Powerline Networking - Advice needed

Soldato
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I currently live in an old Mansion Block in London and have just had ADSL installed. Unfortunately, because of where the socket is, I've had to have the wireless router installed beside it. Even though the PC may be 30m away from the router, there are5 solid brick walls in the way, leading to a signal strength of 1/2 which does occasionally drop... I'm also limited in the download speed from the router due to this problem.

Firstly, is there any cheap way of checking that the wiring in this flat will be good enough to have a powerline system installed?

Secondly, what are users experience of these powerline systems? I'm looking at atleast 100mbps actual throughput, not theoretical... so I'm probably looking at those HD netgear ones? Do they work well, any issues?

Thanks in advance.
 
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