Trusted reviews of Powerline adapters?

forgotmyname

Anyone know of a trusted source for testing and comparing powerline adapters?  Google is just useless at finding them.

Just seems to give links to the same text copy/pasted to several websites or reviews of an item the reviewer has never seen
in the flesh never mind tested them properly.

I know the advertised speeds are usually wishful thinking but some actual real data would be useful and comparing several
brands would be nicer still without the "upto 2Gb" (really 2 x 1Gb ports) and they don't know if they are any good or useless
because they have never seen one or tested one.

Thanks

DullGreyGuy

The average true reviewer will have only tried one product, let alone more than 1 brand. Most buy something, use it, find its better than wifi was and so leave a glowing review without ever testing other options. 

I used to use one, went with a big name in networking, it worked well enough. Moved home, went with Mesh WIFI instead from the same brand, it works fine and as we had an upstairs/downstairs problem that are on different rings power adapters would be unlikely to work

Undervalued

forgotmyname said:

Anyone know of a trusted source for testing and comparing powerline adapters?  Google is just useless at finding them.

Just seems to give links to the same text copy/pasted to several websites or reviews of an item the reviewer has never seen
in the flesh never mind tested them properly.

I know the advertised speeds are usually wishful thinking but some actual real data would be useful and comparing several
brands would be nicer still without the "upto 2Gb" (really 2 x 1Gb ports) and they don't know if they are any good or useless
because they have never seen one or tested one.

Thanks

Not a direct answer to your question but in case it helps....

I used a set of four TP Link ones and found them excellent providing they were all plugged in to the same ring main. Plugged into a spur off the ring main was still pretty good but plugged into a different ring main (despite it being wired to the same consumer unit) was poor, although still useable.

400ixl

DullGreyGuy said:

The average true reviewer will have only tried one product, let alone more than 1 brand. Most buy something, use it, find its better than wifi was and so leave a glowing review without ever testing other options. 

I used to use one, went with a big name in networking, it worked well enough. Moved home, went with Mesh WIFI instead from the same brand, it works fine and as we had an upstairs/downstairs problem that are on different rings power adapters would be unlikely to work

Powerline adapters typically work across different rings as long as they are on the same consumer board.

The problem with comparisons is that it would only apply to the location the tests were done in. Different wiring (could all be new, but could be old, could have interference / noise on it) would give very different result.

I have got some, but rarely used these days as use a mesh network. However, when they were in use and monitored the bandwidth between them (had 4 at one point) would fluctuate massively all the time, especially when different electrical devices were running in the house, but even when nothing was changing.

These ones were before the Gb ones came out and were up to 300Mbps and would fluctuate by up to 80% across that range, typically running in the 200Mbps area when stable.

I would only consider them ion rare cases these days where a Mesh network could not be made to work.

Undervalued

400ixl said:

DullGreyGuy said:

The average true reviewer will have only tried one product, let alone more than 1 brand. Most buy something, use it, find its better than wifi was and so leave a glowing review without ever testing other options. 

I used to use one, went with a big name in networking, it worked well enough. Moved home, went with Mesh WIFI instead from the same brand, it works fine and as we had an upstairs/downstairs problem that are on different rings power adapters would be unlikely to work

Powerline adapters typically work across different rings as long as they are on the same consumer board.

The problem with comparisons is that it would only apply to the location the tests were done in. Different wiring (could all be new, but could be old, could have interference / noise on it) would give very different result.

I have got some, but rarely used these days as use a mesh network. However, when they were in use and monitored the bandwidth between them (had 4 at one point) would fluctuate massively all the time, especially when different electrical devices were running in the house, but even when nothing was changing.

These ones were before the Gb ones came out and were up to 300Mbps and would fluctuate by up to 80% across that range, typically running in the 200Mbps area when stable.

I would only consider them ion rare cases these days where a Mesh network could not be made to work.

Yes but very poorly in my experience as described in the post above yours.

spile

I’d also avoid using them apart a short term emergency. 

forgotmyname

I was hoping it would lower the latency but improving the download speed to the other PC's would be a benefit.

Tested a laptop in the locations we expect to install computers and getting 180/230 depending if it's running on battery
or plugged into the mains.  Using a cable it gets the max speed of 500+, we pay for 500 but get slightly more usually.

Watched a YT video where they said the TP-Link 2000's were slower than the 600's in the same tests.  I may try the
V1000's and see how they go.  Anyone had issues with a UPS and these adapters?  Do they generate any noise the UPS
will flag as a problem?

Thanks again.

Chickereeeee

I have the TP-link 1G version, it it worked fine all ver my house. Across ring mains, even into my detached garage (which has its own subsidiary CU). Never had issue with bandwidth (100s of Mbps). Only removed some having run Cat 6 cable in.

forgotmyname

Purchased the TP_Link AV1000 and the max speed was 84, well below the 230ish on WiFi.

Initially tried in extensions knowing that would be the worst option and it was sub 60, plugged one furthest away
from the router into the wall directly and the speed increased to 82. Plugged the one nearest the router into the wall
and that was still 82.

Last attempt was both plugs in a double socket side by side and it showed 84 max. I returned them for a refund.

Looks like I need to run some cable to get better speeds. Latency with the AV1000's was marginally better but
not enough to keep them instead of using wifi sadly.