Best Powerline/Homeplug Adapters?

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I have TP-Link PA211 kit which connects at approx 50 to 60mbit, there are supposed to be 200mbit homeplugs but I realise you will rarely get quoted speed from these.

What is the best homeplug without needing to pay silly amounts of money to get a connection speed over 100mbit? Will I need the 500mbit homeplugs that now exist?
 
AV200 adapters are not capable of better than 100mbit speeds (in a single direction). For a start every AV200 adapter I’ve seen has been equipped with 100mbit Ethernet rather than Gigabit.

You may have better luck with AV500 adapters, but 100mbit+ would be very optimistic unless the mains is very clean (from a noise point-of-view) and the distance is relatively short.

If you need 100mbit+ the only guaranteed solution is a cabled connection.
 
I get decent speeds using AV500 (Netgear Nanos), but that's on a very clean wiring (recent major rewire).

Right now on speedtest it's getting 96mbit on Virgin Media 100mbit.
 
Solwise 500mb probably the ones I'd recommend. Pretty much the same as the Netgear ones. I've got the Netgear ones at home and at work the Solwise ones, both work fine.

I get 100mb using mine, not in every location in my house but most of them!
 
Devolo are the ones I use. Recommended them by a few people on here and in work. Got the AVPlus 500MB ones and, in a house with old wiring, I get a connection of 468 MB between them.



M.
 
Gonna feel like a **** asking this question, but as I've never used these devices before :)
I'm assuming these need to be plugged directly into a wall socket and cannot run from say 4-way or 6-way extensions?
 
They can run on 4/6 gang extensions but its not recommended as it can cause noise distortion (possible choppy connection)
Plug them directly into the wall whenever possible.
 
stoofa said:
Gonna feel like a **** asking this question, but as I've never used these devices before :)
I'm assuming these need to be plugged directly into a wall socket and cannot run from say 4-way or 6-way extensions?
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Extensions will impact on the speed you receive & from experience - surge protectors with noise suppression absolutely murders the speed.
 
stoofa said:
Gonna feel like a **** asking this question, but as I've never used these devices before :)
I'm assuming these need to be plugged directly into a wall socket and cannot run from say 4-way or 6-way extensions?
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I use one of mine on a 6 way extension - speed is unaffected for 25Meg BB.

It probably lowers the absolute upper limits of transfer speed - no problem if you don't need max speeds.
 
Downstairs we have a PS3, Wii & Sky+HD box which can all connect via wireless. However our wireless router is upstairs and although they can connect, the signal isn't great and we do see drop-out's.
So was thinking of adding a plug near our router and one downstairs - attach a 4prt switch to the one in the front room for the 3 devices as listed above, and then wire them all into the main setup near the router.

Just power sockets are a bit of a premium for us due to how much we have plugged in - so not that worried about "maximum speeds" but rather a solid connection without any drop-out, so maybe the home plug will do the job for us in an extension block.
 
m4cc45 said:
Devolo are the ones I use. Recommended them by a few people on here and in work. Got the AVPlus 500MB ones and, in a house with old wiring, I get a connection of 468 MB between them.



M.
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Cheers, was thinking of getting the through socket filtering ones.

On another note I have the TP-LINK PA211 kit and the most I've been able to get when it says 198MBits between the plugs is 9.5MB/s (actual megabytes so 80Mbps~).
 
stoofa said:
Downstairs we have a PS3, Wii & Sky+HD box which can all connect via wireless. However our wireless router is upstairs and although they can connect, the signal isn't great and we do see drop-out's.
So was thinking of adding a plug near our router and one downstairs - attach a 4prt switch to the one in the front room for the 3 devices as listed above, and then wire them all into the main setup near the router.

Just power sockets are a bit of a premium for us due to how much we have plugged in - so not that worried about "maximum speeds" but rather a solid connection without any drop-out, so maybe the home plug will do the job for us in an extension block.
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If you really want to use the wall socket buy this style of powerline (pass through):

I use this style.

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