Are Powerline Adapters any good for PC gaming?

XxDaBombGamerxX · Mar 17, 2015

I was wondering if Powerline adapters are any good for PC Gaming because right now I use wifi and I always loose connection so are powerline adapters any good?

kanewolf · Mar 17, 2015

Usually better than WIFI. More consistent than WIFI although not significantly faster from a total bandwidth perspective.

jimpz · Mar 17, 2015

They are also dependent on the electrical wiring in your house. Newer wiring tends to be better. Older and much 'modified' wiring can slow it down.

USAFRet · Mar 17, 2015

Depending on your house wiring, probably better than WiFi.

Anything other than direct Cat5e to the router is up for debate.

InvalidError · Mar 17, 2015

The biggest factors with powerline networking is the wiring between devices, whether they are on the same phase, how much noise your appliances put on the line and how much filtering there is on all the stuff plugged in along the way. Things like the X2 caps in devices' EMI filters can add substantial attenuation at the higher frequencies used by the networking adapters.

How well it will work can vary drastically from outlet to outlet.

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