Powerline Adapters for Live Streaming Video Games

Bushhhy

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So hopefully some of you have some insight on what im planning on doing here, as I have tried to find solutions to the problem I am facing, and this seems to be the end solution.

So first I bought a box of 1000ft of CAT5e(as I planned to sell most of the cable in patch cords to friends and such). We hired a contractor, and after scouting out the home for a few days, figured out that the way that the house was built, that it was not possible to run a wire from our router to the room that we needed ethernet. So that plan was out of the way.

Next we thought of running an ethernet cord along the baseboard, but Mother did not like the idea, and shut that one down.

So the last idea I have is using Powerline adapters. This seems like a promising solution, but I do not know if it can handle the amount of internet usage I will be using. I stream on a platform called Twitch. Its for gaming, and you send live video of you playing the game to the site for others to watch. This is a great source of income for me as I am partnered, and make money from ad revenue and such. Although the problem comes when i must stream at over 4000kb/s constant to avoid screen tearing and frame drops.

I was wondering if these Powerline adapters would be capable of handling this speed? I stream for over 5 hours a day, so they would be used constantly. At night I upload youtube videos and that uses a lot of bandwidth also. Basically, I am hoping that these adapters will be a good alternative to a Ethernet cord. My internet speed is 69down/5up, and use most of my upload during the daytime.

Thanks to anyone who gives me input here. I really need to find a solution as I am tired of sitting in this basement with no air conditioning with a computer running hot and making this place a sauna. Thanks in advance to you all!


ALSO. PLEASE recommend some good powerline adapters. I can spend about $150 on this to make sure that I have no problems.
 
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Powerline adapters run the connection through your house wires, so it gives you better latency then wireless ... so to speak. What you need to do is get a good quality adapter that lets you use all your connection, as most adadpters work in 'bits' not 'bytes'. Just explaining if you didn't know but this is how internet companies lure people in by saying up to 80mbps ! but really 8 bits = 1 byte and t hey are using 'bytes' and really you only get up to 10megabytes which is 80mega bits.
So to make sure i chose a 1200megabit powerline which means you can have download speeds of up to 150mega bytes in future :) you will get max internet performance from it :)
link to powerline...

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Powerline adapters run the connection through your house wires, so it gives you better latency then wireless ... so to speak. What you need to do is get a good quality adapter that lets you use all your connection, as most adadpters work in 'bits' not 'bytes'. Just explaining if you didn't know but this is how internet companies lure people in by saying up to 80mbps ! but really 8 bits = 1 byte and t hey are using 'bytes' and really you only get up to 10megabytes which is 80mega bits.
So to make sure i chose a 1200megabit powerline which means you can have download speeds of up to 150mega bytes in future :) you will get max internet performance from it :)
link to powerline:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122673&cm_re=powerline_adapter-_-33-122-673-_-Product
 
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Bushhhy

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I was just making sure, because you know, marketing schemes will lie and promise things that are not true. Just needed to make sure that I would not have a problem with the upload portion. Thank you very much for your help.