Connect your console to your router without a wire?

Ergates

Carrot007 wrote: »

Potato, potato again? And obviously that uses a wire techincally. (You do need wires for your electric!)

Given that the OP doesn't know the "difference" between Wifi and "Wireless LAN", I think giving both of the common names for the technology is reasonable.

Also, I'm going to guess that the problem the OP has with a wired connection is the thought of running an ethernet cable from the router (quite probably in a different room), not the wire itself. Given that the console has to be wired in for electricity it will have to be near an electrical socket, so would also be appropriately situated for a powerline LAN adaptor.

hugh1988

Powerline LAN adaptors aren't great for gaming, but better old wifi thats for sure. Best result would be wireless-AC router and usb adapter for the xbox. (both need to be 'wireless-AC' aka WiFi 5)

red_eye

Amazin said:

Are there any device available on the market that can allow you to connect your Ps4/Xbox/PC to the router without using a wire? I know most of you will say wireless wifi but online game will not be as good. So I'm looking for something like wireless LAN. Hope that make sense because I don't know what they're called!

Powerline adaptor I think your after
you still need cable to connect console to power line and router to powerline, your home ring mains will connect the two power lines together.
bit expensive though I paid £60 for a 150mbs and the 500mbs cost over 100. They never give you rated speeds though and might not work if you have old wiring (Red black green iirc) I heard switching on white goods can cause issues if you have the new colour wiring (brown blue yello/green) your good to go 

Takmon

red_eye said:

Amazin said:

Are there any device available on the market that can allow you to connect your Ps4/Xbox/PC to the router without using a wire? I know most of you will say wireless wifi but online game will not be as good. So I'm looking for something like wireless LAN. Hope that make sense because I don't know what they're called!

Powerline adaptor I think your after
you still need cable to connect console to power line and router to powerline, your home ring mains will connect the two power lines together.
bit expensive though I paid £60 for a 150mbs and the 500mbs cost over 100. They never give you rated speeds though and might not work if you have old wiring (Red black green iirc) I heard switching on white goods can cause issues if you have the new colour wiring (brown blue yello/green) your good to go 

Powerline Adaptors are terrible and should only be used as a last resort if no other connection can be made. Even Wi-Fi works better and is faster if you have devices with the up to date hardware.

red_eye

Takmon said:

red_eye said:

Amazin said:

Are there any device available on the market that can allow you to connect your Ps4/Xbox/PC to the router without using a wire? I know most of you will say wireless wifi but online game will not be as good. So I'm looking for something like wireless LAN. Hope that make sense because I don't know what they're called!

Powerline adaptor I think your after
you still need cable to connect console to power line and router to powerline, your home ring mains will connect the two power lines together.
bit expensive though I paid £60 for a 150mbs and the 500mbs cost over 100. They never give you rated speeds though and might not work if you have old wiring (Red black green iirc) I heard switching on white goods can cause issues if you have the new colour wiring (brown blue yello/green) your good to go 

Powerline Adaptors are terrible and should only be used as a last resort if no other connection can be made. Even Wi-Fi works better and is faster if you have devices with the up to date hardware.

That’s what I though at first but I brought a set when on offer for my gaming rig I was getting 7MB/s downloads on steam and uplay, also streaming blu ray rips from my htpc with no issues WiFi gives me 30mb/s which is 3.75MB/s 
I have now routed Ethernet and now get 9MB/s and the power plugs are being used to connect virgin box to my network.
so depending on your wiring they are not that bad they have their place and as with WiFi you don’t get the full speed of your connection

Takmon

red_eye said:

Takmon said:

red_eye said:

Amazin said:

Are there any device available on the market that can allow you to connect your Ps4/Xbox/PC to the router without using a wire? I know most of you will say wireless wifi but online game will not be as good. So I'm looking for something like wireless LAN. Hope that make sense because I don't know what they're called!

Powerline adaptor I think your after
you still need cable to connect console to power line and router to powerline, your home ring mains will connect the two power lines together.
bit expensive though I paid £60 for a 150mbs and the 500mbs cost over 100. They never give you rated speeds though and might not work if you have old wiring (Red black green iirc) I heard switching on white goods can cause issues if you have the new colour wiring (brown blue yello/green) your good to go 

Powerline Adaptors are terrible and should only be used as a last resort if no other connection can be made. Even Wi-Fi works better and is faster if you have devices with the up to date hardware.

That’s what I though at first but I brought a set when on offer for my gaming rig I was getting 7MB/s downloads on steam and uplay, also streaming blu ray rips from my htpc with no issues WiFi gives me 30mb/s which is 3.75MB/s 
I have now routed Ethernet and now get 9MB/s and the power plugs are being used to connect virgin box to my network.
so depending on your wiring they are not that bad they have their place and as with WiFi you don’t get the full speed of your connection

If you have a decent Wi-Fi adaptor and a decent router you can get faster speeds than any real world powerline adapter test i have seen. I get over 260Mbps when doing file transfers over my network on Wi-Fi on one of my computers and the adapter that i have has gotten over 900Mbps in real world tests during reviews. 

red_eye

Takmon said:

red_eye said:

Takmon said:

red_eye said:

Amazin said:

Are there any device available on the market that can allow you to connect your Ps4/Xbox/PC to the router without using a wire? I know most of you will say wireless wifi but online game will not be as good. So I'm looking for something like wireless LAN. Hope that make sense because I don't know what they're called!

Powerline adaptor I think your after
you still need cable to connect console to power line and router to powerline, your home ring mains will connect the two power lines together.
bit expensive though I paid £60 for a 150mbs and the 500mbs cost over 100. They never give you rated speeds though and might not work if you have old wiring (Red black green iirc) I heard switching on white goods can cause issues if you have the new colour wiring (brown blue yello/green) your good to go 

Powerline Adaptors are terrible and should only be used as a last resort if no other connection can be made. Even Wi-Fi works better and is faster if you have devices with the up to date hardware.

That’s what I though at first but I brought a set when on offer for my gaming rig I was getting 7MB/s downloads on steam and uplay, also streaming blu ray rips from my htpc with no issues WiFi gives me 30mb/s which is 3.75MB/s 
I have now routed Ethernet and now get 9MB/s and the power plugs are being used to connect virgin box to my network.
so depending on your wiring they are not that bad they have their place and as with WiFi you don’t get the full speed of your connection

If you have a decent Wi-Fi adaptor and a decent router you can get faster speeds than any real world powerline adapter test i have seen. I get over 260Mbps when doing file transfers over my network on Wi-Fi on one of my computers and the adapter that i have has gotten over 900Mbps in real world tests during reviews. 

So your WiFi does 260Mbps and your powerline reviewer has got over 900Mb.
You can get faster power line adapter I’ve seen 1500Mbps when I got my 500Mbps.

mute point WiFi, power line and Ethernet all have it’s place. For me I get faster speeds with powerline then WiFi.
From what I gather WiFi it’s not about getting a decent router there are many standards and each standard has a max range, Speed etc. and then you have issues with too many devices on WiFi network 

Takmon

red_eye said:

Takmon said:

red_eye said:

Takmon said:

red_eye said:

Amazin said:

Are there any device available on the market that can allow you to connect your Ps4/Xbox/PC to the router without using a wire? I know most of you will say wireless wifi but online game will not be as good. So I'm looking for something like wireless LAN. Hope that make sense because I don't know what they're called!

Powerline adaptor I think your after
you still need cable to connect console to power line and router to powerline, your home ring mains will connect the two power lines together.
bit expensive though I paid £60 for a 150mbs and the 500mbs cost over 100. They never give you rated speeds though and might not work if you have old wiring (Red black green iirc) I heard switching on white goods can cause issues if you have the new colour wiring (brown blue yello/green) your good to go 

Powerline Adaptors are terrible and should only be used as a last resort if no other connection can be made. Even Wi-Fi works better and is faster if you have devices with the up to date hardware.

That’s what I though at first but I brought a set when on offer for my gaming rig I was getting 7MB/s downloads on steam and uplay, also streaming blu ray rips from my htpc with no issues WiFi gives me 30mb/s which is 3.75MB/s 
I have now routed Ethernet and now get 9MB/s and the power plugs are being used to connect virgin box to my network.
so depending on your wiring they are not that bad they have their place and as with WiFi you don’t get the full speed of your connection

If you have a decent Wi-Fi adaptor and a decent router you can get faster speeds than any real world powerline adapter test i have seen. I get over 260Mbps when doing file transfers over my network on Wi-Fi on one of my computers and the adapter that i have has gotten over 900Mbps in real world tests during reviews. 

So your WiFi does 260Mbps and your powerline reviewer has got over 900Mb.
You can get faster power line adapter I’ve seen 1500Mbps when I got my 500Mbps.

mute point WiFi, power line and Ethernet all have it’s place. For me I get faster speeds with powerline then WiFi.
From what I gather WiFi it’s not about getting a decent router there are many standards and each standard has a max range, Speed etc. and then you have issues with too many devices on WiFi network 

I don't have any powerline adpators because they are not very good at all, i'm saying that in real world tests the Wi-Fi adaptor i have for my PC got over 900Mbps in a test by a reviewer and i can get 260Mbps in my house and could get more if i upgraded my router to a better one.
The claimed speeds on powerline adapters are nowhere near achievable in the real world and even ones that claim to be 2000 Mbps are not very fast at all in the real world. So they should always be considered a last resort.