Powerline adaptors

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I've got my gaming PC in my bedroom and the wireless router in my dad's office downstairs. Unfortunately, the signal is dreadful - thick walls and a bad router (which he still tries to claim is good) mean at most I'll get an 18mbps intermittent connection.

Rather than replace my wireless adaptor (seems to have issues with Windows 7) and run USB extensions so I can put it on the landing, I was debating getting the powerline adaptors, or something similar and simply running ethernet cables. What are these like in terms of delivering the speeds they claim?

Thanks.
 
Depends on your internal wiring.

If it's OK and up to a decent standard they are pretty much on the money - you have old, dodgy wiring they can be hit and miss. I lived in a Victorian terrace in Bristol with iffy old wiring and they were really slow and would drop packets a lot.
I now live in a 10 year old house with modern wiring and they sync at 90-95% of the quoted speeds.
 
I used to live in Bristol, strange times.

The house I'm in is late 70's/early 80's I think, so I imagine the wiring is middle of the road. Am I right in guessing there's no way to test?

How are they for stability/performance for gaming etc? I'm looking at the TP-Link ones on OC and they say 200mbps. Given that they would be limited to 100mbps by the router, I would have thought it would be a pretty reasonable if there was decent wiring.
 
...You might find that its 100mbps each way.

We have some of the Devolo ones and don't have any problems with them :)
 
We've got three of the TP-Link devices at home, and they're rock solid. They've been in use for about ten months and none of them have ever lost connection. Couldn't comment on pings as we just use them for general browsing and media streaming.
 
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