Whats the difference between AV500 and AV1000 in a powerline adapter?

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carmopizza

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My wifi router is on the opposite side of my house and I don't get very good internet. I have researched and found "Powerline Adapters". I am interested in purchasing this one: http://amzn.to/2wpznw3. I noticed that there is not a big price change from AV500 and AV1000 so I thought why not go with AV1000? But I do not know what AV500 or 1000 is so what should I know before buying AV1000? Does it have to do with what router or modem I have?
 
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Do not buy anything less than an AV2-1000 powerline adapter, they are far superior to the earlier models. While they don't actually get anywhere near gigabit speeds they often run over 200Mbps with greater reliability by using the grounding plug (so using all three socket pins on the wall) and employ MIMO.

THIS is IMO the best and most accurate site on the Internet for comparing and evaluating PL adapters.

edit: the Tp-Link pair that you are looking at are excellent, I generally get around 250Mbps on the 6 or 8 pair that I have installed and IMO for $45 you would be less than sane to get anything less. Your modem and router are irrelevant to the adapters that you use, all standard routers will work with any pair.
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Do not buy anything less than an AV2-1000 powerline adapter, they are far superior to the earlier models. While they don't actually get anywhere near gigabit speeds they often run over 200Mbps with greater reliability by using the grounding plug (so using all three socket pins on the wall) and employ MIMO.

THIS is IMO the best and most accurate site on the Internet for comparing and evaluating PL adapters.

edit: the Tp-Link pair that you are looking at are excellent, I generally get around 250Mbps on the 6 or 8 pair that I have installed and IMO for $45 you would be less than sane to get anything less. Your modem and router are irrelevant to the adapters that you use, all standard routers will work with any pair.
 
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Found this and decided I couldn't say is better:

500mbps is not duplex, thus it is 250mbps in each direction as a theoretical maximum. PowerLine typically gets much less... Say 30-90mbps on an AV500. The AV1000 or 1200 would probably double your performance-- you would need to make sure you have a fully gigabit network to take advantage of speeds above 100mbps.
 
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