I hate those hypocritical don try this at home notices that then show an awful bunch of cool stuff that you really wnat to do at home. So do this at home carefully, but if you are not confident invite a friend or your mother or anybody who is, for a coffee to help you out. We dont hack anything on the 220V side of the circuit, on the worst case scenario we just isolate the signal from the 220V. This is a very easy hack but you have to be somewhat confident around electronics and really careful around the 220V. So my idea and this instructable, is how to hack a cheap 30-40 euro pair of Homeplug devices to deliver ethernet over the telephone line WITHOUT the 220V.Īs I was searching for pictures on the net from different powerplug boards I found those people on openROV who actually did it too! So many kudos go over to the openROV people and they have lots of pictures of different boards. Its kind of not cool, if not outright dangerous. Telephone cables regularly have at least 50V on them, but I wouldnt like to shock the unsuspecting technician who will wonder around the switchboard box of your building. Yes homeplug protocol can work through telephone lines, but actually I have found only this one and even though inspiring, I didnt feel comfortable of feeding 110V on my telephone cables. Well only one part of the equation is true here. And somebody somewhere would have done it. So I thought if the Homeplug goes through noisy power lines, it should be a piece of cake going through telephone cables. The problem is there is no ready made solution for telephone cables thats affordable (yep no point in being a rich hacker). But my telephone cables are the old type, not twisted not anything because the building is old. I have succeded to reach 20-30 meters with old CAT3 cable. If you are lucky enough so that the telephone cables are twisted CAT3 or CAT5 then you can transfer internet directly (you need 2 pairs). So I thought there are those other cables that go around the apartments. It worked but the speeds where slow and the noise from the cables interrupted the connection every few hours. And for our purpose (transfering network through different apartments) it was nearly impossible due to the circuit breakers. The problem is power cables are very noisy, specially if your fridge or other motors work, and to be truthful we didnt like the idea that we wont have a connection every time I put the washing machine. This is essentially a very nice solution of transferring ethernet through power cables (110V - 220V). So we tried this other solution called Homeplug or Ethernet over Power. I live in an apartment house and even though I have 4-5 ethernet cables going around, I cant really reach my neighbour and share my network with her. I have to admit laying ethernet cables is the best way to transfer ethernet. Poor reception, noise signals from all over the neibhourhood, highly variable throughput that has to do with sitting this or that way on the couch. But as wifi is implemented for more than a decade, people have discovered that it has its own problems. So shouldnt be other ways around to transfer internet, apart from laying ethernet cables? Hey buster we have internet over telephone lines and its called ADSL (or VDSL).īut have you ever considered how much a VDSLam costs? Totally out of the hobby budget.
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