njkmrs

Guys,
I am trying to get internet into a summer house and need to know if these are what I want if you can help please.

Summer house is powered with electric from the same consumer unit that powers the house .The unit is in the garage and an armoured cable is run about 50 meters to the summer house on its own breaker from the consumer unit.

My router is in the house on the landing.
If I buy the tp link and plug the router into the tp link plug then plug the other tp link into a socket in the summer house will it work.
I did ask on the tp link site and they said it both the house and summer house needed to be on the same power circuit?
They are both connected to the consumer unit but I don't know if this makes them both on the same power circuit or not.?
Please advise if you can.
Thank You

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

old powerline units used to have this requirement but I believe the newer ones (not sure on TP Link) can bypass this and still work across differing ring mains.

Galifrey

iTrader: (3)

If they are on the same consumer unit they should work fine, upstairs and downstairs ring mains are usually separate but on the same consumer unit.

njkmrs

Thanks Guys,
Appreciated.
Regards

matt-c

iTrader: (5)

As above, you should be fine, I'm using TP Link "1200mbps" units and they are great for the price.

njkmrs

Yep they seem cheap enough at between £20-£70 pounds.
How much was yours/make/model and where did you get it please?

andy97

iTrader: (1)

I have used a tp link through 2 consumer units, 1 in my house the other in the garage. I then run a Ethernet cable 80 metres upto our summer house. I tested the speed and there was no real drop off in speed either at the tp link points or summer house compared to standing next to router on wifi

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

TP link do have a good reputation for their performance/price (I have several TP link switches in the house handling the wired LAN - they do what they say on the tin )

Generally with powerline units, tests/reviews for these unit's often show their performance is based on their distance apart in terms of the length of cabling rather than the ring/consumer unit layout. So the further away each unit is, the slower the transfer speed, go far enough and like wifi you lose signal entirely.

So sadly its a case of buy and try it, just buy it from somewhere with a good returns policy and keep the packaging in good nick just in case its not up to the job.

Alternatives are running a cable (obviously) and a Point to Point wifi which is like normal wifi, but uses narrow-beam directional aerials so the signals can travel much greater distances (which can be up to miles).

njkmrs

Thanks for the advice guys.
Will buy from Maplins or PC World so I can return if they don't do the job.
Ta.

njkmrs

Well unfortunately it did not work..
The wife took it back and was advised that the Devolo one they had at £109 will though.
She brought that home and it seems to have done the trick.
Internet now on in the shed.
Job done.
I really did not want to have to run a cable up to it although in hindsight when I buried the armoured cable for the power supply I should have done it then, but hey ho...