What would a gamer do?

I ran an adsl extension from the main BT socket, through the wall cavity to the room above. Easily done, 2 hours tops but it depends on your walls etc.

From my experience I'd say avoid powerline adapters, they increase your ping by a significant bit even on newer circuits.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
I used powerline for a while but I wanted to get the best plus cables are really cheap. Cheaper than decent powerline kits.
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Oh I agree ethernet is best if possible. When my PC waa upstairs getting cable there was awkward (three floor house) so powerline was the best option and cheap if bought used.

When I moved into the proper office downstairs I ran both ethernet and also the ADSL cable under the floor and through a wall. I now have three tiers of connection; wired for best results in part of the house, powerline for awkward locations and now also mesh wifi throughout the house for portable devices.
 
Just bought another switch.

I will now have 8 ports downstairs, 8 upstairs and 4 in the attic.

Good deals to be had on switches. 2 of mine have cost less than £30 combined iirc.
 
SixTwoSix said:
Outdated and frequently repeated misinformation, however it will depend on the wiring in your house.

I'm on either single digit ping or low teens with PL adapters.
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Bolded bit is very important, personally I gave up trying powerline adaptors after buying 3 kits (different manufacturers/generations) all of which have ended up in the "junk, but cost too much to just throw out" drawer ;)
It turns out the wiring in our street (for houses that haven't been rewired since they were built in the 70's) basically doesn't work with them, I think because it's too big/noisy a ring.

Personally in the op's case I'd buy some cable, ends and a crimper and run it neatly.
 
These are all completely useless ideas. The only way to really solve this issue is laying new fibre from your local exchange and hanging it through your bathroom window. It's called FTTT (Fibre To The Toilet), Openreach offer the service to select gaming clientele .

Or you could just do what they said.
 
Easy method - Buy a set of powerlines, you will most probably have no issues with them

Doing it properly - Get a long Ethernet cable from the router to you PC
 
Feek said:
Not this
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Why not? My router sits right next to my PC (via a phone socket extension) so is wired directly into it, but I have to use powerlines for the rest of the house (three stories and thick brick walls) and haven't had a problem when plugging stuff in downstairs via powerlines.
 
I get single digit - low teens pings and ~550mb sync speed on tp link av-1300 powerlines, its fast enough for steam home streaming, direct cable would obviously be better, but tbh I doubt I would notice much difference
 
When we moved into ours the master socket was there but damaged so spoken with open reach.

They came out and realised there was no power socket near it and asked where we'd prefer the new one :D
 
It cost me £60 for virgin to move the access point from the living room up to my gaming room, can’t be much more than that?
 
Malevolence said:
Why not? My router sits right next to my PC (via a phone socket extension) so is wired directly into it, but I have to use powerlines for the rest of the house (three stories and thick brick walls) and haven't had a problem when plugging stuff in downstairs via powerlines.
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IIRC as well as the problems you cna have with powerlines, they're often very noisy in the RF spectrum in a way that interferes with a lot of sensitive radio equipment especially in the ham radio ranges.
Basically you're using unshielded wiring that was never intended for such a use, to send very high frequency electrical signals and the household wiring can easily act as a radio antenna and transmit it (sort of the reverse of when your headphones/speakers pick up the local taxi company, or some random radio fragments).
 
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