Powerlines?!?!!?

[Ceixah]

Rightio, any1 use these?

I'm tempted to get one with a wired connection rather than running a 15meter cable through my house and up the stairs?

any1 have any experience with them etc?

wireless signal in my house is awful and my connection is diabolical so I want to avoid losing any ping/speed etc through the line.

 

[Poag]

Yep i've got 4.

1 on the router, one on the tv, one on a wifi extender back towards the garden and one on my media center.

As you've got, my wifi is terrible due to super thick walls. I always buy devolo devices, best cost/performance for me. I've got a mix of older ones and newer ones. The one of the router is the newest one 500Mbps, on my TV i've got a 50Mbps which gives about 4MB/s throughput which is fine for movie streaming. The one at the back of the house is a wifi extender model without a plug.

 

[Ceixah]

coolio, worth buying then?

my internet is only 4mbs atm cuz the area doesn't have fiber so it's pretty useless, but having to run a cable up my stairs is horrific just hoping for a much better solution without paying BT £150 to install another phone line upstairs

 

[Poag]

Get a starter kit from Amazon. It'll have two plugs, you can get a more expensive one for a plug with wifi on it, but it wont have a power socket.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Devolo-dLAN...ie=UTF8&qid=1386593642&sr=1-6&keywords=Devolo

for example its not uber wifi but its fair.

 

[Gups]

They will get you out of a jam and work very well as long as on the same ring,

but still hurts my brain..........Cabling 101 : power and data does not mix!!

But they work..

 

[smurkin]

I am using a pair of buffalos 500 Mbps from my office to the living room. They are ok , but the signal suffers from them being on a separate ring (front-v-back of house) - I can get up to 12 MBps (35% signal) which is good for streaming blu rays. However, plug in a few chargers (eg. my iPad and toothbrush chargers) and the bandwidth drops by about 50%. If I put them on the same ring I get 80+%.

Should be good enough to relay your bb signal. But I have a NAS and I like to move big files around in doors and they are a bit choked for this king of application. Mine are actually plugged into a switch.

 

[TdC]

what Smurkin said tbh. ALso, avoid plugging them in to extention cords etc. Let the adapter be the first device on the socket for best performance. Remember just because the adapter says 500Mbit only means it can reach that under the most optimal of lab conditions

 

[Gups]

what Smurkin said tbh. ALso, avoid plugging them in to extention cords etc. Let the adapter be the first device on the socket for best performance. Remember just because the adapter says 500Mbit only means it can reach that under the most optimal of lab conditions

optimail lab conditions