powerline adapter and/or wifi wich is best for ping

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WINTERLORD

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I live out in the sticks and wondered wich would be better for my ping time.
my isp is dsl and I get 12mb's
would wifi or a powerline adapter kit be better for my ping?

also with a powerline adapter I have a 200mbs adapter fairly cheap one from netgear would a better quality or higher mbs make any difference in ping time as I don't see my one computer as maxing out the 200mbs limit only other things that run onb network that I know is at most 2cell phones that use wifi
 
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Ping time and bandwidth are not really related. Ping mostly is related to the distance to the site you are using. Bandwidth is mostly how fast you can transfer data. Increasing the bandwidth will not reduce the distance to the location.

It doesn't matter for a lot of reasons in your case. First your internet is really slow compared to either wireless or powerline so even if you could combine them you still can not go faster than your internet speed. Then it is not even possible to combine the 2 interfaces. You would need very special router and even then there is no protocol that will combine ethernet and wireless.
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I saw this on another thread:
"My own experience with power line adapters is that WiFi works better. I use one for my Sling box because it doesn't have WiFi and it works good enough but for gaming the power line adapter caused me some random lag spikes issues that I don't have over WiFi."
 
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But the same thread later on had another comment:
"My experience of powerlines is great! They are so much better than wifi (I currently live in a 100+ year old house with thick walls) I can stream 1080p video happily to my bluray player from my NAS on the other side of the house. "

I guess it depends on how noisy your electrical environment is vs how much your walls block or reflect wifi signal.
 
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hmm is there anyway to test the noise over the powerline? also if I where to try a better wifi unit to compare my dsl box ahas built in wifi that might be junk would I use a cat5 cable to connect a new wifi device hardwired from box or use dsl modem/wifi and bridge/repeat singnal toi a better wifi unit
 
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You main problem is the answers to your questions all depend on your house. This is one of those the only way to get a true answer is to try it.

In general you will get about the same ping time to your router on both. It will be very small in most cases. The major difference is wifi is subject to much more interference which means the ping will be a lot more inconsistent.

The speed of the connection does not affect the ping time. Even the 200m powerline units should be faster than your internet. Still if you have not purchased the powerline units the newer av2 units that claim 600m or 1200m are not much more expensive. They are faster which won't really matter in your case but they work better in some houses that have poor wiring.

The ping times only really matter to games anyway, almost all other traffic has no issues with the ping variations in a wireless connection.
 
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how bout another question, if I have a powerline kit and have wifi ac on my computer will I be using both connections at same time to help with getting a better ping I have a program vcalled game first wich is some sort or networking manager
 
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Ping time and bandwidth are not really related. Ping mostly is related to the distance to the site you are using. Bandwidth is mostly how fast you can transfer data. Increasing the bandwidth will not reduce the distance to the location.

It doesn't matter for a lot of reasons in your case. First your internet is really slow compared to either wireless or powerline so even if you could combine them you still can not go faster than your internet speed. Then it is not even possible to combine the 2 interfaces. You would need very special router and even then there is no protocol that will combine ethernet and wireless.
 
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bill001g

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It just appears that the bandwidth and the delay are related but it is much more complex. It would be like saying people who have google fiber to their house at 1gbit have better pings because it is 1gbit. The reason actually is that signals travel at the speed of light on a fiber but only about 2/3 the speed of light on copper. There are many other factors but all they do is add to the confusion so it is best to keep it simple and look at ping as a measure of distance not affected by the bandwidth you buy.
 
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