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Another way to get something supposedly more stable than wifi when ethernet cabling is not feasible is to use your house's electric wiring and run data through
by frankjr 3y ago
Another way to get something supposedly more stable than wifi when ethernet cabling is not feasible is to use your house's electric wiring and run data through that. There are kits which offer data rates in gigabits (although based on a few reviews I read the actual speed vary greatly).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-line_communication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-line_communication
https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/powerline/tl-pa7017p-kit https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/powerline/tl-pa70...
- velcrovan 3y agoThe few times I have run into these, the actual performance is terrible. Wifi is almost always better.
- LeanderK 3y agoit's been 10 years but I had great success running internet into the basement this way. Wifi was terrible down there (router was in the upper floor) and there wasn't an existing ethernet cable going down. Of course it wasn't perfect but it was trivial to set up and worked.
- chpatrick 3y agoSame for me, my parents house had no WiFi signal downstairs or Ethernet in the walls. A powerline wifi extender kit worked out of the box and is fast enough for their needs.
- markofzen 3y agoI had a similar issue until I limited the amount of wire between the connections. For example I put one right by an outlet under my breaker box, then another in my garage right where the subpanel is and it improved dramatically.
- Symbiote 3y agoMine is, in theory, 2Gb/s. In practise, nearer 50Mb/s. It also causes interference on my amplifier, although it's a cheap amplifier. About once a year one of the adaptors loses its connection to the other adaptor, and instead connects to someone else's setup in this apartment building.
- tiberious726 3y agoThat shouldn't be happening, and is a massive security/privacy issue. Your power line devices should be configured to use an encryption key unique to them.
- freedomben 3y agoYep, GP should do a factory reset on both, and pair them. If it stil happens after that, replace them with models that don't have this problem!
- Symbiote 3y agoI was pretty horrified when I worked out what had happened. It's from TP-Link, and supposedly does pair and create a secure connection: https://www.tp-link.com/sg/home-networking/powerline/tl-wpa8630p-kit/ https://www.tp-link.com/sg/home-networking/powerline/tl-wpa8...
- orev 3y agoHow does interference caused by the radio waves have anything to do with using encryption?
- freedomben 3y agoSame. It was great 10 years ago, but wifi speeds at this point make the wired through electric lines painfully slow. Even with the occasional wifi hiccup, wifi is almost always better.
- Dalewyn 3y agoAside from the terrible and inconsistent performance, the bigger problem is the sheer amount of electrical noise introduced into the line which can adversely affect electrical appliances and devices. Personally, I just don't find all the drawbacks worth it.
- david422 3y agoI tried this. It kinda worked. It also apparently leaks a lot of ... data? Interference? Something. Wifi seems to work just as well for us.
- throwawaaarrgh 3y agoIf your neighbors use it too, you could end up on each other's network
- HungSu 3y agoServeTheHome just published an article about powerline networking TLDR: It's still bad. https://www.servethehome.com/over-a-decade-later-powerline-av-networking-still-sucks-tp-link-netgear/ https://www.servethehome.com/over-a-decade-later-powerline-a...
- bpye 3y agoWhen I was a uni student in an old house with thick walls these were worth it. My bedroom had terrible WiFi - power line networking got me a few hundred mbps but the latency suffered.
- rootusrootus 3y agoI never had good luck with that. Even on the same circuit, as instructed. The performance and reliability is really quite bad.