Been using this i am a content creator on twitch did some looking around i never knew this was a option at all my speeds are now 100 up 100 down thats Good for gaming online on my gaming pc plus downloads are now stable before it was all over the place now i can use my gaming pc in every room if i choose too with out worrying of ping issues if your a gamer a content creator streamer or a grandpa or granny its idiot proof
If you want to have a faster internet/transmission rate between the adapters, you need to pair your adapter with your modem via WPS button, in order to clone the WiFi name + the password. It works 10x faster since I have done that.
@@jigify press the wps button on your wifi adapter and then within 2 minutes press the same wps button on your modem (in order to clone the wifi). Once done, you will basically have the same WiFi name (with the same password) on each floor and your basement and you will also increase the bandwidth rate between those devices, which means faster WiFi.
Been using TP-Link Power Line adapters for years.. Perfect for renting, like we are. However, i see mixed reviews, some say all power line adapters when extending network must be from same manufacture, while other reviews say, you can mix and match (and the assumption they o on is "manufactures want to make it easy" doesn't hold much water i believe, however i'd like confirmation of this ... My theory on it must be from same manufacture is because when it comes to "pairing" them, each manufacture would have their own "AES-key" pair/value/blocks and you *will* defiantly run into trouble if using use mix and match Powline adapters, since *they* cannot guarantee it will work because they don't make those different ones.. I could be wrong, but that's just my assumption. To me , i believe its more " they just won't work at all' unless they are from same manufacture. Any insight to this? Manufactures would say "less likely" but i would say "they won't"
I connect my pc directly to the wifi lan for games bc wifi is unreliable. Now we’re moving house my pc would be in the second floor of the house and the main router would be downstairs so a lan cable would not be possible. I was looking for solutions and ive seen some gl.inet portable routers and i was considering it as a fix until i saw this video. Im not very tech savvy so im undecided what to to get. Are poweline adapters much reliable compared to the gl.inet routers that ive seen? Honestly have no idea which one is better 😅
"Same Electrical Circuit" - How would we know if its the same electrical line in the house if the modem is on the main floor and the other adapter is in the basement!
Will this work with a huawei h138-380 5g wireless sim card router? For improving download upload speed make the connection more stable because i do alot of cloud gaming
Ive been always a fps player on pc i had 800-900 mbps download and low ping stable with using ethernet. Now Im transferring in my new house which my connection on wifi has 70-120 download like yours cuz it depends where do you live just like i said i had like 1gb in my old house and here i have 200mbps but im gettinf like 70-120 on wifi… So is it worth to get these extendeders?
The main reason I got this was because the wifi was too unstable. Whenever I play games I’ll get packet loss but with this device it almost eliminates all the packet loss while gaming. Definitely worth it if you have that issue
I just replaced my aging 500Mpbs adapters and bought 3x gigabit ones... Since they come in pairs, one got left unused, mainly because i figured that was that was main bottle-neck transferring large files to my NAS.... I was expending a big boost, but i was wrong..... even after getting better Wi-Fi router, then i fugued it must be Wi-fi issue as well..... so technically i'm back in same boat as i was before (hooking Gigabit cable between NAS and laptop just to transfer huge files.) Its works, but ideally i'm still looking for all-in-one solution that i could use existing network... Somthing tells me i may have to drop Wifi on laptop for that I added the 3rd adapter origionally in the louge for AppleTV... It would be across circuit, so i get they'd bandwith reduction but it's still better than Wi-Fi.
No, you need mesh network. That is the only way to convert a 200 mbps ethernet to make 100+ mbps wifi around all parts of your house. This type of solution is only good for one device where you are fine with lower speed but constant.
Is there a PA that you recommend for streaming? The people who owned my house before me cut the cable in my room where i could have set up my internet box. :/ need to use wifi etc
My ps5 downloads games faster on wifi. When I launch a game to start playing online I always I use the powerline adapter. I get that steady connection I need. COD MW3 was lag spiking severely when I played using my t mobile 5G internet. Every since I got that powerline adapter... connection been steady. I just cant download games with the adapter. They have to be downloaded on wifi.
So would you say it's worth getting exempting the download speed? (i may not get your problem) And just to be clear how this works, you plug in a powerline near the router via wall socket then plug the powerline to my router via ethernet. Secondly find my preferred location for the second powerline (near my Xbox) and connect the two with ethernet? I'd consider myself good at COD MW3 but ping and lag is getting in my way 😭
Hi sorry, Im still confused with this, someone please help. So Im planning to buy this because I want to get ethernet cable in my room (which is far from the router). So are you saying that by plugging my router to the electric socket in this device automatically transmit internet to my house wiring? Or do i need to connect the first ethernet cable from my router to one of this device, and plug in the other one of this device in my room and connect the ethernet cable from there to the pc?
Thinking of get this, having laghing issue while i playing fifa. Wifi is strong in my room but still lag. Does powerline reduce the ping n packet loss?
Does anyone know why they have two Ethernet ports on both of them ? Don’t you just need one for one of them to connect to the router? Or you can connect two to make it faster?
it’s for if your pc is not near your router, your just extending the connection, let’s say your setup is upstairs and your router is downstairs in the living room, this is just bringing the connection through electricity up to your setup
You could use 1 port for connecting straight to your pc and the other a tv. That is just one example. You could also use 1 port to connect to your pc and the other to a mesh system to gain Ethernet backhaul. Some would say, why have a mesh and powerline adapters? Well the mesh is providing the wifi for wifi devices like tablets, phones, Firestick for example. If you have the mesh nodes connected via Ethernet backhaul then you will get a faster connection between the nodes instead of them relying on wifi to pass data from node to node to node/router. You could also use the second port to connect to an Ethernet switch where you may need provide a hard-wired connection to multiple devices in 1 location, eg, TV, Playstation/XBOX, Nvidia Shield, Sound Bar, AVR. It is a very very useful feature to have available.
@@unboxhero9187 simply switch the BAN in your advanced settings if you have android from 2.4ghz to 5 ghz and that'll solve your lag issue . Works for me smooth as butter. Try this out and let me know if you still have issues
The 2000mbps rating is pure marketing BS from TP-Link. Any AV2 compatible device would max out at 1200mbps link speed, which translates to 400mbps real speed max (Rule of thumb: the net speed is about 1/3 of the link speed). Besides, mbps is M*Bit* per second, not MByte! 1 Byte = 8 bits! Btw, you don't need to check the rating of the cables. Any cable sold after 2001 is gigabit capable, since they standardized the norm in 2001 and since then, Cat5 and Cat5e are *the same*. As for your speedtest, you might wanna check with the tpPLC utility whether MIMO is enabled or not. It seems like it is disabled in your case. You can usually get 200 Mbit/s net speed with these kits. One trick you could use is plugging the powerline adapters as far away as possible from your router and your PC using longer LAN cables, to make the distance between the 2 adapters as short as possible. For example, by using 2x5m LAN cables instead of 2x2m, you can easily gain 20 Mbit/s net speed!
do NOT buy these if your house is old. old eletrical wiring caused the speed to be worse than wifi. it's advertized as 1000mbps but barley pushes 50 on a speedtest. awful. would not recommend
Why are people testing this product using their slow internet connection? This product is rated 2000mpbs and you're testing it on a network capped at 250mpbs? Why??? It would make more sense to test the speed between two computers in your house, no?
@@unboxhero9187 This product is not just for your internet connection, it’s also for your home network which is very often at a higher speed than 250mbps. This is like testing a Fararri’s speed between stop lights because going from stop light to stop light is what “most people” would do with it. Completely ridiculous to test this product on a network capped at 250mbps and then speak highly of it.
250mbps is not slow. It's actually fast for us in some countries. Hell in most homes 100mpbs is the fastest you can get. Anything higher that that is a different type of connect that isn't available to most people especially for those in units. We can't have fiber to individual units.
@@inception69 most if not all internet connections are slow compared to local networking capabilities. My point was it’s not a good test to only test internet connections. This device isn’t just for the internet. Look, I t’s kind of like getting a Corvette to take your kid to school, and saying it is pretty fast. I’m saying taking your kid to school in a Corvette is a god awful test. And you’re saying taking your kid to school with the Corvette is pretty darn fast compared to other kids going to school. But not everyone wants to see how fast it is for taking the kid to school. I don’t really care how this Corvette performs in taking a kid to school; I want to know how it performs in a race. Internet speeds are usually so slow compared to home networking. Not everyone has fiber. Testing this device for the internet is a terrible test.
It's not a terrible test at all. It does not matter the speed of the connection. If it can match the connection speed then great but if you rewatch the video, this is more of a test of the reliability of using this device compared to wifi. ie, packet loss, speed fluctuations which as you know, is critical for gaming. Thanks for your analogy, not really related to his test but from what I take from the video it is more about having a reliable and stable connection.
Been using this i am a content creator on twitch did some looking around i never knew this was a option at all my speeds are now 100 up 100 down thats Good for gaming online on my gaming pc plus downloads are now stable before it was all over the place now i can use my gaming pc in every room if i choose too with out worrying of ping issues if your a gamer a content creator streamer or a grandpa or granny its idiot proof
Yup, its a good product to keep your connection stable:) I'm glad it works for your streams on Twitch!
If you want to have a faster internet/transmission rate between the adapters, you need to pair your adapter with your modem via WPS button, in order to clone the WiFi name + the password. It works 10x faster since I have done that.
Can you give a detailed guide on how to do it? Better still, why not a RUclips video clip? Thanks.
hello can you elaborate
@@jigify press the wps button on your wifi adapter and then within 2 minutes press the same wps button on your modem (in order to clone the wifi). Once done, you will basically have the same WiFi name (with the same password) on each floor and your basement and you will also increase the bandwidth rate between those devices, which means faster WiFi.
this may work for other units but the unit he is using does not use wifi. it is ethernet only.
WPS is insecure and you shouldn’t use it. It’s a great way to get hacked.
Been using TP-Link Power Line adapters for years.. Perfect for renting, like we are. However, i see mixed reviews, some say all power line adapters when extending network must be from same manufacture, while other reviews say, you can mix and match (and the assumption they o on is "manufactures want to make it easy" doesn't hold much water i believe, however i'd like confirmation of this ...
My theory on it must be from same manufacture is because when it comes to "pairing" them, each manufacture would have their own "AES-key" pair/value/blocks and you *will* defiantly run into trouble if using use mix and match Powline adapters, since *they* cannot guarantee it will work because they don't make those different ones.. I could be wrong, but that's just my assumption.
To me , i believe its more " they just won't work at all' unless they are from same manufacture. Any insight to this? Manufactures would say "less likely" but i would say "they won't"
Those are megabits, not megabytes
I connect my pc directly to the wifi lan for games bc wifi is unreliable. Now we’re moving house my pc would be in the second floor of the house and the main router would be downstairs so a lan cable would not be possible. I was looking for solutions and ive seen some gl.inet portable routers and i was considering it as a fix until i saw this video. Im not very tech savvy so im undecided what to to get. Are poweline adapters much reliable compared to the gl.inet routers that ive seen? Honestly have no idea which one is better 😅
hey man, same problem here, did you got a solution?
"Same Electrical Circuit" - How would we know if its the same electrical line in the house if the modem is on the main floor and the other adapter is in the basement!
Switching fuses 1 by 1...
Will this work with a huawei h138-380 5g wireless sim card router? For improving download upload speed make the connection more stable because i do alot of cloud gaming
If it has a lan cable itll work im pretty sure
i believe your internet speeds are in bits not bytes lowercase b. 200 MB per second is a 1gb file in 5 seconds lolol
Ive been always a fps player on pc i had 800-900 mbps download and low ping stable with using ethernet. Now Im transferring in my new house which my connection on wifi has 70-120 download like yours cuz it depends where do you live just like i said i had like 1gb in my old house and here i have 200mbps but im gettinf like 70-120 on wifi…
So is it worth to get these extendeders?
The main reason I got this was because the wifi was too unstable. Whenever I play games I’ll get packet loss but with this device it almost eliminates all the packet loss while gaming. Definitely worth it if you have that issue
I just replaced my aging 500Mpbs adapters and bought 3x gigabit ones... Since they come in pairs, one got left unused, mainly because i figured that was that was main bottle-neck transferring large files to my NAS.... I was expending a big boost, but i was wrong..... even after getting better Wi-Fi router, then i fugued it must be Wi-fi issue as well..... so technically i'm back in same boat as i was before (hooking Gigabit cable between NAS and laptop just to transfer huge files.)
Its works, but ideally i'm still looking for all-in-one solution that i could use existing network... Somthing tells me i may have to drop Wifi on laptop for that
I added the 3rd adapter origionally in the louge for AppleTV... It would be across circuit, so i get they'd bandwith reduction but it's still better than Wi-Fi.
No, you need mesh network. That is the only way to convert a 200 mbps ethernet to make 100+ mbps wifi around all parts of your house. This type of solution is only good for one device where you are fine with lower speed but constant.
Is there a PA that you recommend for streaming? The people who owned my house before me cut the cable in my room where i could have set up my internet box. :/ need to use wifi etc
That's not good if you want t lo use powerline use this one
why am I getting barely 20 mb download speed with the sockets?
Thanks for the review I was considering getting this product
Thanks for the video!
My ps5 downloads games faster on wifi. When I launch a game to start playing online I always I use the powerline adapter. I get that steady connection I need. COD MW3 was lag spiking severely when I played using my t mobile 5G internet. Every since I got that powerline adapter... connection been steady. I just cant download games with the adapter. They have to be downloaded on wifi.
So would you say it's worth getting exempting the download speed? (i may not get your problem)
And just to be clear how this works, you plug in a powerline near the router via wall socket then plug the powerline to my router via ethernet. Secondly find my preferred location for the second powerline (near my Xbox) and connect the two with ethernet?
I'd consider myself good at COD MW3 but ping and lag is getting in my way 😭
@@Jay-b2w1obruh same, I’m over here trying to figure it out cause I’m tired of WiFi lol
So using powerline decreased your internet speed?
it did the ping also got worse by 2
When sonic fiber comes online it's like a bullet
Hi sorry, Im still confused with this, someone please help. So Im planning to buy this because I want to get ethernet cable in my room (which is far from the router). So are you saying that by plugging my router to the electric socket in this device automatically transmit internet to my house wiring? Or do i need to connect the first ethernet cable from my router to one of this device, and plug in the other one of this device in my room and connect the ethernet cable from there to the pc?
The second thing
@proudofyourroots9575did this help ? And did it stop your lag ?
Thinking of get this, having laghing issue while i playing fifa. Wifi is strong in my room but still lag. Does powerline reduce the ping n packet loss?
I just got one todya and right away i’m getting frequent lag spikes every 3-5 min I think ima return it and go back to ethernet so I dnt recommend
@@VVERSLY are u playing on fifa too? Im using lan cable for 2 day, still lagging af
Which is better isp mesh for gaming connected to mesh via Ethernet or powelrine
Powerline will be more consistent, but in recent tests I have found wifi is generally faster (depending on your plan)
@@HDmetajoker yh wifi is faster
@@HDmetajoker should I try upgrading wifi router to WiFi 6 so the virign hub 5
@@HDmetajoker should I try upgrading wifi router to WiFi 6 so the virign hub 5
Does anyone know why they have two Ethernet ports on both of them ? Don’t you just need one for one of them to connect to the router? Or you can connect two to make it faster?
it’s for if your pc is not near your router, your just extending the connection, let’s say your setup is upstairs and your router is downstairs in the living room, this is just bringing the connection through electricity up to your setup
I think it states in the documentation that to get the 2Gb speed you need to connect two cables.
@@ryanbeat5828 ok thanks. 🙏
You could use 1 port for connecting straight to your pc and the other a tv. That is just one example. You could also use 1 port to connect to your pc and the other to a mesh system to gain Ethernet backhaul.
Some would say, why have a mesh and powerline adapters? Well the mesh is providing the wifi for wifi devices like tablets, phones, Firestick for example. If you have the mesh nodes connected via Ethernet backhaul then you will get a faster connection between the nodes instead of them relying on wifi to pass data from node to node to node/router.
You could also use the second port to connect to an Ethernet switch where you may need provide a hard-wired connection to multiple devices in 1 location, eg, TV, Playstation/XBOX, Nvidia Shield, Sound Bar, AVR.
It is a very very useful feature to have available.
my packet loss is so bad on wifi on fort, i get like up to 40 at times its crazy hoping this helps
has it helped
@@xstzy4167 yes
Did it help???
40 ping is really good
@@GeekShop-g.s 40 packet loss bro💀 and either way 40 ping is terrible
I have a capacitor burned out after 3 years 😂…
2000 mega bytes? you mean 2000 megabits... 2000Mbps/8=250MB/s (250 mega bytes per second). Its like your car does 2000 miles an hour!
It says megabit not megabyte
Drives me crazy! I'd be so disappointed when my PLA doesn't work at 16000Mbps!
Youre better off paying for hotspot on your phone i get 0% packet loss , 60ms latency , 100% wireless strength. Just from that alone
I’ve tried my hotspot and it’s extremely laggy
@@unboxhero9187 simply switch the BAN in your advanced settings if you have android from 2.4ghz to 5 ghz and that'll solve your lag issue . Works for me smooth as butter. Try this out and let me know if you still have issues
WHAT Is up guysss
The 2000mbps rating is pure marketing BS from TP-Link. Any AV2 compatible device would max out at 1200mbps link speed, which translates to 400mbps real speed max (Rule of thumb: the net speed is about 1/3 of the link speed).
Besides, mbps is M*Bit* per second, not MByte! 1 Byte = 8 bits!
Btw, you don't need to check the rating of the cables. Any cable sold after 2001 is gigabit capable, since they standardized the norm in 2001 and since then, Cat5 and Cat5e are *the same*.
As for your speedtest, you might wanna check with the tpPLC utility whether MIMO is enabled or not. It seems like it is disabled in your case. You can usually get 200 Mbit/s net speed with these kits. One trick you could use is plugging the powerline adapters as far away as possible from your router and your PC using longer LAN cables, to make the distance between the 2 adapters as short as possible. For example, by using 2x5m LAN cables instead of 2x2m, you can easily gain 20 Mbit/s net speed!
I have it and love it
god why do all these benchmark don't compare to directly wired and with a shit internet connection.
Limited technology
@@kenba3636 more of a skill issue, you could do a network benchmark against a local computer directly wired, no need to use the internet.
@@alkeryn1700 they are half duplex
lol. Iperf. Don’t use games to benchmark network.
Please stop saying megabytes per second! It's megabits per second.
Bro you should put fixing paket loss in fornite into the keywords because i tried everything in my Gaming Wifi and it didnt help at all
Mbit*
you didn't even test it how is this a review?
2000 megabyte/S ? Impossible. That would be 16000mbit. Noob
theres a clear difference between mb and Mb mate
do NOT buy these if your house is old. old eletrical wiring caused the speed to be worse than wifi. it's advertized as 1000mbps but barley pushes 50 on a speedtest. awful. would not recommend
Why are people testing this product using their slow internet connection? This product is rated 2000mpbs and you're testing it on a network capped at 250mpbs? Why??? It would make more sense to test the speed between two computers in your house, no?
Most people don’t have 2000 mbps. So that’s why it’s tested on this speed
@@unboxhero9187 This product is not just for your internet connection, it’s also for your home network which is very often at a higher speed than 250mbps. This is like testing a Fararri’s speed between stop lights because going from stop light to stop light is what “most people” would do with it. Completely ridiculous to test this product on a network capped at 250mbps and then speak highly of it.
250mbps is not slow. It's actually fast for us in some countries. Hell in most homes 100mpbs is the fastest you can get. Anything higher that that is a different type of connect that isn't available to most people especially for those in units. We can't have fiber to individual units.
@@inception69 most if not all internet connections are slow compared to local networking capabilities. My point was it’s not a good test to only test internet connections. This device isn’t just for the internet.
Look, I t’s kind of like getting a Corvette to take your kid to school, and saying it is pretty fast. I’m saying taking your kid to school in a Corvette is a god awful test. And you’re saying taking your kid to school with the Corvette is pretty darn fast compared to other kids going to school. But not everyone wants to see how fast it is for taking the kid to school. I don’t really care how this Corvette performs in taking a kid to school; I want to know how it performs in a race. Internet speeds are usually so slow compared to home networking. Not everyone has fiber. Testing this device for the internet is a terrible test.
It's not a terrible test at all. It does not matter the speed of the connection. If it can match the connection speed then great but if you rewatch the video, this is more of a test of the reliability of using this device compared to wifi. ie, packet loss, speed fluctuations which as you know, is critical for gaming.
Thanks for your analogy, not really related to his test but from what I take from the video it is more about having a reliable and stable connection.