Are powerline adapters good

bledd. said:
Replace it with dog5e
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That didn't end well either. We now have a 1 eyed Shih Tzu called Thor, in theory he should be called Odin, but when we got him he had two eyes.... who knew? He's not even capable of 15mbit to at least try and keep this on track ;)
 
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Just bought a pair of Devolo 500's the other day as there is no way to run Cat5e upstairs sadly.

It works great! New build so wiring must be helping. Was very dubious about how well it would work. However I don't do a lot of online gaming anymore and I don't stream stuff across the network so it does the job for me.
 
I using netgear powerline 500 forget model number and have yet to have any issues with them. I get my full fibre speed down them.
I tested them only other week against wired connection they wasn't much in it. Ping was around 10ms difference and download speed was 3mb avg.
 
No.
Cat6/Cat5e>Powerline>Wireless

I'm yet to find a valid case where someone "can't" run a cable, usually it is not done out of aesthetic preference.
 
Steveocee said:
No.
Cat6/Cat5e>Powerline>Wireless

I'm yet to find a valid case where someone "can't" run a cable, usually it is not done out of aesthetic preference.
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Since I moved house and into a house that only has BT or Sky fibre am limited to using the main phone socket the master socket.
This is in the living room and my Pc is in bed room to run a cable this distance just isn't practical.
I would sooner take the little performance hit.
 
shankly1985 said:
Since I moved house and into a house that only has BT or Sky fibre am limited to using the main phone socket the master socket.
This is in the living room and my Pc is in bed room to run a cable this distance just isn't practical.
I would sooner take the little performance hit.
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I'm not challenging but how is it not practical? An external cat5 if run well wouldn't look out of place, would be tidy, can be finished nicely internally into wall mounted boxes and would cost far less than powerlines.
 
Steveocee said:
I'm not challenging but how is it not practical? An external cat5 if run well wouldn't look out of place, would be tidy, can be finished nicely internally into wall mounted boxes and would cost far less than powerlines.
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It's just too far away, I would after run around 4 door frames, hall ways and stairs lol :) all for extra 10ms ping and around 3mb download speed.
 
I have a NAS downstairs and my PC upstairs. It's not ideal to run Cat5e cable yet so I'm using AV1200 powerline adapters.

These bad boys use up all my internet bandwidth and then some. I was internally transferring last night and got a max of 294mbps. Using speed LAN I get 320mbps read and 150mbps write. Can't remember what the ping is but it's good enough for FPS gaming.

Would love cabling but these are up to the job for now.
 
^With an ethernet cable, you'd get ~950+ Mbps read/write speeds, unless your hard drive/NAS is junk.
 
As others have said the most important thing is your houses wiring.

I have a couple of Denovo AV1200 units and while they are fine for streaming HD to my Media Centre they aren't fast enough to get full speed from my Virgin 152Mb connection.

In case it helps provide context my house was built in the 70's.
 
bledd. said:
Simple answer - No.

They increase ping
Lower transfer rate
Create chance of dropouts

Run a cat5e cable.
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increase ping by about 1-2 in my experience which isn't exactly noticable. chance of dropouts depends on internal wiring not the actual powerlines as powrlines in perfect internal wired house could work perfectly with no dropouts. Bad wiring could lead to dropouts. Low transfer rate well depends on the kit you buy! For most 500Mb kit will give them thier full connection speed so unless you have a demanding network where you transfer files across your network it hardly makes a difference for most consumers.

But you are right wired is the best solution, where wired isnt a option powerlines is the best option over wifi. Wi-fi is only good for mobile devices and convienience
 
I find Powerline in our house degrades after time meaning you have to power cycle them to get them back up to a usable speed.

Also for some reason the YouTube app on my Xbox One really didn't like the connection and would continuously buffer. A decent AC router improved things for me no end.

The only thing I have connected now is my VM TiVo box which only needs a very basic connection anyway for remote scheduling etc. Everything else is AC wireless and does a better job.
 
Well I cant run Cat5e round the house due to the thickness of the walls and the buildings design. That and I am planning to move out which I aim to run Cat6 everywhere possible.

Just to update you all, I upgraded from my ageing Netgear AV200 to TP-Link AV1200. I doubled my transfer rate which has helped things in the front room.

Netgear = 4.5 - 5 mb/s
TP-Link = 10mb/s solid.

No where near what they are rated for but I break all the rules, so I cross ring mains and run a long distance.

The good thing is the only things on the link is TV/Youview/Xbox/Phones/Tablets. Anything bandwidth intensive is in the office.
 
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