Turn any electrical socket into an internet connection with TP-Link!

As I said above I never have issues with them they work then die a couple of years later.........would I pay £70 well no the £26 ones for a pair work fine for me.

All that said, we just decorated my sons room and his PLA is now down to 11Mbps when used to be 4 times that, I did remove the sockets to wallpaper so will have to investigate.
 
George Hincapie said:
Sorry, I should have made it clear, the technology generally, but I have had Billion PLAs and (within the last month) TP-Link PLAs and had the same issue with both. Just random disconnects - some days worse than others. Incredibly frustrating.
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I would say this is more likely due to your wiring or interference. I have used a mixture of plugs for my network and we have moved home THREE times. They do not drop out, in fact I would say equipment like people's routers or BT HomeHubs would present more of a problem than these kits do!
 
For what it's worth, the same adapters that I got 4-5MB/sec transfer speeds from in my old house are now giving me about 400KB/sec in my new flat. They're entirely reliant on the wiring they're running through and whatever other electrical items are causing interference.
 
What speed adapters can handle a 152mb connection at full speed? My current ones are 300 I think, but they only max out at around 40MB.
 
Spacedeck said:
What speed adapters can handle a 152mb connection at full speed? My current ones are 300 I think, but they only max out at around 40MB.
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40MB is 320Mb so if you can clear up what terms you're using it would be useful.

Depends on your wiring and interference on the wiring the same way you can buy a wireless device and lose a chunk of the signal to range and interference.
 
The whole use of Mb, MB, mb are all confusing :(

So VM's 152Mb and using it was either the Devolo 200 or 300 plugs, I was getting 40Mb speeds.

Not sure on wiring but will just have to see what it's like. I'm thinking of trying the Devolo 1200+ which should hopefully increase the speed.
 
I'd probably go for something like that.

No one can easily tell how it will work out.

I was fine on 10mb with a 85mb kit

Then on 50mb I needed a 200mb kit because the 85 was too slow to max the connection

ofc others signals may vary, I'm in a newish small house one floor up from the router.
 
I got some TP-Link AV500 about a month ago with passthrough and it is chugging along at 60-65Mbps a sec. Seems to be fine and i dont think i had a drop out yet.

Latency isnt a issue with playing Diablo 3 , getting around about 40-50ms. With speedtest im getting 16-17ms on the tests. This is routed through an Apple Airport Extreme and then through to the Super Hub downstairs.

However im tempted to upgrade to the AV1200 to make the full speed of my Virgin Media 100Mbps
 
Been looking at some for abit, as my internet connection does vary via wireless. Plus i have thought of giving streaming ago so defo not gonna happen via wireless.

Not sure if it will work however, my modem is in the hall way. And were i use my pc its in a converted garage. Its not dead far away but i dare say this garage is on a different circuit.

Is there much point me trying this?
 
gooseuk said:
Been looking at some for abit, as my internet connection does vary via wireless. Plus i have thought of giving streaming ago so defo not gonna happen via wireless.

Not sure if it will work however, my modem is in the hall way. And were i use my pc its in a converted garage. Its not dead far away but i dare say this garage is on a different circuit.

Is there much point me trying this?
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I've used plugs across different circuits so it would have to have sent the signal through the fusebox (circuit breaker box these days) and it was fine for me.
 
gooseuk said:
Not sure if it will work however, my modem is in the hall way. And were i use my pc its in a converted garage. Its not dead far away but i dare say this garage is on a different circuit.

Is there much point me trying this?
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Should be fine, the reason Homeplugs have encryption (need to be synced together via the button on them) in the first place is because the was problems with neighbours ending up on the same network lol.
 
Lustral said:
However im tempted to upgrade to the AV1200 to make the full speed of my Virgin Media 100Mbps
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For comparison sakes, I recently bought the Devolo 1200+ homeplugs and they have been running nicely up to 130Mb. I probably am limiting mine a little with the extention lead plugged into each plug and the amount of plugs on them.
 
130 year old house here my power plugs have dropped out once in a year. assuming normal updown house power rings most houses should be fine. certainly better than most wireless signals in these old houses :D
 
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I had some of these about 10 years ago, it's hardly new tech. I don't ever recall having connection drops though... maybe this is inherent with the tech in the newer models, or maybe it's just the plethora of devices we have around the house these days and the inevitable interference that will result.
 
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