ethernet around the home
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London prices so i'm afraid im no use to you on the price front as im in the blady midlands.
Laminate wont help matters though as its a swine to lift and relay, will a add considerable amount of time to the job.
TP-LINK AV200 - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-032-TP
I was getting a consistent 17.8 Mbps down and 1.0 Mbps up with either!
I hear what your saying, but can only relay my experience, as I say, for the reason you mention I was going to get my house ethernet wired, but not now.
I think you must be listing your internet speed achievable whilst using them. That's rather meaningless. Surely if you bought 500mbps adapters, they should be "up to" 500mbps, which would be acceptable to some if they actually achieved the advertised speed. Many do not. That's why I asked, I have only ever heard of people listing poor speeds, or at least, what I would consider unacceptable speeds for my needs.
I've had 200Mbit Powerline adaptors and 500Mbit ones and the speeds were typically between 36Mbit and a max of 48Mbit. My home was built Dec 2006 so the wiring is pretty much new. Some people have achieved slightly better speeds I think where the 2 end points were on the same circuit.
Last year I wired up my place with CAT6 and I am getting the full 1Gbit now. The difference is huge.
If you have the opportunity to wire up with CAT5e/CAT6 then do it. In my case, I got an electrician to drop the cables down the walls while installing additional power sockets and I did the rest (cutting out backbox holes, terminating cables, etc). Most of the time will go on cutting out the backbox holes.
Last year I wired up my place with CAT6 and I am getting the full 1Gbit now. The difference is huge.
If you have the opportunity to wire up with CAT5e/CAT6 then do it. In my case, I got an electrician to drop the cables down the walls while installing additional power sockets and I did the rest (cutting out backbox holes, terminating cables, etc). Most of the time will go on cutting out the backbox holes.
200mbps adapters, my connection isn't particularly fast anyway (Sky) but its no worse if I plug directly into the router (i.e. avoiding the powerline) or use the powerline.....
Perhaps, with a faster connection (Such as my old Virgin Fibreoptic) I'd notice more of a dip?
Either way, its more than enough for my use....
I use the TPLink 200AV ones and it does max out at a consistent 59mbit (both in my new and old home, the previous one built in the 80's and the new built in the 1930's, but the wiring mainly the same age).
So I do lose a bit of the speed of my fibre (I get 80/20) but nothing that really makes a real world difference to me, except in LAN file transfers (I stream HD every day with no issues).
I will upgrade to the 500 mbit ones or better at some point, especially as I expect my speeds to be doubled but just ensure that you get the ones with gigabit ports (for some reason the sell some cheaper ones with 100 mbit ports which is just daft).
Flood cabling is nice and I might eventually move to it but only as and when I have access anyway, otherwise it is expensive for not much real world gain (depending on your specifics).
So I do lose a bit of the speed of my fibre (I get 80/20) but nothing that really makes a real world difference to me, except in LAN file transfers (I stream HD every day with no issues).
I will upgrade to the 500 mbit ones or better at some point, especially as I expect my speeds to be doubled but just ensure that you get the ones with gigabit ports (for some reason the sell some cheaper ones with 100 mbit ports which is just daft).
Flood cabling is nice and I might eventually move to it but only as and when I have access anyway, otherwise it is expensive for not much real world gain (depending on your specifics).