• BURN@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s a few caveats to this. I had a good set of powerline adapters that still ended up with worse performance than a usb wireless dongle.

    If the outlets are in different circuits or you have a house with old wiring there’s a good chance they won’t work

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      Granted I’ve only used it in 2/3 houses but they’ve always given me the best speed, at least in the past 5-10 years. They used to be much worse if you’re basing this on old experience. And also the oldest house I used them in only got 2MBps so it wasn’t exactly hard for them to get to top speed. My current place isn’t exactly new wiring and the copper cables still get my max speed of 11MBps.

      Yeah you won’t get the full experience of gigabit connection through copper wall cables but I’ve never lived in a place with fast enough WiFi for that to matter. I much prefer a cable free house, I have a power cable going to my server in a cupboard and I really hate it, wish there was a power socket in there.

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        That’s fine if you’re simply trying to max out your net, but for large internal file transfers EoP are a nuisance vs GbE.

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        Depending on the model, and your electric network, you might get some disconnects though. Had that at my parents years ago, ended up doing exactly what the meme is