any good gaming powerlines?

[tonimark]

so in the previous weeks we re-arrenged the furniture to house , but unfortunetly we moved the router 2 rooms way and i don't have a direct connection to the router... i connected to the wifi using a basic network card but when tested in gaming it had horrible ping (i mean not general in some packeges) which generated a sore of lag and rendered most of my online games unplayable... so does anyone having an idea for a gaming powerline with the lowest latency? target budget is 50 euros also another powerline is already installed in the house

[76561198343548661]

i dont like powewr lines . use cables

[Bad 💀 Motha]

PowerLine LAN adapters don't work well in all homes.

I would just buy a set that is TP-Link branded and try it out. If doesn't do well, return it.

But yea I mean if you are on the same floor, just run your own custom length ethernet cable. It's not hard to do.

[SeriousCCIE]

It depends very much on where the power plugs are and where the circuit breaker panel has those circuits. If your data connection crosses over from one side of the breaker to another, or travels a good distance from the top of the breaker to the bottom in order for data to "flow" between power line adapters, it'll have poor performance.

Many smarthome adapters that use the power line to communicate suffer from similar issues (well, the same issues).

I have 10mb power line adapters and multi gigabit ones; they all perform poorly when going a far distance in the electrical wiring--sometimes it is across the hallway but really goes around the house and back again based on how the electrical wiring is. Pretty bad.

In those situations, the 10mb/slowest type of power line adapter works best... much less can go wrong with the data becoming corrupt. However, that isn't always so good for regular daily use. It often is good enough for gaming, and other things too--like printers, slow wifi connectivity for old stuff, etc.

When it comes down to performance, though, you might want to try using a really long ethernet cable instead of powerline adapters. Sometimes 100 feet of network cable with broken clips on the end works a lot better than high end powerline adapters just because of where you need to plug stuff in.

[Blueberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

500ft ethernet cable
gg

[Masque]

I've been using these since March of 2019, and they've never failed to deliver at full speed. I pay for 25Mb, and it never goes lower. Not once.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X3GX99C/

And I'm in a house built in 1984, my PC is on a different circuit than the router, which is at the other end of the house. I've never been happier with a product than this one, not even joking.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

> 1000 foot spool of CAT5E or CAT6A
> RJ45 Crimping Tool
> Bag of bare RJ45 ends
> Bag of RJ45 snag-less boot
> Measuring Tape (measure out the total length you will need from Router to Device, then add some extra length when you actually do the cable in-case you may need to move the device; so figure maybe add an extra 5-10 feet to whatever the actual measurement ends up being)

RJ45 Ethernet (Straight) Wiring Diagram:
https://www.thetechmentor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/RJ45-Pinout-T568A-Wiring-diagram.jpg

Seriously, it's not that hard and it will provide you with better connections for all your Desktops and Game Consoles.

You can also use Cable Wired Clips if needed so you can keep the wiring job clean, ran along base-boards if needed. Or you can run from one room and have the wiring go through the back of a closest or something and come out into the other room so people don't even see your cables and so you can avoid hazard runs or lengthier runs and such.

As long as use quality Ethernet Cable (the 5E or 6A helps as its double-shielded for longer runs) you should be good as long as each cable is less than 300 feet. Which even in a home that is approx 2000-5000 square feet; you shouldn't need a single cable to run that long of a length.

[_I_]

no

powerline is only good across the same circuit breakers at distances where you could easily run a lan cable anyway

across breakers its sketchy at best or other side of the 110/220v rail its even worse

[Masque]

I'd love for eiher _I_ or Bad Motha to come to my house and explain why this house is some kind of freak anomaly. It's literally never slowed down once since March of 2019, in an old house, across circuits, from opposite ends of the house, ever.

Weird house, I guess.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Ⓜ Ⓐ Ⓢ Ⓠ Ⓤ Ⓔ:

I'd love for eiher _I_ or Bad Motha to come to my house and explain why this house is some kind of freak anomaly. It's literally never slowed down once since March of 2019, in an old house, across circuits, from opposite ends of the house, ever.

Weird house, I guess.

You are referring to when using WiFi?

The problem with PowerLine that I have seen first hand was hardly ever any speed or ping issues; but simply that two rooms on different circuits might not work as far as a powerline adapter connection goes.

[Masque]

"You are referring to when using WiFi?"

I don't use WiFi except for my phone and Kindle. For my desktop PC, the powerline I linked above, from my Ethernet port to an outlet in this room, to an outlet at the other end of the house (which is naturally on a separate circuit, but in the same breaker box) to the Ethernet port in the Centurylink modem/router. Three years now, never slowed down once, any slower than the max speed I pay for (3.2 GB/s, 25Gbps). In a house built buy one guy in the 80s, from a Popular Mechanics magazine blueprint.

He must have done something right, I can't complain.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Older homes that actually tend to work better on sometimes because they often would put like 4 rooms onto one circuit. This can be bad though if you all trying to run Gaming PCs in your rooms though.

Modern homes I tend to see have a dedicated circuit for each room; bedrooms being like 15A each. Kitchen being like 30A or more and then bathrooms being like 20-30A each.

PowerLine Adapter might or might not work across rooms that are on a different circuit.
May depend how the break-box is actually wired up and such.

Like I said, get a decent pair such as TP-Link from a retailer that is easy to refund/return though. This way if doesn't work or you don't like it, you can return it and try something else.

[Masque]

Two rooms in use are living room and bedroom -- both are separate 15A breakers.

All I know is I've never had anything but trouble with desktop WiFi -- internal, external, plug-in extenders, what have you -- and when I got these I never looked back. Maybe it's the steel roof on my house, I don't know. Before I got these I had spent hundreds on different WiFi solutions, and played with drivers and settings for hours and hours, while these, to paraphrase Todd Howard, just work, and I can forget they even exist. For 80 bucks.

I would have gone with cables, but I'm not going to modify my house and run cable under floors, through walls, all the way to the other end of the house.

[_I_]

could also be that there are not many devices with switching power supplies plugged in all of the time
those create small spikes in freq ranges that powerline adapters use

and/or you are close to a power station so the power coming into the house has a very clean 50/60hz wave

[Bad 💀 Motha]

WiFi hardly ever "just works"
Unless you live in an area where your neighbors are far apart perhaps.
Anytime I have installed someone else Router, or my own. I always have to spend a good hour or so playing around with the WiFi to get it just right. The main thing is, your neighbors often are not changing their WiFi channel, so if you guys have the same ISP or brand of Router, chances are you all are using the same WiFi channel (for those who did not change it). And this is always a must to learn how to check for, and also change. First off you need Android + WiFi Analyzer app so you can see which WiFi channels are you neighbors are using, then pick one they aren't using. Or pick one where your device (such as Phone w/ WiFi) can barely pickup, meaning they are far enough away to where it shouldn't be a problem.

[_I_]

+1 to wifi analizer, great for finding open wifi freqs on 2.4ghz range
and manually set the router to open channels

most 5ghz routers will auto change channels if there is interference

if using a router+modem combo and a dedicated router, log into the combo and disable its wifi completely if possible, or set it up as a guest network that cannot contact your routers devices
but make sure they are on different channels