Is the ethernet connector on the bottom of these plugs or the top - i.e. Do you need a lot of clearing from the plug socket to the floor in order to plug these in?

Unlike DT, it's difficult for me to attribute blame.
I ran another test after rebooting the router and switching off two same-ring-main co-existing Zyxel pairs;
Then ran the TP-link 1200 file transfer with only the TP-Link 1200 on the circuit:
It looks like the file transfer is 20% faster maybe, down to 1m 22s from 1m 43s.
Ring main wiring is not recent.
Not often mentioned; one advantage is the powerline is harder to sniff than one's wifi.
Good job I spelt that last word correctly. The reason I got into Powerline is that the Virgin Wifi has never been very good for me through several Virgin cable speed and router upgrades.

Cheers for that. That strangely seems to be about the same as your Internet, though I'd expect it to be faster. Is there something limiting the hdds or the powerline connection like other traffic whilst doing that file transfer? Or does it seem to be the speed limit of the powerline kit/your wiring?

Can these be 'wired' connected to BT infinity smart hub (hub 6) then it sent to other plug plugged in 'wired' into laptop. Or shall I stick with wireless? I don't want to move rig to router and can't move router to rig.

Cheers op, ordered :smile:

I am familiar with the purpose of powerline :wink: My broadband speed is rated to about 60mbps, it is a fibre connection. In theory, I should be getting more than 7mbps on my server, but the bottleneck could be that there is a high level of interference due to to daisy-chaining extension leads or limits of the basic £5 powerline I purchased. That's a good point, I do a lot of file transfers across the network, I have a Plex media server running on a windows 7 virtual machine that pulls media from a network share attached to a different VM and those files can be quite large. Exporting a virtual machine to an OVF template can also take a long time in addition to uploading large datastore files. The speeds I get on WIFI for outgoing network traffic are actually a lot better, which is why I think I'm getting a bottleneck. I'm a networking "power user" so I think I could potentially justify the upgrade for my use case.

Price has gone up

FFS I should have done my research.

I don't need this at all.

So essentially, one of the devices plugs directly into your modem broadband via ethernet and the other Dlink is used to connect the ethernet port to the necessary device.

I have LAN router points all over the house.

Ffs

I do similar gaming as you with a quick ping as priority.

It's completely down to your environment. The quality of your home wiring vs wireless. Unfortunately the answer is trial and error with a lot of speed tests inbetween.
My ps4 is faster on wifi than using powerline but late night the powerline is faster.

If you have a gigabit power line connected to a 5 port gigabit router switch.
Is the 1000mb split between the 5 ports making it 200mb each?

Is that how it works?

Are these good for online gaming? I play competitively, but wired in my current situation is impracticable. If I could achieve 95% of wired performance, that'd be great. I use WIFI, good WIFI hardware and I do get around 150MBPS on my PC using WIFI from the next floor up in my home (I pay for 200MBPS Virgin Media).

I have not looked into power-line adaptors before. Every millisecond of latency means a lot to me and I value low ping very highly. On that basis...

1) Is it better than WIFI? (when it's 5M+ and going through walls, though thin walls).
2) Is it susceptible to drop connection? (since it runs through power lines, doesn't it?). If I lost connection for a few seconds during a game, I'd disconnect and get a loss.

Hmm, wondering if this will make any material difference to my current speeds. I get about 7mbps down through a 200mbps powerline, however, it is through like 3 extension leads daisy chained.

Could anyone show what LAN speed they get with these or similar powerline models e.g computer to computer (not dsl throughput)?

Copy:
941 MB (987,246,592 bytes)
1.43=103 seconds
Speed Upstairs Desktop > This Laptop downstairs
9,584,918 Bytes/Sec

I have an old 200mb powering setup. Would I notice improvement by getting this (50mb virgin cable)?

Virgin Media Rationing -
It was much faster via the last UK hotel I stayed in!
Utube I start just before zzzzzzz's.

Not directly related to this product... but what the hell is going on with that upload speed? Seems super, super low.

I've user Powerlines for many years (Belkin, the TP-Link and now TrendNet).

They work really well, far better than wifi, apart from a subtle issue that affects the latter two - random disconnects every week or so. The fix is to run a continuous ping to the router in the background, which I do now and have never had a disconnect since.

Good price for these by the way, especially as they have gigabit ports (my current AV500 ones only have 100meg ethernet so of course can't transfer data anywhere near the touted 500mbps)

Not this specific brand.

Is it me or do these things pack up all the time? I've been through 2 sets of these both just stop working, strange???

Could anyone show what LAN speed they get with these or similar powerline models e.g computer to computer (not dsl throughput)? Thanks

are these wifi ?

Wonder if these speeds make any difference when most routers connect at 100Mbps over Ethernet?

If you buy two packs of these can you use three a "receivers" and one at the back of your main router? If so do you have to adjust anything to work them this way?

Many thanks

OK ordered,but can someone now tell me what these do?:confused:

I already have some BT extenders. Anyone know if the two are compatible?

Worked perfectly for me - as steam link was playing up on wired to wifi set up, these in place removed all stutter , buffering and loss of quality . Do find every now and again you might need to reset them (like once every two months) but for the price very happy

Do these def work? Ive wasted so much money on these before

I ordered... But I don't know why....

What exactly is the benefit... I've bought WiFi repeaters etc and had no.luck

Got 5 of these linked up to a Solwise Powerline 1200 Piggy, very quick but not stated speed as they never are. (If you think you will get 1000mps from these don't be upset when they get nowhere near) Great product though. Fast enough for me and cheap

You never get your top broadband speed using these powerlines anyway

Voted absolute zero cold..
Wouldn't touch them even if they were paying me to take them! Have had so many problems with connection speeds, and these were found to be the culprits, and my house is only 10 years old! I'd definitely go with TP-Link or if you can afford it Devolo Gigabit. Expensive but well worth it in the end.

Got those a few months ago when they were 5% off. Pretty happy with them. Live in an old house and I get around 400Mbps between all three of them. Never had to restart yet (although we have had some a few power cuts since I got them).

I bought four of these to replace some old TP-LINK 500AV powerline adaptors. Really not impressed so far - throughout appears to be significantly slower! It would seem that these D-Link adaptors are far more susceptible to poor electrical wiring. I switched back to the TP-Links and throughout shot back up!

Ordered. Thanks op

Thanks. Almost bought these on Thursday. Heated.

Thanks ordered.

Do I need to replace my Devolo 500 with these - just got Sky Fibre Max and not sure whether my Homeplugs are effecting speed - honest question ?

Heat bro
Got a BT one with passthrough though it is not gigabit.
Good find.

Dammit...just bought these last week for £20! They are good though. Heat

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Swore I'd never buy a dlink product again after a rubbish router in 2003 but very tempted at this price to extend my power line network. Does anyone know if these will plug and play with some sumvision 1000Mbps ones?

these are very good! Perfect for BT TV :smile: I think I need to pick another up at this price :smile:

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