<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 12/10/2010, at 10:16 PM, Paul Brooks wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>
The G.HN gear is not out yet - probably another 12 months away - but
the 200Mbps Homeplug AV gear has been out there for quite a while
now.<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>First off, thanks for the well-presented information at AusNOG.</div><div><br></div><div>My personal experience with these units came from a 100-user VoD trial where the early Netcomm Ethernet-over-power solution was the easiest way to get IP to the Television.</div><div><br></div><div>They worked more often than they didn't, but these units were by no means a panacea. We could deliver a quality 5Mb/s stream to end users over ADSL2+ 90% of the time (this was 2005/6 - probably more crosstalk in neighbourhoods now), but the EoP solution had about a 60% hit rate.</div><br><div>Dense apartment blocks and old houses had the biggest issues, and as we were working with streaming video at the time it was difficult to accept any less than perfect. I would presume that the newer standard now has some better DSM-style smarts that can deal with some of the power cabling issues we encountered.</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div></body></html>