Difference Between AV and AC & Powerline Networking Kit Recommendation

[iPaperKillz]

Hi, I am looking to get a pair of Powerline Adapters to use in my house as I want to get the Fibre 1Gbps Connection from my living room to my work area. The straight line distance is ~10m (going through the walls). I was looking at TP-Link's range of Powerline Adapters and I saw that speeds are measured through AV___ (e.g. AV500, AV1200), while routers usually use AC___ (e.g. AC1200, AC1750). May I know what's the difference and get a recommendation on what kit to get. My budget is around $60 - 70 USD, if it's higher you can still go ahead and list it. My connection is a Fibre 1Gbps and my router is currently some random one that I have laying around but I plan to get an Asus RT-AC56U or AC56S (somewhere in that price range).

 

[RealBeast]

The fastest powerline adapters currently are the TP-Link 1200 Mbps AV2 MIMO, and they get around 250-300Mbps. The only way to get gigabit is to use Ethernet cabling.

HERE is a good site for comparing powerline adapters with fairly accurate real world speeds.

 

[bill001g]

First realize these are all fancy marketing numbers that nobody gets. If you rate a gig port the way they do you would call it 2gig but a ethernet port can actually send 1g and receive 1g all at the same time. Wireless and powerline are all half duplex and very subject to interference.

You will notice many of the so called av500 devices come with 100m ports. That is almost a admission by the manufactures that they can not even run at 100m. The test results show about 80m. The av1200 version get in the 250 range. Wireless 802.11ac test to be somewhat faster getting closer to 300-350m but that requires a special nic in the end devices that is not very common...it needs 4 antenna.

For file download you generally will get better total throughput on wireless. For games powerline is much better because it is less subject to interference. Now the big "but" is there is no way to really predict which is going to be better in your case because difference in houses and environments.

If you really need closer to gig speeds you only real option is to run ethernet cable.