Using Powerline Adapters.

Bebo stunnah

I'd like if someone could clear something up for me. A family member of mine currently has Sky and Eir Vision (they have eFibre) but are seriously considering getting rid of both. The router is in a bedroom upstairs with decent wifi signal all over the house. The guy who put the Eir stuff in has an Eircom branded powerline passthrough adapter in the socket used by the router, which is connected to a port on the router and paired to another adapter in the sitting room downstairs for the tv . There's also tens of metres of unsightly ethernet cables stapled to the skirting boards all over the upstairs which deliveres Eir Vision to all 3 bedrooms.

I suggested using an android box as a replacement to what they already have, which would mean having 4 boxes around the house and only ever 2 on at any one time. Now the question I had was involving the powerline adapters. Could you use an adapter with a single ethernet port wired to the router paired with 3 adapters wired to the android boxes in each room. Or, would you need a 3 port adapter wired to the router and be able to use single port adapters in each room. Or am I wrong and it wouldn't work at all?
Ideally they would be passthrough so as not to waste the current lack of sockets.

I was originally thinking of 4 of These

wush06

Just get one of these sorts all your wire problems.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-WPA4220KIT-Powerline-Configuration-Smartphone/dp/B00DHB2T44/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1462052524&sr=8-2&keywords=tp+link

ED E

Remember 3 HPs are half as slow as 2, and 4 are half as slow again. If the current DLAN link is strong fine, if its mediocre then not so much.

jca

Why didn't the installer use powering adaptors in the 3 bedrooms as well? Your friend looks like an ideal candidate for sky Q.

Bebo stunnah

wush06 wrote: »

Just get one of these sorts all your wire problems.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-WPA4220KIT-Powerline-Configuration-Smartphone/dp/B00DHB2T44/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1462052524&sr=8-2&keywords=tp+link

From my own experience I'd avoid wifi as when the signal dips it can get very bad. All of the traffic on the network is through wifi; tablets, phones and a laptop - all light stuff. The only exception is Eir Vision. I'd prefer to run network cables through the house, albeit more discreetly than the Eir worker did, rather go through wireless. Thanks though.

ED E wrote: »

Remember 3 HPs are half as slow as 2, and 4 are half as slow again. If the current DLAN link is strong fine, if its mediocre then not so much.

The line is a fairly constant 90/100mb and rarely below 80mb. If they had 1 transmitting HP with 3 receiving HPs would that count as 4 or 3? Assuming its 3 and a max of 80mb that would leave them with 20mb?

jca wrote: »

Why didn't the installer use powering adaptors in the 3 bedrooms as well? Your friend looks like an ideal candidate for sky Q.

I'm not sure, that's what I thought would have been the easiest thing to do, probably cheaper to run cables. Or the network might not have been able to take the 3 adapters?
I'll look into Sky Q, never heard of it before. But the reason they were getting rid of Sky in the first place was because it was far too expensive as it is.

TheDriver

I have 4 powerline adaptors which would be used at sane time and never had issue with lag etc.
Why don't they get a freesat+ box?