CPL adapters? Why and how?

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aspri

aspri

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Hello,

I'm trying to understand how the CPL adapters work. So I have a Wifi box which is used by everyone in the house.

Now, whenever I'm playing online games such as BF4, and I'm alone in the house I'm having good ping, never more than 60-70ms. But when more than 3 PCs/phones are connected, my ping goes crazy. Literaly, from 60 to 300 to 150 to 260. Very unstable.

I read couple of articles on how to reduce ping by changing settings in internet supplier page (ip address thing), by downloading placebo softwares. No result.

I read something about CPL but I need more advices since I don't understand them clearly. If I use a CPL adapter, do I cut connection to other users??

Thanks.
 
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Do you mean power line adapters ?

Your problem can be 2 things. You and the other machines are exceeding your internet bandwidth. Nothing will fix this other than buying more from your ISP. The other is you are interfering with each other on the wireless. Wireless is a half duplex connection. Everyone "in theory" waits to transmit until nobody else is transmitting. Unfortunately the device can't always hear each other and the more total devices you have the more chance both will detect nobody transmitting at the same time and decide it is a good time stomping all over each other.

Wireless works sorta ok for a single machine playing games but games like BF4 are extremely sensitive to variations in the ping (ie jitter) and the...
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Do you mean power line adapters ?

Your problem can be 2 things. You and the other machines are exceeding your internet bandwidth. Nothing will fix this other than buying more from your ISP. The other is you are interfering with each other on the wireless. Wireless is a half duplex connection. Everyone "in theory" waits to transmit until nobody else is transmitting. Unfortunately the device can't always hear each other and the more total devices you have the more chance both will detect nobody transmitting at the same time and decide it is a good time stomping all over each other.

Wireless works sorta ok for a single machine playing games but games like BF4 are extremely sensitive to variations in the ping (ie jitter) and the more machines you have the more jitter you get and if you get a lot of active machines you will see actual packet loss.

Powerline networks are a option to have the wireless issue. You can think of it as a ethernet cable that uses the power lines in the house. They still compete for the total internet bandwidth with all the rest of the users but the router does a much better job of sharing between users than you get on wireless. In general if you have enough internet bandwidth putting your machine on a powerline connection should reduce the jitter when other machines are using the wireless.
 
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