Hardline adapters

Almightyliham

Almightyliham

Almightyliham

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Hi guys,

the house im in with 2 other guys, they are moaning about my streams of cables. unfortunatley wireless isn't a option in my room as there is only 1 room with the line for broadband. Reading through some reviews from various sites they all seem to say that there is a problem with the wiring which is older than 5 years, this house hasn't been rewired since the 70's would using the hardline adapters still be a viable option?

Thanks
 
Hide it under carpets / use trunking.

Don't waste your time with powerline, you'll hate it.
 
Almightyliham said:
Hi guys,

the house im in with 2 other guys, they are moaning about my streams of cables. unfortunatley wireless isn't a option in my room as there is only 1 room with the line for broadband. Reading through some reviews from various sites they all seem to say that there is a problem with the wiring which is older than 5 years, this house hasn't been rewired since the 70's would using the hardline adapters still be a viable option?

Thanks
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Powerline adaptors should still be fine, very few houses have wiring that isn't older than 5 years. My previous house had wiring from the 70's too, they worked fine, current house is about 10 years old, they work fine here as well.

Order a pair online, try them out, if they don't work return them under the DSA.
 
bledd. said:
They will 'work' but the speeds are dreadful on them.
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Are you making this up as you go along? Unless he's using it for constantly transferring massive amounts of data across a lan he'd be hard pressed to find a powerline adaptor that doesn't transfer at his maximum broadband speed.

Previous house I was getting around 80mb down and a pair of cheap 200mb adaptors easily coped with it (with **** wiring).
 
bremen1874 said:
bledd. never has anything nice to say about Powerline adapters. I think one must have bitten him when he was a child. ;)
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Indeed, various people have had mixed experiences with them but ultimately it's down to your house wiring whether they'll work well or not. Aside from one that failed (and was replaced under warranty) mine have worked solidly for 18+ months and provided far better connectivity than I'd be able to achieve with wi-fi.
 
Make sure they are all on the same "ring" main and not separated by earth leakage circuit breakers. That's when problems arise.
 
Can't recommend powerline adapters enough, have used them in 3 properties, one of them with 40 year old wiring over 3 floors, not a single issue.

Pings have dropped to under 10ms as opposed to 20'ish plus i've had using wifi in each property.

In terms of transfer speeds, you should always hit within 80% of the rated speeds.

There will be certain places that have issues with them but that's hit and miss. They're much better than having wires trailing all over.
 
I guess no one else is as fussy as me :p

I like having 100MB/s network transfer speeds. Don't see powerline getting close to that.
 
Maybe you guys can help me? I have a set of TP link TL-PA251KIT powerline adapters, and for the most part they work fine. But occasionally the signal will drop, and i wont get an internet connection and usually have to restart the device thats recieving the signal (my xbox or PC) and then it works fine again. Starting to get pretty annoying
 
I can't see Powerline adapters ever getting to true Gigabit speeds.

As far as I'm concerned they're mainly there as an alternative to wireless. They're also a decent option for the many people that would get along quite happily with 100Mb Ethernet but don't want to mess with cables.

And where did 80% of rated speed come from? Even the good stuff only achieves about 25% of the headline speed rating.
 
bledd. said:
I guess no one else is as fussy as me :p

I like having 100MB/s network transfer speeds. Don't see powerline getting close to that.
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I get 130MB transfer speeds on my Zyxel 600MB Gigabit powerlines.
 
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