Will this work for a cheap solution?

[GeorgeKellow]

I bought a powerline adapter from BT yesterday. It only has one ethernet port and I use that for my xbox. I have ordered this. I plan to plug in my pc to it as well. I have gone for an 8 port switch because the price differance was not a lot more.

 

Will this set up work well for home use? What could I add to make it better?

 

My internet speed is meant to be 30 up and 30 down but we normally get about 20 up and 15 down  

[ARikozuM]

Is it possible to wire the house for Ethernet?

[GeorgeKellow]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Is it possible to wire the house for Ethernet?

Nah. My mum would go along with it. My step dad is a prick 

[Lurick]

Should work just fine. You'll be limited by the fact the switch is only 100Mbps but since you only get a max of 30/30 that shouldn't have any impact either.

[ARikozuM]

9 minutes ago, GeorgeKellow said:

Nah. My mum would go along with it. My step dad is a prick 

Is it his house or hers? /s

 

It is relatively easy to drop Ethernet in houses. You have to go into the attic or comms panel outside and find where the cables enter. You can drop the lines along the others and add/change wall plates where needed.

[GeorgeKellow]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

Is it his house or hers? /s

 

It is relatively easy to drop Ethernet in houses. You have to go into the attic or comms panel outside and find where the cables enter. You can drop the lines along the others and add/change wall plates where needed.

Its his. 

 

He keeps banging on about how he earns £150k + a year for working in the field of work but he says it wont make a difference compared to wifi, which is horse shit 

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, GeorgeKellow said:

Its his. 

 

He keeps banging on about how he earns £150k + a year for working in the field of work but he says it wont make a difference compared to wifi, which is horse shit 

If you drop Ethernet, you can add access points for WiFi that lead directly to the router/switch for reduced latency overall with gigabit Ethernet to all the static devices.

[brwainer]

22 minutes ago, GeorgeKellow said:

I bought a powerline adapter from BT yesterday. It only has one ethernet port and I use that for my xbox. I have ordered This. I plan to plug in my pc to it as well. I have gone for an 8 port switch because the price differance was not a lot more.

 

Will this set up work well for home use? What could I add to make it better?

 

My internet speed is meant to be 30 up and 30 down but we normally get about 20 up and 15 down  

Your "this" link is broken, it has an extra "http//" in it. Anyway, that switch is fine. It would be better to get a gigabit switch for not much more cost, but you would be hard pressed to get more then 100Mb over the powerline (with my 600Mbps rated AV2 units, I get 80Mbps) so the difference between a 100Mb and a gigabit switch would be minimal. Even the 100Mb is three times your possible internet speed, but a gigabit switch means that local transfers can be faster.

[GeorgeKellow]

3 minutes ago, brwainer said:

Your "this" link is broken, it has an extra "http//" in it. Anyway, that switch is fine. It would be better to get a gigabit switch for not much more cost, but you would be hard pressed to get more then 100Mb over the powerline (with my 600Mbps rated AV2 units, I get 80Mbps) so the difference between a 100Mb and a gigabit switch would be minimal. Even the 100Mb is three times your possible internet speed, but a gigabit switch means that local transfers can be faster.

Fixed the link