Gigabit Powerline Adapters

andyk1985

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Hello, im moving to a brand new development in the next few weeks and im going to have my office on a different floor to the master socket where the router will be set up. Wireless may reach to this room but I would assume the signal will not be great plus only some of my laptops have true Wireless N cards that work over 300mb speeds. The router I have is gigabit via the physical ports and duel band on the wireless with a function that lets you connect to both the 2.4 and 5ghz network at the same time to create a 900mb connection (none of my laptops have fancy enough wireless cards to connect to both networks at once so capped at a single 5ghz network and of those only 2 of them actually achieve speeds of 150mb + even when sat next to the AP)

Unfortunately the building is too late in the build to have network ports built into the walls (I have a business from home so no floor boxes before you ask)

My next thought rather than making holes in the celling to feed cables was Powerline adapters. At the moment there will be a next to useless internet connection of 1-3mb as the cabinets aren't enabled for Fibre yet but im told they will be in the next few months....

However I tend to need to transfer a lot of data between machines internally hence the gigabit networking.

Any recommendations on gigabit or as near to gigabit Powerline adapters? As its a brand new build the wiring should be top notch.

Many thanks
 
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Lots of reviews of gigabit powerline out there and I don't have one so can't speak to it.

But... Whether you have new construction or old a local cabling person can pull Ethernet through your walls and add in wall plates. If you're only running it to one room it shouldn't cost much more than a good set of powerline.
Lots of reviews of gigabit powerline out there and I don't have one so can't speak to it.

But... Whether you have new construction or old a local cabling person can pull Ethernet through your walls and add in wall plates. If you're only running it to one room it shouldn't cost much more than a good set of powerline.
 
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