Anyone use these?

Tallas · Post by **Tallas** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:30 am

http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustRatin ... 6833122063
Today I'm getting something extremely similar and I'm wondering if this setup will work: Go directly from a dsl modem (intelligent turned into a simple bridge via settings) to one of these devices then in another room go from one of these devices to a typical 4port dsl/cable router. Then using CAT5 to go from the router to multiple computers.

I'll find out when I get home if it works, but kinda bored right now and just thinking ahead.

Kula · Post by **Kula** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:47 am

Well normally I would not design something puttling multiple computers through a half duplex pipe......but it will work.

Tallas · Post by **Tallas** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:58 am

I thought the exact same thing, but I read all the reviews and people say they've still got more bandwidth than they do internet speeds. They also say they're getting normal ping times for games and such. I figure if it really did make game playing bad, someone would have said something. I just got back from buying some. The ones I got have a max bandwidth of 85Mb/sec. After talking with a guy who has the same ones, I found out he runs his through a surge protector and still gets 55Mb/sec. and they're dual voltage, so I can bring them with me when I get back to the states.

Guess I'll update when I plug them in when I get home.

Kula · Post by **Kula** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:27 am

It won't make game play bad......let's face it not a hell of a lot of data gets sent by most games. When you will see it is if one computer is doing some massive data download (movie, music, etc.) and then you want to do something on the other three.

Tallas · Post by **Tallas** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:00 am

Fortunately its just my wife and me. Plus, if I'm getting bad pings because of something she's downloading I can just unplug her port

UltraBurz · Post by **UltraBurz** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:03 am

Tallas wrote:Fortunately its just my wife and me. Plus, if I'm getting bad pings because of the porno she's downloading I can just unplug her port

Fixed for ya.

Post by **Ddrak** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:48 pm

Half duplex isn't a huge deal. Worst case you'll just get a lot of collisions but typically the switch you plug the machines into will only send data on the half duplex port if it's supposed to go there.

In the case you describe, only internet bound data will go via the half duplex link so it really should never bottleneck.

Dd

Tallas · Post by **Tallas** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:58 am

So I've had these things up and running now for a couple days and they're working great. Soon I'm planning on hosting a lan party and thinking about using these to connect two of the cheap multiport routers so we won't have to have a huge cat5 cable running the length of the house. Any idea how the performance would be for 6+ people playing FPS and RTS games using the above setup?

Nikore · Post by **Nikore** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:36 am

Due to the bandwith requirments on thoughs games and how many packets at once normal wireless tech can take I dont think these will do very well for a LAN party type thing. Then again, they might...when I play wow on my laptop (wireless) my ping is much higher and I get a lot more packet loss then on my desktop (non-wireless) and thats just me useing it. But since your feeding a swich in too this to transmit all the packets from that swich insead of haveing all the computers connect wirelessly it might work out ok. Still I wouldn't trust it as a network admin.

Post by **Ddrak** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:25 am

Well, it's rated at 14Mbit which will probably be ok even at half duplex (most games don't take anywhere near that and are more latency bound than bandwidth bound). As a backup though, I'd have a long-ass length of cat5 on hand...

Dd

Tallas · Post by **Tallas** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 9:38 am

I ended up paying 50 euro more for 85Mb/sec ones. But yes, I will definitely have a huge cat5 cable for backup