Powerline Ethernet Usability

[Nolanl83]

The Router is on our ground floor, I am right above it and a few feet away but the Ethernet switch is below in the basement, meaning I need to get ethernet from the basement to my room, tried drilling 7-8 holes, hasn't worked and before we routed it outside the house wanted to look into Powerline.

 

I was thinking of this kit https://www.bestbuy.com/site/tp-link-tl-pa7017-kit-av1000-gigabit-powerline-starter-kit-white/6423289.p?skuId=6423289 

To use for streaming and having a more consistent connection, my wifi is fine, but I've had issues previously with spotty connection/lag in-game seemingly because I was on Wi-Fi

I'm currently getting 260 down 6 up* This should be more like 260 down 12+ up but I noticed I began getting throttled, dropped nearly instantly from 12-6 in October.

 

Wanted to get some opinions on the Usability and if it will allow me for a more consistent connection and more reliable speeds in a good amount of scenarios

[ProjectBox153]

It depends on the wiring in your home. I have never had great luck with it, but experiences vary. The last time I used a set I was able to get speeds of about 2.5Mb/s down and 1Mb/s up on the client device. Wi-Fi would have been a lot better, but I didn't have a spare adapter at the time. How old is your home and the wiring in it?

[Brooksie359]

Had issues with wifi doing the same thing at one of my old houses and ended up using a powerline adapter and the lag went away. I think the latency was about the same but really the problem I was having was packet loss through wifi and it was totally fixed through the powerline adapter. I would say that it is worth a try. If it doesn't work you can always return it. 

[Brooksie359]

11 minutes ago, ProjectBox153 said:

It depends on the wiring in your home. I have never had great luck with it, but experiences vary. The last time I used a set I was able to get speeds of about 2.5Mb/s down and 1Mb/s up on the client device. Wi-Fi would have been a lot better, but I didn't have a spare adapter at the time. How old is your home and the wiring in it?

Yeah I have used it twice and both times it worked great but one was in a house built in the 90s and the other was in campus apartments feeding ethernet from one of the bedrooms to the living room as there were no ethernet ports in the living room and we couldn't drill holes in the walls in the apartment and if we ran it along the floor the door to the bedrooms wouldn't close. 

[Nolanl83]

13 minutes ago, ProjectBox153 said:

It depends on the wiring in your home. I have never had great luck with it, but experiences vary. The last time I used a set I was able to get speeds of about 2.5Mb/s down and 1Mb/s up on the client device. Wi-Fi would have been a lot better, but I didn't have a spare adapter at the time. How old is your home and the wiring in it?

Mhm, So attempting it and using a return policy might not be a bad idea?