Depends on the plate, there's two sizes. 68mm, which looks amusingly small (and is usually surface mounted), and 85mm, which is the same as a normal socket.
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Depends on the plate, there's two sizes. 68mm, which looks amusingly small (and is usually surface mounted), and 85mm, which is the same as a normal socket.
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The 2-module plate is the same size as a UK light switch or 13A 3-pin socket plate.
http://www.satcure.co.uk/accs/page15b.htm
http://www.satcure.co.uk/accs/page15b.htm
Thanks. Still a bit confused. I can't find a 68mm or a 85mm plate anywhere on that site. In fact none of the plates give dimensions. When I get back home, I'll post a list of what I think I need, if you or anyone would be good enough to check if my understanding is correct. Thanks for the help.
If it's smaller than a single socket or light switch, it's 68mm (unless it's _really_ tiny). If it's the same size, it's 85mm. Simple as that.
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No, you want a phone socket module and a network socket module - otherwise you'll just have a phone socket !
Depends on the phone socket. Some phone sockets are the same size as standard electrical accessories, some are considerably smaller.
Also, if you are bothered, pretty well all accessory manufacturers do "euromod" faceplates (either "single" or "double" in their accessory ranges. Doing it that way, you get your phone and network sockets to match all the power sockets and light switches.
A "single" plate has a 50x50mm hole, a "double" has a 100x50mm hole and takes twice the width of modules. As you can get all sorts of modules, it's a handy way of doing "custom" sockets - eg phone, network, and a couple of coax in one faceplate the same size and style as the double socket it's next to.
Thanks. You're right of course. Don't know what I was thinking there. So if I have mk sockets in the house already, I could find suitable plates in their range and perhaps have to buy the telephone and rj45 modules from somewhere ekse. Or do mk make all? Must have a search for that now. Update - I've found them.
Ps have now discovered ethernet switches.
Cheers.
Ps have now discovered ethernet switches.
Cheers.
Whilst I understand the need to be green-aware and watch power consumption figures, I think stressing over the running costs of Homeplugs and an Ethernet switch is going OTT.
A pair of Homeplugs consume about 4.5W. A 5 port Gigabit switch eats about 8W. Together they'll cost approx £1.75 per month to run. If that's going to break the bank then you'd better not look at the cost of running a laptop for a month.
Ethernet cable does have significant advantages (security, speed, no wireless interference emissions). It is also possible to run 2 or 3 lines down from the Router's Ethernet ports to a single point to avoid using a switch in the destination room. But on this point I think that that's a miserly solution. Just buy a switch for the destination end. Chances are, as soon as you have Ethernet available at a location you'll find more than two devices to connect to it anyway.
A pair of Homeplugs consume about 4.5W. A 5 port Gigabit switch eats about 8W. Together they'll cost approx £1.75 per month to run. If that's going to break the bank then you'd better not look at the cost of running a laptop for a month.
Ethernet cable does have significant advantages (security, speed, no wireless interference emissions). It is also possible to run 2 or 3 lines down from the Router's Ethernet ports to a single point to avoid using a switch in the destination room. But on this point I think that that's a miserly solution. Just buy a switch for the destination end. Chances are, as soon as you have Ethernet available at a location you'll find more than two devices to connect to it anyway.
And you think Homeplugs don't? I dare say they'd use more power than a decent switch, not less.
Uses no extra electricity compared to the switching hardware required to provide the number of ports connected. As opposed to a Homeplug, which does more processing and requires multiple devices to cover multiple rooms.
I've found that most manufacturers carry a selection of modules in their range - but only a subset of what people might want and usually quite expensive. Other manufacturers do a wide range of modules - eg Triax.
As long as they are "Euromod" or "Euro Module" then you should be able to mix-n-match.
EDIT: As for powerline vs cable - cable every time. Powerline with, in theory and under ideal conditions, reach an absolute max of 500Mbps throughput - and that's a total figure across all traffic flows because it's a shared medium. In practice you will never ever see that in a real installation.
With an ethernet cable, you can have gigabit (1000Mbps) - and that's across each link in each direction if the flows allow for it. OK, in many home networks it's not that critical (eg if all you are doing is sharing an 80Mbps FTTC connection), but I can tell you it makes a difference for quite a few tasks (accessing video files off a NAS for example).
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