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I have an extender already, but it's a cheap one and bandwidth sucks. Any success stories?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YMMV with Powerline. In my experience it often has worse speeds than Wi-Fi.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

they improved quite a bit in recent years, here i can buy 500mbps powerline kit for less than 100โ‚ฌ

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Did you test it? Don't blindly trust the number on the box. My distrust of Powerline is based on testing different TP-Link sets at different homes; the speed was almost always slower than Wi-Fi.

I guess there are various factors that can affect this; I'm not an electrician but I assume that the way your home's power grid is set up might make a difference.