We have a Sony BDP-S370 Blu Ray player downstairs in the living room that we have connected to our Router via an ethernet cable, which is great as it allows us to access BBC iPlayer, 5 on Demand, etc.

We'd like to move the Blu Ray player to the bedroom and still be able to access this content. What are our options?

Can we:-

(a) Continue to connect it with an Ethernet cable and if so, what is the maximum length of cable before any side effects (loss of signal, other?) would occur?
(b) Preferrably, connect it wirelessly - is this possible and if so, what would we need to be able to do this?

The unit can connect wirelessly but you need a specific Sony dongle. Check the manual

Ethernet works more or less perfectly up to 100 metres so unless your house is exceptionally big you are unlikely to run into problems.

For wireless look up Wireless Access Point or WiFi adapter, random example

http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-W...xp_grid_pt_2_1

If you have a WiFi laptop and that connects OK to your router from the same room then an adapter should also work.

If WiFi is a problem then an alternative to running a cable might be PowerLine adapters. These plug into the mains and use the mains wiring to carry the network signals. For example

http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-P...im_computers_2

Thanks for the replies.

If we're looking at the wireless (WiFi Adapter) option, does the WiFi adapter get placed in our bedroom next to the Blu Ray player, and the WiFi adapter then connects wirelessly with our router and then we just run an Ethernet from the WiFi adapter to the Blu Ray?

For the Powerline adapter solution, does it matter if the upstairs (bedroom) and downstairs (living room) run on different circuits? I'm not 100% sure if they even do, I just know we have trip switches on our fuse box for (a) upstairs power sockets and (b) downstairs power sockets.

Finally, for thePowerline adapter solution, how does the energy consumption of that compare with a WiFi adapter?

Pretty much that. Though there may be some configuration of the access point needed before hand. Which you do by plugging it into a computer.


It shouldn't matter. even though they are on different circuits the wires in the two ring mains are effectively joined together in the consumer unit (AKA fuse box) anyway. So there should be a path for the signals to get from end to end.


I wouldn't worry about that too much. Unless you really are worried about every last single penny you spend. The access point I linked to is about 8W and the PowerLine units 3W each (6W total). so not a lot in it.

The powerline adapters I use (d-link and tp-link) have power-saving built in, i.e. they go to 'sleep' when not in use.

As previously said as long as the circuits where they are used go back to the same consumer unit they will work.

Also if you have, or are considering getting, BT Infinity or similar, you might want to think about 500Mbps adapters rather than the 200Mbps type as these don't give full speed. If not then the 200Mbps ones are fine.

Powerline adapters are bad news. They cause interference to other radio users as the mains cables were never designed to be used this way.

The 500Mbps ones are the even worse in this respect and have been shown to blot out DAB and FM. The slower ones mainly affect short wave.

An ethernet cable is the best way to go (and the cheapest).

Winston1 is back on his lonely soapbox once again

For the n'th time a direct wired or WiFi connection is sometimes just not feasible. A tiny tiny percentage use short wave, a equally small percentage use 500Mbps homeplug adaptors. Considering the tiny percentage of a tiny minority that live close enough to cause problems why should one user have preference over another ?. Both are entirely legal.

It works the other way short wave transmission causes rfi to other users in close proximity as well to many not using homeplug adaptors (In rather more locations than any home plug users) .

Get a sense of perspective, there must be hundreds of thousands of these devices in use and a tiny tiny few reported problems. Yes you can probably find a few but in relation to the user base far far less than conflicts between devices sharing the rf spectrum.

Wireless routers, Cordless Phones and AV senders to name but a few. How is it you never post similar posts about these ? Some sort of misplaced personal crusade ?

Get one of these,

http://www.netgear.com/home/products...WN2000RPT.aspx

Mapplin and Argos both sell it.

I had a simpler problem when I wanted to connect my sky box to my router. I picked this option over the Power line adaptoers because of
This can handle upto 4 eathernet cables,
It can be fast, (when I was looking fast power line addapters were expensive).

It was nice and easy to set up via a web browser interface.