Hi I'm getting nbn installed this week and as its in the garage I wish to run it a specific way. Would this work?
NBN box to powerline downstairs.
Upstairs:
I'm sure the powerline to router to pc would work but would it work for the ps4?? I'm thinking it should as its almost like a direct modem to ps4 connection. Any advice please?
Thanks in advance
It seems that, as with most things, personal mileage varies.
I live in a rather long house with Cable ultimate internet connection running consistently at 100Mbs.
For the past 2 years I have been running a 4 port Netgear powerline connection from my router to the living room at the end of the house to connect my Apple TV, AVR, TV and Foxtel.
I haven't checked the speeds but the streaming quality across all devices is far better than what I am able to get with wireless, even using an AC1900 WiFi router.
Do you have green lights on your power line adapter? Or Amber?
Mine varies between Amber to red. Though it is just in the next room.
I agree, if you have it working well for you, go you!
If the rooms are on different circuits, that will affect performance considerably.
Usually green lights on all ports that are operating although occasionally get a flickering yellow with the Apple TV (although it doesn't affect the HD stream).
Any reason for CAT 5e? CAT 6 is cheap and faster (gigabit ethernet).
Cat 6 is definitely the way to go. Dunno why I mentioned 5e in particular. Also, almost all routers are gigabit capable these days.
I also found power line adapters to not be so great (these were Belkin adapters, running the latest available firmware). I'd get intermittent slowness and packet loss, so things would be fine then not, or work and then get very flakey. All that went away when switching to cat cabling. Maybe we have bad electrical wiring, or appliances that generate interference, or something else, but if you have any choice I'd go straight for cat cabling, it's just so much more reliable.
1 concur with hashy, run cat cable
Cabling from building to building is not recommended due to ground loops.
So you should look at Fibre between shed and home.
And if not that, a dedicated (ie no other connections)5GHz Wireless bridge from Garage to house, then an Access point in the house for WiFi distribution and Ethernet cable to wired devices and possibly another WiFi point upstairs.
From the NBN BOX you can go to the powerline adapter and to the computer and the PS4 although it will drop out, your most likley better setting up a router off the powerline adapter near the PC and then either a powerline adapter of a differnt brand to the PS4 or an ACCESS point next to the ps4
Thanks all. Would love to have cat6 cables around the house but unfortunately not very cost effective(had a few quotes and they are saying at least $200 a network point). Some have even refused to do it as its too hard.
Thanks for your help!
My case: NBN socket is at very far side of the house & devices on the other side have very weak wifi signal. I want to move the wifi modem away from nbn box, ideally leave it at the center of the house, without running long messy cable. I thought powerline can solve this.
I have tried NBN box-powerline & modem router-powerline on the same power circuit, just in different rooms but it doesn't work properly. Internet light on modem flashing green but actual internet speed is very slow & intermitent. I believe NBN box-powerline would be the AP & modem-powerline is End Point?
I've seen people use powerline mostly to connect modem router & devices. Is it different setting to connect NBN box with modem using powerline?
Make sure the powerline stuff is compatible with multiple points.
I had an issue with 2 pairs and could only get 1 or the other working and I realised what was going on then I figured out that it can't be done.
Cat6 is good but cat 5e should be the cheaper of the 2 and see what they charge.
I can't really see your house so I am only guessing.
Only thing to look out for - power line adapters are not as great as they are advertised to be.
I have a smallish house, and even then I get a bandwidth of only about 20 mbps (across rooms). I use one for the fetch tv box and it can barely play anything decently. This is in contrast to my apple tv that is connected to the internet through an airport extreme which holds a solid 100+mbps connection with the router (same distance away).
Just thought you should be aware.
The best option would be to run a cat 5e cable.