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  • Re: Powerline Ethernet adapters

    From Nightfox@VERT to Android8675 on Sun Jun 28 17:35:23 2015
    Re: Re: Powerline Ethernet adapters
    By: Android8675 to Nightfox on Sun Jun 28 2015 07:15:55

    I live in a rural area in an old 1970s mobile home. I got 3 of these adapters because my wireless setup was ass and I wanted to see if it would work for my HT (I stream HD stuff to my tv), and I'm happy to report that for the most part a couple inexpensive 600mb adapters work great in my house. I actually get about 250-350mb speeds, and I'm considering replacing the wall outlets because mine are old and pretty loose, but even with my 1970's wiring and outlets, I get enough speed to consider it faster than my old wireness N connection.

    That's good that they're working for you.

    Latency is lower than wireless as well, if you're a gamer that might matter.

    Yeah, I like to play games, so I'd like to get the lowest latency as possible.

    Nightfox

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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT to Android8675 on Mon Jun 29 09:24:23 2015
    Re: Re: Powerline Ethernet adapters
    By: Android8675 to Nightfox on Sun Jun 28 2015 07:15 am

    I live in a rural area in an old 1970s mobile home. I got 3 of these adapters because my wireless setup was ass and I wanted to see if it would work for my HT

    Glad to hear more success stories. I spent quite a bit of time trying to get WDS (wireless distribution system) working with 2 wireless routers to extend the range in my house. Using 2 routers running DD-WRT (with different chipsets) I could almost get it to work. With 2 identical routers and the same version of DD-WRT, it mostly worked, but was inconsistent, and I'd get speedtests in the 4-5 mbps range on the far end when the near end would test at 50 mbps.

    I put a couple of powerline adapters in place, set the far end wireless
    router to be an access point, turned off DHCP, gave it an IP address and pointed its' gateway to the near end, and it's been trouble-free ever since.

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