Homeplugs (ethernet over power) are fine for some things, but they add so much latency to the network.

Wired is so much better.

  • espurr@sopuli.xyz
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    7 days ago

    You can send stuff through the home power sockets? WTF first time I heard this sounds like magic

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      It’s old magic too and in a pinch it works reasonably well.

      We use this as a networking option for an old dorm I was in which didn’t have ethernet and the concrete walls between rooms made Wi-Fi unusable.

      Blocks of rooms were not separated on different circuits which made this possible