200mbps Powerline or 450mbps Wireless card for VM superhub?

vodkacokebloke · 27 Feb 2013 at 21:22

As title really - the router (VM Superhub) in my new place is in the opposite side of the house to where my pc is, and tomorrow i'll be calling in Overclockers for either Powerline or a wireless adapter - question is which would work better?

Both are similarly priced, which is most likely to be solid and speedy?

If it makes any difference, when i scan for wifi using my phone i get 3 or 4 results, so not an overly crowded area. Many thanks for your replies/suggestions.

bremen1874 · 27 Feb 2013 at 21:29

I'd always choose Powerline over wireless for fixed equipment.

JAzz · 28 Feb 2013 at 07:22

What speed you on with Virgin? If 100mb I'd go for the 500mbs powerline

vodkacokebloke · 28 Feb 2013 at 08:43

30mb at the minute, but will likely double it to 60mb before too long

JAzz · 28 Feb 2013 at 11:15

I'd just go with the 500mbs, probably cost you under £10 more and at least will be future proof. Especially if your home wiring isn't up to scratch, my mate has the 200mbs and 60MB and he couldn't max his ones out at his wiring was old. The 500mbs worked fine and now he is on 100MB it still works fine.

vodkacokebloke · 28 Feb 2013 at 17:26

thanks for your replies.

I went for the basic 200mbs for now, will upgrade later if the need arises. Working great so far, running nice and fast.

mranderson · 28 Feb 2013 at 17:32

....and stable

vodkacokebloke · 28 Feb 2013 at 19:39

in truth i dont know about the stability yet. It was fine for the half hour i was using if before i left for work though.

It can have a more rigorous test later tonight

Hades · 1 Mar 2013 at 09:21

Likewise I'd go powerline over wireless for fixed equipment where it's not very close to the router.

HeX · 1 Mar 2013 at 09:48

I use TP Link 200mbps Powerline efforts for my VM (on 60Mb) works a treat, pings and speeds as if it were hooked up via cat5.

s4ndst0rm · 1 Mar 2013 at 12:07

I think I may have to adopt the Powerline approach. My Samsung devices are very tempremental on the Wireless network atm.

Is there a recommended maximum number of devices connected to one Powerline plug (as I am short of plug points too)? Or do they just share the 200mbps bandwidth on demand?

TheVoice · 2 Mar 2013 at 20:45

You won't get 200Mbps in practice, I get around 100Mbps between my PC and router, and 85 between my router and PS3/360/Sky box. The Ethernet ports on them are often 10/100 anyway.

You can just connect a switch to the power line adapter if you need more than one device connected to it.