Homeplug AV2 with longer distances over 400'

[coxhaus]

Did you purchase your solar system through a power company? I looked a few years ago and it was like $16000 with a $3000 tax write off buying it yourself. If you were business then it was complete write off.

I also was wondered how good of sinewave you would end up with. Is it hard on your electronics? With a lot of generators and invertors you end with a kind of square wave not necessarily good.

My other understanding is the power company pays you at wholesale rates and you have to pay at retail. Maybe this has all changed now.

 

[Trip]

Nice update @tyab. A few comments on some ancillary items:

The HP printers (and most printers in general) are anywhere from mediocre to an abomination when it comes to maintaining connectivity via onboard wifi. It's my standard operating procedure to either hard-wire directly, or otherwise hard-wire to a much more solid wifi client bridge, which makes the printer think it's hard-wired, while handling the actual wireless link itself. I use stuff like Mikrotik hAP's and similar. Super effective swiss-army-knives that I bring with me pretty much everywhere, to fix "shirtty printer syndrome" on-the-fly, as needed.

Re- powerline standards that are still "alive", AFAIK the only one under continued development is G.hn ("Wave 2" class devices coming out from Comtrend, Zyxel and maybe a few others). There are a few reviews out comparing the latest of those against the last-gen AV2 stuff, and although the G.hn tech is supposed to be better at dealing with interference and/or distance, it appears that ping/jitter is not as consistent, so at best you might be robbing Peter to save Paul, as they say. One nice item they have managed to accomplish is built-in PoE (example: Comtrend's PG-9172PoE and 9182PoE); very nice for many use-cases. Overall, though, none of the above makes the standard much, if any, more reliable overall, so probably not worth a whole-sale change, especially since you're barely utilizing the adapters as it is.

Well done on the wifi link; Ubiquiti gear is very nice, especially AirMax and AirOS.

 

[tyab]

Final update. I sold the CA home a few years ago - that Ubiquiti PtP link is still working perfectly (according to the new owners whom I say in touch with) - they have never rebooted (except from power outages) nor have they done any firmware upgrades - they just work keeping the Enphase unit reporting the status of those 80 micro-inverters. The 4 power link adapters are in a box with other abandoned/aged network cables and stuff - I see no need or use for them ever at this point. For the new location I did a full Ubiquity rack setup DMP/switchpro and DVR/cameras and its 5 AP's give crazy good WiFi everywhere. WiFi mesh tech is just getting better and better and the small niche filled by those powerlink's has simply vanished. I'll do a writeup in the WiFi section about the ubi network that has been running flawlessly for over 3 years now.

One final note. About six months before I sold the home, I was the first Starlink beta in my area (at that time). Mounted it up on the top of the 2nd story roof - giving it completely unobstructed views and from day one it was simply amazing even back in early beta. Location was a very rural area, best DSL I in that area at the time was bonded DSL giving me at most 18 download and 2 up (12,000ft from tel-co distribution box runs will do that). Starlink at the time was a solid 100+ down and usually about 20 up. New owner is still using that setup - we transferred ownership shortly after sale when Starlink finally enabled that service. If I ever find myself in a rural setup again, that will be my to-go setup. In a city now so gig is the norm.