I only semi-recently started deploying multiple AP's, which would have helped (but there was no open source software to do so, before the recent DAWN software o

I only semi-recently started deploying multiple AP's, which would have helped (but there was no open source software to do so, before the recent DAWN software on OpenWRT). But my heavens, powerline networking has been a massive salvation for me. I've never seen it go beyond 200mbps for any real run I've had. Often the link in these shitty big row-houses I've lived in has resulted in more like ~40mbps. Those numbers sound awful. But I'll take it any day, in these wifi noisey spaces. Having reliable <2ms latency with absolutely no drop outs has been an absolutely killer advantage. The powerline networking has so much less variability, so much less jitter & chaos than wifi, even very complex multi-drop wifi. I might get more throughput over wifi, but it comes with far far higher base latency, and will fall to shit multiple times a day. Powerline's reliability has been one of the best upgrades I've ever made.