• sbv@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    It does. I lived in a place with aluminum wiring. The pigtailing defeated the adapters. The place I’m in now is all copper, but the connection can be flakey.

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      1 year ago

      My place has 7 or so circuit breakers from various additions over the years, and it looks like the adapters need to be on the same circuit, which makes sense, so I can’t really use them.

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        1 year ago

        Look into MoCa adapters. (Media Over Cable)

        These let you do the same thing as powerline, but with the Coaxial cable TV ports in your walls instead.

        If you really want to get fancy, pull out your old phone jacks and follow them through with CAT6 ( and new phone wire if you want to keep both). You don’t need to wire everything; buy some WiFi APs and keep the router in the basement, and run hardlines to your APs (an AP or Access Point is just the WiFi part of what you think of as the router, it doesn’t do any routing, it just goes from wired->wireless)

        • qupada@kbin.social
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          pull out your old phone jacks and follow them through with CAT6

          If you’re lucky, you may not even need this step.

          Buying 4-pair cable in Cat5e-or-better spec has been cheaper than 2-pair Cat3 “phone cable” for probably around 2 decades now, due to the vastly higher quantity of it being manufactured, so in plenty of newer houses the phone lines are wired with it.

          You could still get unlucky and find the jacks are daisy-chained, but having a central wiring panel where they all connect to became popular in a similar timeframe.

          Bit of a long shot, but in the best case scenario all you need to do is replace the jacks.

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        1 year ago

        If you could get a decent spread of the house via 1 meter you would be fine. I live in 3rd Story of an appartment in Germany, my cellar is on same meter but different breaker and I get maybe half the speed, but is unbelievable that it goes that far and it works for Youtube etc. Maybe see if you could try some out, send back under 30 days if they don’t work?

        When they do work they feel like magic.