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sabvre42 on 25 February 2016
rolltide101x said:
sabvre42 said:

Ethernet over Power is hit or miss. There are SEVERAL factors that affect your performance and they impact them HARD. 

1.) Are both devices on the same circuit? Crossing a circuit breaker can really kill your signal.
2.) What type of wiring does your house use? Back in the day they used to use aluminum in electrical wires (and supposedly new houses are using tin) -- the concept is to reduce costs due to copper costs... but the impact is worse ethernet over power (and a slight corrosion on your outlets over a decade or two).

Also, a N or AC wireless connection will almost always provide faster speeds; however, both WiFi and ethernet or power suffer from packet loss.

1st bold: Can but usually does not. Ive used mine at several different places on totally different sides of the house with 0 issues. Powerline Adapters are AlMOST ALWAYS faster than WiFi. The only thing I have discovered with them is they do not like surge protectors on either one of them

 

2nd bold: That is not even partly true. Powerline adapters are almost as fast as an ethernet cable on the same circuit and only slightly behind on a different circuit. Both are faster than WiFi

Theoretical max for powerline internet is usually 200mbps or 500mbps (according to the cnet article on the devices claiming to be 1200mbps ... they are pretty much BS and will not even come within miles of that). I've personally never seen anyone hit those full speeds on their setup... but i won't say its not possible. I've also seen a bunch of these devices come with 10/100 ports meaning you cannot get past 94mbps anyways...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/231419/dlink_powerline_speed_test.html

As for wireless, the 2.4ghz frequency on both N and AC tends to cap out between 300-450, but on the 5ghz band you can hit 700-1500mbps.



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rolltide101x on 18 March 2016
sabvre42 said:
 

Theoretical max for powerline internet is usually 200mbps or 500mbps (according to the cnet article on the devices claiming to be 1200mbps ... they are pretty much BS and will not even come within miles of that). I've personally never seen anyone hit those full speeds on their setup... but i won't say its not possible. I've also seen a bunch of these devices come with 10/100 ports meaning you cannot get past 94mbps anyways...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/231419/dlink_powerline_speed_test.html

As for wireless, the 2.4ghz frequency on both N and AC tends to cap out between 300-450, but on the 5ghz band you can hit 700-1500mbps.

Sorry for the late reply but speed is not what matters it is latency.

 

I have 2 PS4s in the same room one hooked up directly to the router and the other through a power line adapter. My ping on the ethernet is 33 and my ping on the power line adapter is 40. I will test them via WiFi more later but I beleive it was in the 80s with WiFi last time I checked.

 

Power Line adapters offer a more stable and steady stream than WiFi. My only issue is about once a month they lose connection to each other for some reason and they need to be unplugged and replugged in (but that is probably because I bought cheap ones lol)