Warning about powerline adapters
It's all down to personal preference IMHO 
We recently had fibre installed
With due deference to SWMBO I have neatness built in to my arrangement. I installed a double power socket near the master socket and now have a all my telecoms in one corner near the front door. This includes OR modem, PN router, LightwaveRF link, cordless phone base station. The rest are connected through a Solwise piggy unit which as well as being a homeplug acts as a filter for the switch mode power supplies
This homeplug feeds three other homeplugs for desktop, smart television and through a four way - blueray, rasberrypi and sky box.
We sync at a rock solid 30Mbps and download at 28 near the router. So the connection doesn't seem impacted significantly
We recently had fibre installed
With due deference to SWMBO I have neatness built in to my arrangement. I installed a double power socket near the master socket and now have a all my telecoms in one corner near the front door. This includes OR modem, PN router, LightwaveRF link, cordless phone base station. The rest are connected through a Solwise piggy unit which as well as being a homeplug acts as a filter for the switch mode power supplies
This homeplug feeds three other homeplugs for desktop, smart television and through a four way - blueray, rasberrypi and sky box.
We sync at a rock solid 30Mbps and download at 28 near the router. So the connection doesn't seem impacted significantly
Peter, it's not personal preference. There are a lot of these homeplugs that chuck out buckets of interference. It all depends on the brand and the model. The specs. for these devices are grossly inadequate and Radio Amateurs in particular have been complaining about them for years!
Some are "lucky" in that they have no problem or the impact on their service is minimal, it doesn't mean that the next door neighbour isn't suffering from them though
Some are "lucky" in that they have no problem or the impact on their service is minimal, it doesn't mean that the next door neighbour isn't suffering from them though
Ops, started something 
That wasn't the intention....
I don't have a particular axe to grind here. I decided to try them because they were very cheap (on sale at PC World) and easy to try without difficult ethernet cable runs in the house. I was aware they might cause an issue but missed it completely at first because the issue only showed up when transferring reasonable amounts of data. I took a punt and it din't work out well for me. As I said, other people may get on fine with them. I am going to return them to the shop so all I have lost is a couple of hours messing about.
I can't provide an adequate explanation of why it impacted me and not some others because I don't have the expertise. I suspect some combination of the model of adapters and my house wiring and the very long telephone line I have. Out of curiosity I tried another brand that a friend had kicking about and these had a very similar result.
What I do know is that in my circumstance there was a definite issue and that it would have been very difficult to track down without a router supporting DSLstats or similar. I found it because I was looking for it and was slightly dubious of the adapters from the start and because of Anotherone's words of caution.
I do have some sympathy for other people who are trying to use the radio spectrum legitimately if it is impacted by these devices and judging by my own experiences and some reading I have been doing I have decided that I am not going to use them. Of course people will need to weigh up the information and make their own choice and I respect their decision and in turn I would hope they respect mine. And just in case anybody is wondering, I am not a radio amateur and I don't work for GCHQ
BW, BM.
That wasn't the intention....I don't have a particular axe to grind here. I decided to try them because they were very cheap (on sale at PC World) and easy to try without difficult ethernet cable runs in the house. I was aware they might cause an issue but missed it completely at first because the issue only showed up when transferring reasonable amounts of data. I took a punt and it din't work out well for me. As I said, other people may get on fine with them. I am going to return them to the shop so all I have lost is a couple of hours messing about.
I can't provide an adequate explanation of why it impacted me and not some others because I don't have the expertise. I suspect some combination of the model of adapters and my house wiring and the very long telephone line I have. Out of curiosity I tried another brand that a friend had kicking about and these had a very similar result.
What I do know is that in my circumstance there was a definite issue and that it would have been very difficult to track down without a router supporting DSLstats or similar. I found it because I was looking for it and was slightly dubious of the adapters from the start and because of Anotherone's words of caution.
I do have some sympathy for other people who are trying to use the radio spectrum legitimately if it is impacted by these devices and judging by my own experiences and some reading I have been doing I have decided that I am not going to use them. Of course people will need to weigh up the information and make their own choice and I respect their decision and in turn I would hope they respect mine. And just in case anybody is wondering, I am not a radio amateur and I don't work for GCHQ
BW, BM.
And I on my part don't know how I have avoided problems seen by others.
@bogmonster you will find if you do a search on these fora many threads discussing this subject
I would have argued that I was using homeplugs from a reputable supplier and not Chinese knockoffs but you got yours from PC World so they would best quality meeting all applicable specs - wouldn't they?
@bogmonster you will find if you do a search on these fora many threads discussing this subject
I would have argued that I was using homeplugs from a reputable supplier and not Chinese knockoffs but you got yours from PC World so they would best quality meeting all applicable specs - wouldn't they?