Powerline pass through adapters setup

b3mor · 2 Jan 2012 at 20:53

Hi,

I've had enough of using flaky wireless for gaming, are powerline adapters likely to be much better? I am ofc assuming the wireless adapter is the cause of my poor performance and not that I'm just a crap player!

Looking at this:

http://www.netgear.co.uk/home/products/powerline-and-coax/work-and-play/XAV2501.aspx

I've got loads of devices connected to the router atm, all of them wireless, but only need to get one of them (my gaming machine) through a wired link. I assume I can keep using wireless for the majority of the devices and the powerline adapters for the gaming machine?

Router if it makes any difference is a Netgear DG834PN.

Cheers!

Deleted member 77746 · 2 Jan 2012 at 21:17

Home plugs are fantastic devices. It helps get full coverage in the home easy. There's a few products out now what you can purchase plug n play.

harryface · 2 Jan 2012 at 22:00

yeah. I've been using powerline in my new house as the router is out of reach for a good wireless connection. Although i have found that when using them at university my latency increased from 15 on wifi to ~35 on power line. so i guess there are pros and cons.

Deleted member 77746 · 2 Jan 2012 at 22:28

harryface said:
yeah. I've been using powerline in my new house as the router is out of reach for a good wireless connection. Although i have found that when using them at university my latency increased from 15 on wifi to ~35 on power line. so i guess there are pros and cons.

Won't really make a difference in the real world. I would say there's no cons of using home plugs. It's a brilliant technology that is only going to get better.

b3mor · 2 Jan 2012 at 23:29

Tbh I don't have a problem getting wireless to work anywhere in the house, my problem is that I think it is not suited to gaming? I assumed that these powerline adapters would lower the ping, is that not likely to be the case?

Thanks.