[plug] home cat5 issues

[Matt Kemner]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, quoth Brad Campbell:

> Craig Foster wrote:
>
> > *cough*Ethernet Over Power*cough*
>
> Good thinking 99! If all your power points are on the same phase you are rocking. I've been eyeing
> these devices for about 3 years now but never found a valid reason to buy a couple.

Just don't try to run VoIP over them.

I don't know what brand they were using, and if there are better
performing models, but I had a customer trying to use their (Cisco) phones
over these, and the introduced latency (and worse - jitter) was causing
the phone calls to break up so badly, they ended up having to recable the
place with cat5 anyway.

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