Homeplug - Networks

[xoggoth]

THose Solwise things look good. My wifi is very limited range, think it's the big metal central heating duct close to the router.

[Pondlife]

I bought the D-Link starter pack a few months back and have had no probs so far.

They don't seem to be running hot.

[Sysman]

Run hot? Just felt my Netgear one by my PC, and it's luke warm at most. And that's been on permanently for several years.

As I discovered last week, excessive heat can be due to a busy box. I had had my laptop plugged into the network at work, and when I got home forgot to change the DNS entries back, with the result that the laptop fans were going full blast even when I wasn't doing anything.

Which reminds me that a mate was complaining that his wifi router was running extremely hot, and I fixed that by securing it; he lives in a block of flats and others were using it as a free ride.

Maybe the reports of homeplug devices running hot are due to excessive error correction / line noise.