throughput is also divided by the number of stations connected simultaneously, just like WIFI networks.
Prices:
FU Powerline Brdige (Single) - P2,900 Website
FU Powerline Bridge (Double) - P5,600Website
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FU Powerline Wireless Access Point - P4,850 Website
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FU Powerline Router P4,500 Website
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How it Works.
FU Powerline BRIDGE (Assuming you already have your own existing Router)
One Bridge acts as the Master. It connects to your router via Network cable and plugs in to your electrical system. You only need one master and you can plug as many Slaves as you want. As not to confuse you, the master and slave bridges are the same piece of hardware. You may also plug a FU Powerline access point which also just acts as a slave bridge.
FU Powerline Router (Assuming you don't have an existing router yet)
The FU Powerline router acts like a normal router except that its plug to the wall giving it power is also a Powerline Bridge.
FU Powerline Access Point
The Wifi access point acts as a slave bridge to both the FU Powerline Bridge and the FU Powerline Router.
The FU Powerline System is designed for small Home and small to medium businesses. They do not work in structures with 3 Phase Electrical systems. Don't worry, unless your house is fitted with an elevator or some heavy factory type machines, you are most likely connected to a regular electrical system.
Some people may ask, will my neighbor be able to get my signal if he has a powerline bridge? Well, the signal is terminated when it reaches the transformer. So unless you’re living or working in a place that has as sub-metered electrical system then you will not have this problem. If you have this issue though, there is a software to manage and secure these connections.
I live in a 3 home compound. I could get a signal from all of my outlets. From the Garage, Dirty Kitchen to my Ground floor guestrooms bathroom all the way up to our master bedroom's bathroom :-D No problems at all, even my electrical system has separate lines running up and down with different circuit breakers. When I plugged it in to my father in law's house which is just a few meters away from my house, signal was dead. We are plugged in to one main transformer from VECO (our local electrical company) and have 3 separate meters as well.
Who’s it for?
1.) For homes that are not network ready yet you want to share your internet connection to different areas in the house.
2.) For people creating a MEDIA Network. Media appliances are very abundant nowadays. You would want to create a MEDIA server to house all your videos, photos, music one place and share them to the rest of the house through your network. We have tested this for Video streaming a 1080P Resolution video file through Honeywilds network ready HD player and it works perfectly! Will post a review on that very soon!
3.) For offices just beginning or expanding.
4.) For people who want to be free of clutter and don’t want to spend the extra cost of renovation or rewiring.
All I can say is, this product is revolutionary. Its ease of use is amazing. Plug and Play, no configurations needed for the bridges. For the wifi, it's like any other wifi access point or wifi router setups.
Do not be fooled with the price tag. Do some computations and you will see that you will actually be spending more if you when you include the Labor charges for Cabling, the Roughing-in/Renovation Charges just to hide the cables.
Thank you fineupgardes for the test unit you sent us :-D !!!
For more information please visit them at www.fineupgrades.com
1 comment:
Pretty neat, i wish i knew about this 3 weeks ago when i was setting up my home network in Mabolo, would've been useful when connecting my 360 to the network as the 360 Wireless Adapter is painfully overpriced.
Currently I'm using a CDRking Wireless AP as a client to catch the router's signal and pass it on to the 360. It's a kludgy way of doing it but I didn't know any better :).
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