Powerline Adapters - Not as good as I thought.

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So recently I went ahead and bought some Powerline adapters because of the fact that my Asus PCE-N53 NIC was just not cutting it anymore and I was not getting the full speeds that I was paying for as Wifi sucks, let's be honest here.

This is the Powerline Adapters that I went and got:

Affordable, look nice and rather small too.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-094-TP

I searched around and they seemed to do the job rather well, so I thought nothing of it and bought them immediately.

They arrived and for the first 2-3 days, they were okay, giving my my full speeds (70-75Mb / 18Mb), so all was well, but recently, there has been strange occurrences happening surrounding the Powerline adapters.

Randomly, they will just disconnect and if I try my wi-fi connection, the internet will still be up and running and the Ethernet will not come back on for a good 30 seconds - 1 minute later.

I had to go downstairs and manually reset them this morning as I was having some internet troubles, but that was more of a problem downstairs, so they're not really at fault for that but yeah, it seems like they're not as stable as I hoped. Is this because of the fact that they are suffering from interference also, maybe wall socket interference or what?

Should I buy some better ones that aren't as cheap, what exactly is going on? any clues?
 
I was thinking that it might be interference too. Things like microwaves in particular, whilst active, tend to inhibit the performance of the adapters. Mine would completely cut off if the microwave was running.
 
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