Fast Powerline adapters

balky12

balky12

balky12

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Hi all,

Recently upgraded to BT infinity 4 and enjoying 300mbps speeds.

However I need a powerline adapter to hard wire in my PC that is upstairs. I have recently fallen foul to (imo rather poor) power adapter advertisement. I bought a set of TP-Link AV600. Rated to 600mbs... however both ethernet ports are only 100mb rated. Turns out this is quite common place, more fool me.

Now has anyone got powerline adapters that have faster ethernet ports? I have heard the AV1200 or AV2000 adapters do... but once bitten twice shy and all that.

Thanks.
 
It's unlikely that the 100Mbps ports your AV600 adapters slowed them down at all. With that class of adapter the maximum throughput you're ever likely to see will be well under under 100Mbps.

The newer AV2-MIMO adapters will be faster, possibly even fast enough to need Gigabit ports. They still won't give you the full 300Mbps of your broadband connection.

Unless it's completely impossible your best bet is to run network cable. If going through the house is difficult consider drilling the external walls and running a cable that way.
 
Had some AV600s and was lucky to get 3MBps network transfer speeds. It was only in the next room. I ran a cat6 cable in the end.
 
I am getting 94mb so it's not the end of the world. Plenty quick enough.

However having all that speed and not being able to use it for my main purpose, gaming, and with quite a few games coming out that will need downloading (>50gb) I would quite like all the speed I can get :D

Turns out I did not read the small print carefully. I need an adapter with a gigabit port. So AV1200 or AV2000. Reading some reviews they should see me get over 200mb.
 
I’d seriously consider laying a proper network cable if at all possible and if you can’t do that I think I’d invest in mesh networking solutions before falling back to powerlines.
 
I also have infinity 4 and the tp link av-1200 3port adapters and see a max of 210 on them but it depends on time of day. And what other things are on at that point.

The adapters are the furthest point away from each other in the house and there's a 6m ether net cable on one as all the plugs from tv and other things mean it's slower if it's plugged right near the router
 
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