These are amazing. I don't understand why it took me this long to find them

These are amazing. I don't understand why it took me this long to find them.

What are the downsides to these? Bandwidth is better than WiFi, latency is better than WiFi, and stability is way better than WiFi.

Not that i know... My internal net is at 282Mb/s even if we have got two different line

You have my interest shill. Tell me more

When i got mine my internet speed got up form 20Mb/s to 80~Mb/s

In houses with shitty wiring they can be not so good. But yeah I've had to use them once when I lived in a basement for a while, significant improvement over wifi.

I used them before I discovered the RJ11 connectors in my house were cat5e. The latency wasn't as good as proper networking, but it was a hell of a lot more consistent than wifi. Depending on the house's wiring, they might not work (I think multi-phase homes have this problem).

For some reason everything I do over PowerLan is slightly delayed
For example after opening a YouTube video it takes 5 seconds where nothing happens at all until it starts loading
After a connection is established though everything works flawlessly

I have no idea how to troubleshoot this

Used it for like a year, was pretty good. Unfortunately it broke after a power outage, wouldn't take the signal anymore. Went fuck it and spent the time wiring the house up with cat 5. It had the same effect as the power line adapter.

you do ping test with youtube server

check that with current setup, wifi, dirrect ethernet wire

Check the difference and make sense of data

Good in the case a room does not have Ethernet ports.

Bad if the house wiring is old/degrading. If a house was built over a longer period of time or in sections, there may be separate circuits for areas of the house. Don't work well if plugged in to a surge protector, so if you live in an area without grounds, can be some potential damage from surges.

If that thing isn't Wifi, what is it?

Actually a really good response.

Do a reverse image search.

Ah, an extender. This thread is now boring to me. I shall take my leave.

what does it do?

More or less did that already
Over wifi and direct wire everything is as expected and things work immediately

Even for pings it takes a few seconds before "the signal gets through"
After that I get normal results
It's obvious the problem is with powerlan, but I do not know whether it's the wiring or my adapters

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>More or less did that already
>Over wifi and direct wire everything is as expected and things work immediately
>Even for pings it takes a few seconds before "the signal gets through"
>After that I get normal results
>It's obvious the problem is with powerlan, but I do not know whether it's the wiring or my adapters

Leave a terminal open that pings Google to keep it active.

My house was built on 1990 and they work fine with its wiring. Also there area few that work with multiple phases - my house is 3phases and i got some devolos that handle it

Protip : Get one that return the power outlet to you

The only problem I had in the 4 years of use is that like three times or so i had to replug them for some reason

faggots. Just take the time and effort to lay down some proper CAT6 cables in your house

crap like this will never get close to a proper wired connection in stability and performance. don't even get me started on WiFi.

I tried Dlink's 600mbps and barely got 100mbps. My wiring sucks I guess. Took them back for a refund.

It turns your power lines into a radio transmitter which can perturb wireless devices in your home

Take the two hours and wire the rooms you need with cat 6.

This is better than wifi, but its a middle solution to just using cat 6.

>effort
No thanks

That's because you had a shit router.

>internet speed got up

I'd rather put in the effort than having unreliable internet.

>I live in a poor person bungalow

Ebin meme.

You dont need to wire the entire house. Just the router to the two or three rooms that need it.

Both kids rooms dont need it (if anything, they will use wifi that i can turn off), just the living room and bedroom for now.

Its not like you need a cat outlet every 5 feet.

>"just plug it in and it werks!"

sounds unsecure as fuck.

>
>I'd rather put in the effort than having unreliable internet.

It has been reliable for me.

Well wifi is "reliable" too.

>tfw I have 1000/1000 FTTH internet
>tfw I use an AC wireless adapter with 5GHz and get 100+/100+ and no latency issues or packet loss issues

Get with the times, grandpa. Wires are so 90's.

Mine disconnects every once in a while and i have to un and replug it in

>get with the times
>has 100mbit network connection
kek

"Yeah its super reliable, i just have to unplug and replug it once a day"

They have an encryption system similar to WPA2

had the same problem but become extremely rare (once a week) when I'm on Linux

>extremely rare
>once a week

So this is considered extremely rare nowadays? The day my router/modem/computer/phone pulls shit like that on me is the day I return/trash it and buy new stuff

i have gigabit uncapped fiber internet, these things are fucking shit

All depends on your home wiring.

i get 36 megaBYTES/second using 3x3 stream 802.11n on 5ghz, you must be doing something wrong and/or be totally retarded

Please don't use non-standard measurements.
>36 MBps ~= 290Mbps
That is still horrible compared to Ethernet.

Yeah, just like ethernet cables. Everything should be wireless because muh encryption.

If your house has shitty wiring, you're fucked. Even if your house has good wiring, it's going to introduce some latency that, depending on your router, could be on par or worse than wireless.

Still excellent, in my opinion, but not perfect.

i use ethernet on my main machine. my laptop that stays next to my bed is on wifi

>Hero.png
WHY DO WEB DEVS DO THIS SHIT I'M GONNA FUCKING POP A BLOOD VESSEL

i was just being explicit because most people don't know the difference

Depends on how far you are away from your router.

If you are less than 25-30ish feet, drywall inbetween, with a good router, then wifi will be on par.

Anything more and you should start looking at other options.

Do I have to plug one of these directly into the wall plug or can I use an extension cord?

What about brick wall and wooden ceiling with a shit router?

I guess an extension cord will make the connection extra shitty, but I think it should work.

Run cat 6 then, you crazy euro.

Yes it's extremely rare in comparition of 2-3 times in a hour

The fuck is cat 6?

do you even know how electricity works?

Ethernet over the powerline. Essentialy Internet in one outlet and out the other.

category 6 ethernet cable, are you fucking stupid? get the shit out of this board

Enjoy your signal leaks

> Be me
> Get some TP-Stink adapters
> Shits cash till I start reading about potential security and data leak problems
> Take an adapter over to neighbourfolks house, plug in and check
> They on my internet nao
> Sell modules on eBay, invest in an actual LAN.

If you insist on using them, use the encryption features.

You need six cat to go on that internet. It's very elite hacker's trick

No. I'm a fucking moron
see above

PowerLAN is a piece of shit
They spam all kind of frequencies with their retarded garbage because power lines arent shielded at all. Kill yourself if you actually use one of these and thus create eletromagnetic bloat in your neighborhood.
Everyone using this shit should be executed immediately.

How the fuck does that work?

>not understanding the pseudo-science of some retard

>
>
> (You)
>
>"Yeah its super reliable, i just have to unplug and replug it once a day"

Who are you quoting? I haven't unplugged mine since I got it.

Cause they are spotty at best. Depends on how your wiring is but I've had real trouble with them in the past. I ended up pulling them installing 2 wifi cards and bridging them for a second floor computer reaching a modem in the basement.

>unsecure as fuck
>unreliable
No thanks. If I was too lazy to do a simple cat 6 house wrap, I'd go with a MOCA network. Oh and most modern homes have their rj11 outlets wired with cat 5e.

Because every house in your suburb is wired up to the same fucking grid..?

You missed the point. If you live in a multiple story house, wiring to one end to another isn't exactly simple, unless you consider drilling holes in floors and wall simple; in which case you're fucking retarded to think anyone is capable of doing a clean job.

I used a set of these briefly as my dad wouldn't let me drill holes in the floor to route ethernet cables, the speeds were pretty shit so I ended up getting a wireless card instead, much faster.

What brand did you buy ? sounds like you bought shit ones.

I believe they were £20 Netgear ones.

Surprise surprise they were shit.

This
Moca works really well. 120 Mbps with shitty splitters. Change your connectors, remove unnecessary amps and 300 Mbps isn't abnormal.

I have one on an extension cord and it's fine.

It's not better than wifi, unless by wifi you mean 802.11g on a $40 router.

I have a $200 wifi router and get over a gigawatt

As long as it's better than the 54kb/s I currently get I'm happy

I have a pair of TP-Link adapters. They're a hell of a lot faster than Wifi. The only downside is the signal drops once every few hours and I have to reconnect. Its still a more stable connection than Wifi at the ass end of the house.

When you do this, do you need one, or two? I would assume two: one from router to MOCA, then one in the room from MOCA to computer.

Most homes don't have coax in every room either. Back to square one.

its set to eco mode. read the manual.

You aren't using them in a power strip are you?

Interestingly that doesn't help
Even while ping is running in another terminal, it takes almost exactly 5 seconds until things start happening:
time ping -c4 google.com
PING google.com(ber01s14-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:4008:802::200e)) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ber01s14-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:4008:802::200e): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=30.6 ms
64 bytes from ber01s14-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:4008:802::200e): icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=29.3 ms
64 bytes from ber01s14-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:4008:802::200e): icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=27.9 ms
64 bytes from ber01s14-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:4008:802::200e): icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=26.9 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 26.965/28.735/30.667/1.412 ms

real 0m8.052s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

time ping -c4 gentoo.org
PING gentoo.org (89.16.167.134) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.gentoo.org (89.16.167.134): icmp_seq=1 ttl=45 time=44.1 ms
64 bytes from www.gentoo.org (89.16.167.134): icmp_seq=2 ttl=45 time=42.7 ms
64 bytes from www.gentoo.org (89.16.167.134): icmp_seq=3 ttl=45 time=40.9 ms
64 bytes from www.gentoo.org (89.16.167.134): icmp_seq=4 ttl=45 time=41.6 ms

--- gentoo.org ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 40.966/42.376/44.161/1.200 ms

real 0m8.066s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s


I was, but now they're plugged directly into the wall
It is however next to the cables running to my router

>; in which case you're fucking retarded to think anyone is capable of doing a clean job.

Its actually pretty damn easy if you arent incompetent with tools.

Are both outlets on different circuits, or possibly bridged?

I have some on the way for my new apartment, hopefully it goes smooth for me, or I'll to sink low, and use wifi on a desktop :/

Yea I use MOCA for 150/150 mbps fiber and it works fine.

>it's actually pretty easy if you install cable for your job or have had the proper tools and training.

Kay

>What is an apartment?

thanks user, now i dont have to use wifi on my desktop. hopefully this works better

Or just having a house/duplex/townhouse on rent, applies to a lot more people than just people putting up in apartments

it's a lot easier to plug OP's pic into my wall outlet

The rooms are both in the same apartment and on the same floor I'm living in, so there shouldn't be anything in between but I can't really tell

I usually just buy 200ft of extension cord and plug these into either end and run them down my hallway

>werks 4 me

Bandwidth is worse than wired
Latency is worse than wired
Stability is worse than wired.

It's like saying you prefer being punched in the ass than the groin.

OR now hear me out, maybe you should just run ethernet directly from the router to your computer

Well if your options are WiFi or PowerLine and you have relatively modern wiring in your house/apartment.... I'll go with PowerLine thanks

why tf do you have fucking 3phase going to a residential building?

at that point why not just buy a 200ft ethernet cable? wtf man...

but why buy more cabling when I already have like 500 ft of extension cords laying around?

>Not just running Ethernet

Latency and bandwidth

Some people just have bigger power needs than others.

My mom got 3 phase as well.
She needs it for her pottery oven.