Current Events > How are those powerline ethernet things?

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My friend keeps telling me to get off my shitty wifi, and use that instead.
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My wifi doesnt reach into my basement and I got one of those.
But it is not 100% stable and does not have the same speed compared to directly hooking stuff to my router. I dont know if that depends on my wiring or something else.
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yikes. Probably still more stable than wifi.
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Ive been using one for years and it works well enough. Definitely more reliable than wifi in some cases like yours but it will be slower than a direct connection like the other guy said. That said, the speed is still fine to do most anything unless you're downloadinh something huge.
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Pretty much what everyone else has said. I've experienced instants of disconnection but it's generally stable enough in my home, especially since there are wifi deadzones here. I never tried gaming on it before though.
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Damn my friend had an extra set lying around and let me try it. So far no good. Not a lot of outlets for me to choose from. Was able to get from 2mbps to 3.5 which is crap compared to the 11 I'm getting from wifi.
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depends on the wiring of the house really. I use mine for online gaming and have a stable connection when gaming. When it works I get about 25-37ms of ping. Now if ATT can just fix their shitty service so I'm not running 100 ping at certain times of the day.
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I use a 100 foot Ethernet cable and I love it
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mine works reasonably well

i have 100mb internet and when i use the powerline i get about 70mb

it's gone as high as 90 with the powerline i think

It partially depends on your house. If you have good, stable circuits, you'll have a much more reliable experience than a house with crappy wiring would.
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I'll take a wired connection any day of the week.
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The router is located in the living room which is next to the kitchen so there's a lot of noise from the TV and all the kitchen stuff. I'll try moving the router tomorrow and see how that does.
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