It’s too bad that powerline networking constitutes almost a kind of “secret knowledge”. Powerline networking saved us hundreds if not thousands in the installation costs that wiring the house with Ethernet cable would have run us, plus all the associated mess and disruption. I can attest to everything you said in that paragraph. ![]() I used a powerline Ethernet adapter to connect the computer to the network with an Ethernet cable. Each of our two TVs is attached to a computer – the TV is simply an external monitor for the computer. On the other hand, there is no problem with the powerline Ethernet. I may therefore go to separate wifi networks, each with its own name, rather than one unified network, so that I can choose which hotspot my phone uses. ![]() In one case, my phone is clearly hitting the main router, because it has a poor signal, even though I am just a few feet away from one of the remote units. There’s only one problem with a wifi mesh network – I can’t tell my phone which hotspot to use. It was a two part setup – I had to pair each remote unit with the base unit (for the powerline Ethernet part of it) and I had to clone each remote unit to the router (to make it part of the wifi mesh network). There was one thing that was interesting to me as I did the setup. I now have one wifi network name, one unified wifi network, for the entire house. After seeing an excellent video, I set it up as a wifi mesh network with no difficulty. It was very confusing to do any setup on the system, until I watched a few Youtube videos. ![]() I just purchased a TP-Link Powerline Ethernet kit on Ebay – a base unit and two remote units – for $27.50! Each remote unit is a wifi hotspot and has two Ethernet jacks on it.
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