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pete taylor
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Has anyone had any positive experience of Wireless HDMI products like the ATEN VE809, I'm considering getting something, but I'm a little concerned with all the asterisks in the instructions regarding wall thickness etc.?
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have you got a 300 + wireless speeds ?
Never checked the speed of the wireless, but I do know that the internet connection to the Sky box that I want to connect to, is via Netgear homeplugs at 200Mbps max!
Not 'spammers' plural, only the usual one posting his normal incorrect information - who still has never admitted to his agenda on his unwarranted attacks of Homeplugs?.
Interesting he's now given up posting links to official sites (OFCOM and such), as they all proved him wrong (presumably he had never read them,? and hoped others wouldn't either), and instead posts to a suitably anti-Homeplug private site full of the misinformation he loves so much
I get no interference from my 200Mb home plugs because nothing else operates in that frequency range. so i doubt my neighbours do.
I've had two instances of first-hand experience with these damned things and they are real radio-killers.
A neighbour just along the road got a pair of these things for Christmas a few years ago. I only learned about it when I went into my radio room and started listening around as usual. To my horror, the HF bands above about 4MHz and all the way up to 50 MHz were badly affected. In some bands, the screeching noise was so strong that nothing else was audible. This went on for days until I tracked it down, luckily to a house where I know the chap and I invited him into my house to hear what his devices were doing to my hobby. He was horrified and stopped using them.
Second case is still ongoing, luckily they only plug them in when they wish to use them.
Ramming high levels of digital info along unscreened, unbalanced cables that were never intended for anything except 50Hz was always going to cause trouble.
It's a shame this thread has become so derailed as I too would really like to hear peoples opinions on these devices (HDMI video senders NOT homeplugs). I know early examples were intended only for use in the same room, which surely defeats the object as if it's in the same room one can easily run cable anyway.
But the devices do seem to have evolved with devices like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/390659464991?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:VRI&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2661 that actually look just like a modern video sender but finally with HDMI connectivity. They do attract a premium though, even on eBay that can fetch £70+ :eek: but would be really great to be able to watch my VM Tivo in a second location with no loss in quality...
So anyone actually used a HD videosender?
Well the same room thing is for people with say wall mounted tvs that have a plug on the wall but no easy way of running an hdmi.
the only thing i can say is i tried one a couple of years ago and it didn't work at any distance.
like what?
Like radio amateurs
As the official links that Winston has posted before confirm there have been only a tiny number of complaints, all (as far as the sites show) from radio amateurs.
It's a far cry from Winston's claims that it produces widespread interference to all your neighbours.
Ahh my neighbours don't use ham radio because it's 2013 and they have the internet instead.
Ouch!!
it can not be that amateur radio can expect to have that bandwidth forever. it is a finite resource and has to be portioned where it will be of the most use.
Perhaps you noticed he's a radio amateur?, so one of the small number of such who have suffered interference.
Perhaps you also might have noticed (but presumably completely ignored as usual) that none of your other supposed 'sufferers' are listed as suffering from any such problems.
That people are not reporting interference is consistent with there being interference. As would be them reporting interference.
You could use that logic to rationalize anything. Aliens maybe.
As it stands we have no real way of knowing for sure. But we know the authorities would rather stick their finger in their ears than listen to what concerns are being expressed and to gather evidence one way or another.