Powerline: some questions...

[luclucas]

Hello community ,

I'm planning on buying a Powerline to have internet in my room. The wifi signal is not too strong... After asking to someone here in Tom' Hardware, I understood that Powerline may be the best option for me.

Perhaps, I have some questions about this technology wich I hope you could help me on .

If the powerline has two ethernet ports, and I plug two ethernet cables from my router, will I get faster speeds?


Also, do you know some tips for powerline adaptors?

And finally could you recommend a some models that work well?: My internet speed is less than 100mbits/s and I pretend doing some online gaming.

Thank you very much for your attention and have a nice day !! 😉

 

[juanrdp]

If the powerline has two ethernet ports, and I plug two ethernet cables from my router, will I get faster speeds?

Usually you would need special network infaestructure and/or configuration to be able to use two ethernet ports as one, o would not recomend that. It would never be so easy as plug the cable and voila...

Also, do you know some tips for powerline adaptors?

The speed depends on the elements between the two powerlines, never use mid elements, conect them directly to the plug, dont have them in diferent phases... those are the more evident.

And finally could you recommend a some models that work well?: My internet speed is less than 100mbits/s and I pretend doing some online gaming.

That would depends on the county you purchase them i suppose, in my country the TP-Link models could be purchased as low as 15-20€ and are usually good enought. I would recoment a 500 Mbps models as they are not much more expensier (over 35€), the TL-PA4010 for example.

 

[luclucas]

Wow, thank you juanrdp, awesome, well done, answer! You deserve of course the best solution.

 

[juanrdp]

Wow, thank you juanrdp, awesome, well done, answer! You deserve of course the best solution.

Np, its a pleasure to help.

Only be sure that if you have 2 or more phases on the house the Plc's are on the same phase, they would work over some elements like a residual current circuit breaker (with degraded performance for each mid element) but would never work in diferent phases.

 

[luclucas]

I suppose that when you say that it should be connected in the same phase you mean that the powerlines must be plugged in the same electrical circuit.

 

[juanrdp]

I suppose that when you say that it should be connected in the same phase you mean that the powerlines must be plugged in the same electrical circuit.

More or less, its a bit more dificult.

Sometimes (and in some countries is more common than in others) you could have more then one phase and neutral on a home, depends on the country, instalation due expected load, etc... you could have more than one phase (two phases is very old for for example once i lived in a house with a tri-phasic installation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_electric_power).

A lot of times you use single-phase loads with only one of the phases of a tri-phasic installation and have some electrical (think like one floor for example) wiring to one phase, and another wiring to other phase.

It's no common, but could happend, depends on the wiring of the house.

 

[luclucas]

I suppose that when you say that it should be connected in the same phase you mean that the powerlines must be plugged in the same electrical circuit.

More or less, its a bit more dificult.

Sometimes (and in some countries is more common than in others) you could have more then one phase and neutral on a home, depends on the country, instalation due expected load, etc... you could have more than one phase (two phases is very old for for example once i lived in a house with a tri-phasic installation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_electric_power).

A lot of times you use single-phase loads with only one of the phases of a tri-phasic installation and have some electrical (think like one floor for example) wiring to one phase, and another wiring to other phase.

It's no common, but could happend, depends on the wiring of the house.

Ok thx again . I think I got it. Thanks for advertising. I hope this will work 😉

Anyway, the plugs will be on the same wall, same floor, so maybe it will be the same phase...