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This hasn’t been my experience at all. I use TP-Link adapters and don’t see any ping interference or latency. I think it also has a lot to do with how in phase

This hasn’t been my experience at all. I use TP-Link adapters and don’t see any ping interference or latency. I think it also has a lot to do with how in phase your power is.

aidenn0 4y ago
Which TP-Link adapters? They don't seem to make a g.hn and the last ones of them I tried were AV1000.
- gabereiser 4y ago
  It’s the AV1000s. I don’t seem to have the issues you all are reporting with them. No packet loss. No latency beyond a reasonable 1ms. My apartment’s power lines are clean, properly grounded, and perfectly in phase I guess.
  - aidenn0 4y ago
    AV1000 worked reliably for me, but at 40mbit
  - Johnythree 4y ago
    Sorry, but no. All it takes is for a neighbour to plug in a noisy appliance to wipe out your network. The problem with P/L is that it can work, until suddenly it doesn't.
    - aidenn0 4y ago
      Really the G.hn PL modulation seems more than adequate, but the behavior when conditions change is incredibly poor; if I had time, I'd find a "sufficiently noisy" appliance, some romex and run them all together. TCP and many video streaming sites are quite good at handling variable bandwidth, but the G.hn seems to turn that into variable latency, which is terrible. The people who design these are presumably not idiots, so I'd like to know why treating noise like congestion isn't sufficient...
  - lproven 4y ago
    This. I ran a set of TP-Link powerline at my last 2 places: in both, I rented a room in shared flats (apartments). In the first I got a very poor intermittent wifi over 3 floors from my landlord's wifi: 2-5 Mb/s if that. With powerline I got a consistent 60-70 Mb/s. Yes, they needed rebooting regularly, but it was totally worth it. 2nd place, here in Prague, I bought new units, because the tech had updated. My old landlord still uses my old setup as a wifi repeater, over 4Y later. New place, my flatmates had put Ethernet across the floor, so it was in very poor shape: walked on, trapped in doors, insulation frayed, etc. Connection was very intermittent. In that place, powerline allowed me to remove the messy dangerous ugly cable and gave me a steady reliable 200-250 Mb/s connection. I think the complaints here may be from Americans who are famous for having mains power like wet string, running at half the voltage of the rest of the world. Across Europe it's all 220V, with mandatory earth (ground) pins, and every dwelling is on a separate ring main, so nothing your neighbours do affects your home and there is zero leakage. Also, electric kettles work, and as I run on tea, that's important. :-D
christoph 4y ago
I've used the TP-Link AV2000's for a few years, they're OK for me, sure I'd rather have proper hard wired ethernet, but I also prefer not punching holes in walls/ceilings all over my house. It's ridiculous they get marketed as 2000Mbit though, best I've ever got is close to 200Mbit and I'm in a fairly ideal set up for it. Also, never mix lower adapters like 500's, as this seems to cap the whole network at the lowest common denominator, even when they're not in use.
adhesive_wombat 4y ago
I use the TP-links too, but sometimes, every few weeks, they fall over and one of them needs a power cycle. I put them on the same circuit so they don't have to traverse the consumer unit to talk to each other. I could have put Ethernet in, but adding a wire under the floor was vetoed in the interests of not making a mess. Don't listen to them! Run that Ethernet!
- mhandley 4y ago
  I had the same issue, except it was usually every couple of days they'd need replugging to resync. Only regret from running ethernet recently (yes, it was messy) is that I didn't do it 10 years ago.
Johnythree 4y ago
It very much depends how much noise is on your power line. It can work just fine one day, then be appalling bad the next day.

This hasn’t been my experience at all. I use TP-Link adapters and don’t see any ping interference or latency. I think it also has a lot to do with how in phase your power is.

aidenn0 4y ago

Which TP-Link adapters? They don't seem to make a g.hn and the last ones of them I tried were AV1000.

gabereiser 4y ago
It’s the AV1000s. I don’t seem to have the issues you all are reporting with them. No packet loss. No latency beyond a reasonable 1ms. My apartment’s power lines are clean, properly grounded, and perfectly in phase I guess.
- aidenn0 4y ago
  AV1000 worked reliably for me, but at 40mbit
- Johnythree 4y ago
  Sorry, but no. All it takes is for a neighbour to plug in a noisy appliance to wipe out your network. The problem with P/L is that it can work, until suddenly it doesn't.
  - aidenn0 4y ago
    Really the G.hn PL modulation seems more than adequate, but the behavior when conditions change is incredibly poor; if I had time, I'd find a "sufficiently noisy" appliance, some romex and run them all together. TCP and many video streaming sites are quite good at handling variable bandwidth, but the G.hn seems to turn that into variable latency, which is terrible. The people who design these are presumably not idiots, so I'd like to know why treating noise like congestion isn't sufficient...
- lproven 4y ago
  This. I ran a set of TP-Link powerline at my last 2 places: in both, I rented a room in shared flats (apartments). In the first I got a very poor intermittent wifi over 3 floors from my landlord's wifi: 2-5 Mb/s if that. With powerline I got a consistent 60-70 Mb/s. Yes, they needed rebooting regularly, but it was totally worth it. 2nd place, here in Prague, I bought new units, because the tech had updated. My old landlord still uses my old setup as a wifi repeater, over 4Y later. New place, my flatmates had put Ethernet across the floor, so it was in very poor shape: walked on, trapped in doors, insulation frayed, etc. Connection was very intermittent. In that place, powerline allowed me to remove the messy dangerous ugly cable and gave me a steady reliable 200-250 Mb/s connection. I think the complaints here may be from Americans who are famous for having mains power like wet string, running at half the voltage of the rest of the world. Across Europe it's all 220V, with mandatory earth (ground) pins, and every dwelling is on a separate ring main, so nothing your neighbours do affects your home and there is zero leakage. Also, electric kettles work, and as I run on tea, that's important. :-D

christoph 4y ago

I've used the TP-Link AV2000's for a few years, they're OK for me, sure I'd rather have proper hard wired ethernet, but I also prefer not punching holes in walls/ceilings all over my house. It's ridiculous they get marketed as 2000Mbit though, best I've ever got is close to 200Mbit and I'm in a fairly ideal set up for it. Also, never mix lower adapters like 500's, as this seems to cap the whole network at the lowest common denominator, even when they're not in use.

adhesive_wombat 4y ago

I use the TP-links too, but sometimes, every few weeks, they fall over and one of them needs a power cycle. I put them on the same circuit so they don't have to traverse the consumer unit to talk to each other. I could have put Ethernet in, but adding a wire under the floor was vetoed in the interests of not making a mess. Don't listen to them! Run that Ethernet!

mhandley 4y ago
I had the same issue, except it was usually every couple of days they'd need replugging to resync. Only regret from running ethernet recently (yes, it was messy) is that I didn't do it 10 years ago.

Johnythree 4y ago

It very much depends how much noise is on your power line. It can work just fine one day, then be appalling bad the next day.