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Powerline can have major problems, depending on the quality of the electric wiring. In addition to that latencies are bad.
by iptrans 6y ago
Powerline can have major problems, depending on the quality of the electric wiring. In addition to that latencies are bad.
- jon-wood 6y agoI once had powerline networking which somehow ended up joining my next door neighbour’s powerline network. That was a bizarre evening of trying to work out why my connection was sometimes fine, while other times unusably slow - turns out I was occasionally getting DHCP responses from next door’s router, and unsurprisingly the available bandwidth across RF interference between two power sockets back to back on opposite sides of a wall leaves a lot to be desired.
- tuananh 6y agothat's funny. how did you find out?
- jon-wood 6y agoThankfully the neighbour did freelance networking, so the domain being handed out to DHCP clients on their network matched the business name. It turned into quite a friendly relationship with them, I hadn't previously known that they were in the tech world as well.
- greenknight 6y agodepending on the electrical wiring, latencies may not be that bad. Ethernet is usually <1ms.... powerline adapter i use is about 2ms.... wifi to the same router, is 40ms. 2ms is much more manageable for me than 40ms
- cillian64 6y ago40ms wifi is surprisingly bad. I'm getting 2ms +- 1ms to my router (macbook pro -> ubiquiti AP -> switch -> router) over 5GHz wifi. My WFH setup is on wifi and I've never had any throughput/latency/reliability issues that made me want to run a cable.