What are the best powerline adaptors 500mbps or less

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footbrake4life

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Hey guys, I need to do something about my internet connection. When someone is watching netflix in my living room it sucks all the bandwidth from my gaming rig to a point where my email will not even load. Both smart tv and PC are currently wireless. I know that if I am to buy a powerline that a gigabit port is the best. I'm not looking to spend a ton of money (maybe $65-70 tops). On a great day I get 4mbps download on speedtest.net and I just need the best I can consistently get.

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This is a good buy right now - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166086&cm_re=powerline_ethernet-_-33-166-086-_-Product

I have two friends that have tried them - you don't get 100% of the max speed on any of these adapters, but you should be able to get 300Mbps without issue - so unless you have Google Fiber....this should give you 100% of what you are paying for. Both of my friends get right around 300Mpbs....be careful of the ones that say, "500Mbps" - and only have a 10/100 interface....
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This is a good buy right now - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166086&cm_re=powerline_ethernet-_-33-166-086-_-Product

I have two friends that have tried them - you don't get 100% of the max speed on any of these adapters, but you should be able to get 300Mbps without issue - so unless you have Google Fiber....this should give you 100% of what you are paying for. Both of my friends get right around 300Mpbs....be careful of the ones that say, "500Mbps" - and only have a 10/100 interface....
 
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This is a limitation of most Powerline networking gear. They only use the 10/100 Ethernet ports.

To get the latest ones with Gigabit ports would push him above his budget by quite a bit, and for what he wants to do will not give him any benefit.
 
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I was actually surprised at the specs - and trying it on a friend's apartment - it worked as advertised. With Time Warner Cable 300Mbps internet - he was getting almost 320Mbps on speedtest. On ethernet by the router, he was getting 328Mbps....

I was so impressed, I recommended to a second friend with similar results.
 
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Well damn... Its worth a try for $45. I will comment back on this with my results when I get it.
 
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That is extremely surprising to get speeds in that range. The speed test on small netbuilders show quite a different result. It shows that you would have to go to av2-500 devices most often advertised as 600m devices to get speeds even above 100m on average.
Its not like rosewill makes there own chips or something so I am going to bet they use the same chips as the some of the other vendors in this chart. You would think if these were better than all other brands it would be in a chart like this.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/powerline-charts/bar/90-down?see=AVG
 
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I used speedtest.net for the testing method - not sure what they used for testing - but I bet it was more exhaustive as compared to my testing. If you can get > 100Mbps constant over the powerline adapters, virtually everything you do on the net will be at "premium speed".....
 
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You can get the best adapters which you want on http://www.cnet.com/topics/networking/best-networking-devices/power-line-adapters/. This is the perfect place to get any kind of software or electronic product.
 
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As long as I am getting a better speed than my crappy wireless adapter that I have had for too long than I don't care if I get 100mbps or 300mbps because the service we have through our ISP is less than 50mbps download anyways
 
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