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IGNORE! Power Line Adapter!

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Heey LinusTechTips,

I recently moved to a new house and im loving everything about it but I must say I have to make an expection for my WLAN speeds... My WLAN speeds are constantly spiking between 0.10 mbps and 20 mbps (megabits not bytes for the not so experienced). As you can assume this is highly annoying, its not so bad for casual browsering and watching videos but it is nearly impossible to play decent in online video games because of the constant DC's and ping spikes. My parents do not want me  to run an ethernet cable through the house so Powerline it shall be!

 

I would like a decently priced adapter with 2 ethernet ports if possible. My maximum speed is 50 mbps up and down. If possible a built in wireless extender would be nice, the wireless speeds are caused by my router and the busy neighbour hood (I will find a way to tune down the range of the extender so I can have fast wifi in my room, this is assuming it extends via the ethernet cord and not by connecting to wifi first).

 

Thanks alot!

 

EDIT: Forgot to add that I might purchase this one if the crowd approoves: 

TP-LINK TL-WPA4220 KIT 300 Mbps AV500 Wifi Powerline Adapter startset

 

 

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A much better solution is to flash the firmware on a spare home router and it becomes a wireless network bridge.

Not a networking guy :/ thing is we don't have a spare router lying around. And I am very sure LAN is more stable than WLAN right? And I would fix the wifi problem since its receiving is via the ethernet cable and not from the routers wireless thingy.

 

 

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Not a networking guy :/ thing is we don't have a spare router lying around. And I am very sure LAN is more stable than WLAN right?

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/reuse-an-old-router-to-bridge-devices-to-your-wireless-network/

 

I am not much better at networking... I followed this guide and got it working in about 10 minutes. those powerline adapters are quite unstable as well as being electrically noisy. They interfere with radios quite badly.

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http://www.cnet.com/how-to/reuse-an-old-router-to-bridge-devices-to-your-wireless-network/

 

I am not much better at networking... I followed this guide and got it working in about 10 minutes. those powerline adapters are quite unstable as well as being electrically noisy. They interfere with radios quite badly.

This would be useless, my problem starts at my router giving out horrible wifi signal. So I would have my wifi extended but it will still be unstable as hell!

 

 

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change to a different band. I work IT now and a horrible signal can be caused by a cheap and nasty router, putting it behind things, or having it on the same frequency band as other devices. Another wireless solution is a cisco aironet 1100 series access point. I have a rotten router as well and using a dedicated AP helped immensely. this AP that I am using can be found for only 12 bucks used on amazon.

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change to a different band. I work IT now and a horrible signal can be caused by a cheap and nasty router, putting it behind things, or having it on the same frequency band as other devices. Another wireless solution is a cisco aironet 1100 series access point. I have a rotten router as well and using a dedicated AP helped immensely. this AP that I am using can be found for only 12 bucks used on amazon.

Already changed band to the least used one. Trust me it really is the router I went to my ISP's forum and even people living in the middle of nowhere had wireless issues (While not signals interfeard). Maybe I can disable wifi on the current router, my a cheap one with decent wireless reviews, disable wifi on current router and hook the new router up via a cable and have that send out wireless, then buy a cheap extender for reception on upper levels.

 

EDIT: Router is called Experia Box v8 btw

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