Ethernet powerline adapters - easy solution for somebody I reckon!

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nickchallis92

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Hi all,

I live in a student house whereby there are 2 laptops and 2 desktops. We have a router at the bottom of our house and the two laptops connect wirelessly. I have always used a USB wireless adapter to connect my desktop pc to the router and it worked fine until it started disconnecting under heavy load.

In response to that, I bought two ethernet powerline adapters, which is what my other flatmate (who is even further away from router than I am) does without any problems. Now i've connected it all up, it seems to be that everyone's internet is now incredibly inconsistent, even the laptops. When I revert back to my terrible USB adapter, everything works smoothly again.

I cant think of any reason for this. Any ideas?
 
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Not sure. I've been using Powerline adapters with good results, although the last pair (500 Mb/s) had one that drops from time to time, so I won't continue to use it. This pair works with my 200 Mb/s pair too, one of which actually has four ports on it.
Right now I have the working 500Mb/s PL adapter attached to my router, and the the two 200Mb/s adapters in another room (wired on a different circuit too, on the other side of the breaker panel), and it's working well.
Another alternative is to go with dual-band wireless. The really cheap wireless stuff works, but after testing a couple of nice dual-band routers and a dual-band card, I won't go back to cheapies. Throughput is almost as good as wired, going through a couple of walls. The USB wireless adapters tend to be the slowest, because their antennas often suck. If yours has an external antenna, that may not apply in your case.
If you can, you may get much better wireless results if you can elevate the router to an upper floor of the house.
 
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