Ethernet cable or powerline adapter (homeplug)

[Odysseysounds510]

Hello everyone,

I'm having a delimma. I bought a xbox one and the online is not good on mmos...I do a speed test and I'm getting 24mbps and 5.75 Gb dload but my latency is around 110.
However, it fluctuates randomly.

My set up is an ac router with a netgear wifi extender I live in a single family home and my router is on the other end of the house. Should I but a 100ft cat5e cable or homeplug? Would it improve my performance?

Or would the ethernet be slow due to its length?

Thank you.

 

[kanewolf]

An ethernet cable will be the best possible local networking option. 100ft of ethernet cable is still an insignificant delay.

 

[iXeon]

ethernet cabling is somehow interrupt able more then 50ft but it's very dependable to the environment i mean a straight cable might not get delay but once you get a curve to the cable it will be unstable.the use of the AV adapters are vary according to the cabling the building has . the best conditions you could get connections as fast as 300Mbps. in your case the xbox one needs a maximum of 50 Mbps bandwidth for all you want to do in your network and that is the speed you could get by both ethernet cable and AV ethernet adapter.

 

[kanewolf]

I have worked in MANY datacenters and seen the worst possible ethernet cabling and have never seen "unstable" connections because of "curves" in the cable. Bad termination will cause problems but how the cable is run ... NO!

 

[why_wolf]

Ethernet will work over 100m (328ft) of straight length. So you are well within the usable length. Turns (specifically sharp ones that crimp the cable) can degrade the single but will not kill the cable. That will only happen if you somehow managed to break the internals of the cable, pretty difficult to do without physically cutting the cable.

For your use it really depends on how the cable will be run. If you can actually open up the walls and run it through there in a permanent instillation that would be the absolute best you could do. If you are just running it along the floor that will work perfectly fine too, however be aware of the tripping danger of having all the cable strung across the house. An in-between method would be to buy some cable nails (nails with these little plastic clips on them the size of the Ethernet cable) and string the cable along the top of your wall between the wall and ceiling joint. It's out of the way and usually not that noticeable.

Homeplug (or power line adapters) are inherently unstable. Depending on how your house electrical is wired up they can either work, be unstable, flat out not work. There is now way to know which without buying a kit and trying it. I really only recommend using them if WiFi is no good and using Ethernet is impossible for some reason.

 

[Corwin65]

If your "curved" cabling is crimping or damaging the cable, then it's not really an ethernet issue is it?