What Powerline adapters to buy ?

hi guys can i have some recommendations as to what powerline adapters to buy and use, as my ones that i have now from 3-4 years ago are restrictiong my download to 20meg and not the full 80meg, thanks for any information

Stoofa wrote:
If wiring is poor then buying "faster" adpters isn't really going to help.
If you're limited to say 60mb, then buy 200, 500 or higher - you're still going to be limited.
I purchased some Devolo 500mb adapters (went for this brand as I wanted power pass-through, so I could plug something into the adapter and also wanted a second WAP, which one of the pair of powerline adapters doubles up as).
I get around 220mb according to the diagnostic tools.
I think you maybe surprised what a difference using faster adapters has on your speeds. You say that you get around 220mb with the 500mb adapters, well in that case you may get around 110 to 115mb on the 200mb adapters, which is a big difference.
The new 650mb adapters has new technology that allows higher speeds if you have poor quality wiring or a great distance than the 500mb ones do.

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I had BT Infinity 2 installed this week and was happy to see that I was getting 75Mbps down and 17Mbps up via ethernet cables. However, I really want a cableless solution. I bought a TP-Link TL-PA211KIT 200Mbps twin pack, had no problem setting it up, but my speed has dropped to 52Mbps down and 14.6Mbps up.
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As you have found, unfortunately the connection synch speed of powerline adapters does not equate to their actual throughput. There is a lot of error correction overhead that means actual throughput is much less than synch.
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Make sure all adapters have the Same Encrpyption Key and Type.
You can try and get them to work (it's worth a try). Comtrend aren't brilliant at providing the actual standards they use. If you can't get it to work following the instructions, it might be better buying 3 or 4 of the same type of adapter - it is easy to configure them using the guides.
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I thought 3 or 4 powerline adapters could be set to work together - various persons on web say it works ok??
Sorry this isn't a solution - more of a problem
My problem is (apart from being daft) - I have a BT3 hub with powerline adapter operating a youview box, but I can't get wi-fi in that room(house extension) Can i use it or another"cloned" adapter to connect some kind of extender. I recently bought a TP link TD-W8961ND to use as a remote access point for wi-fi but it doesn't have WAN port so I guess it's the wrong thing.
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