Wireless AC 5ghz vs Ethernet Cable

[Pipinhot]

Hi yas,

 

I'm moving to a new house and where they are installing the Fiber connection to the wall will be the furthest distance from my room.

I was think my best option is to get an AC router and a beefed up AC receiver.

 

Firstly I can't go PCIe cards because, well no room, its a mirco case.

Second, cables are a no go, as much as i want all the Internets. it will be going though dining and living rooms.

 

So i'm thinking AC1900 Nighthawk, and the netgear AC1200 A6210 Receiver. I can get both For $250AUD

 

I will be the only person on the 5GHz band and everything else on the the 2.4.

 

Is this best possible scenario after Hard wire?

[blu4]

Powerline adapter?

[Pipinhot]

power line is usually slower than wireless ac i'm quite sure.

[blu4]

How do you utilize your network at home? Do you have network storage or shares? Do you just want to connect to the outside world?

 

A power-line adapter can do 350Mbps. In UK the fastest ISP at the moment is Virgin Media that can offer 150Mbps. If you get an AC router that can do 1.2Gbps you are effectively wasting your money because you will never use it to its full potential. If the only thing you want to do is connect to the internet you are just fine with a power line adapter unless your ISP does 1Gbps.

 

Also elaborating on the 5Ghz thing, if your room is furthest away from the wireless source, getting a 5GHz connection will just make it worse since the more things the signal has to get through, the worst the performance will be. I have a 2.4/5 router in my room and my phone is connected to the 5GHz usually. If I go p00p I completely lose the wireless unless I switch to 2.4Ghz. I hope you get what I mean. It's power line for you man.

[Steven9595]

A power-line adapter can do 350Mbps. 

There are plenty of Gigabit powerline adapters...

[srolle]

if you have coax outlets for cable in each room, i've always made good use of wired MoCA adapters @100mbps.

[ofr057]

There are plenty of Gigabit powerline adapters...

yeah i would go powerline.

 

i havnt tired 5ghz wireless but i think its range drops off quicker

[blu4]

There are plenty of Gigabit powerline adapters...

I haven't checked the power line maker in some time now- thanks for updating my knowledge on that. I still doubt that it will be anywhere close to 1Gbps in real life environment

[Yamosu]

If you want stabillity and speed I would go with ethernet.

[Pipinhot]

Linus did a Powerline vs AC video, Showing Powerline cant utilize full network speed and tho pings are slightly more stable, they are also higher.

It also shows a Far away AC connection can achieve the same ping times as direct wired.

 

Not sure if you have seen this.

https://youtu.be/Oxum9TZ11-M?t=6m12s

 

We will be on a 100mbps connection, My computer is the hub of the house, it has our entire itunes library installed on it, going out to 3 apple TV's We have 1 TV capable of 4k Netflix and two others in FHD.

These will be in constant use.

[Theo]

powerline is terrible if your house is old.

Im using 5ghz wifi over powerline anyday, if the reception is strong enough you wont have any issues

[skywake]

Not sure if you have seen this.

https://youtu.be/Oxum9TZ11-M?t=6m12s

 

We will be on a 100mbps connection, My computer is the hub of the house, it has our entire itunes library installed on it, going out to 3 apple TV's We have 1 TV capable of 4k Netflix and two others in FHD.

These will be in constant use.

Sounds about right. For powerline generally you don't get speeds faster than AC but it will work over a much longer distance. In that test they were limited by their internet speed and all of the AC tests gave them their full 53Mbps except for the one outside. You can fairly safely assume it was actually capable of more than that. The powerline tests, and I can only assume it was AV200 from the numbers, hovered at around 40Mbps at all distances. Which is about what I've seen from my powerline kit.

 

Really though, if you just want 100Mbps? As long as you don't rely on the wireless built into your Apple TV and get a decent AC-class wireless media bridge or something. And if you get one of the higher end powerline kits? AV600 or whatever it is. You should get above 100Mbps fairly comfortably. And out of those two options AC will run faster closer to your router/AP and powerline will keep chugging along at just above 100Mbps way out into your back shed. There's no one solution, pick the best tech for the job