devolo 500mbps powerline wifi network kit

If your neighbourhood is crowded with users with their home routers falling within the same channels, you might suffer from periodic degradation of reception quality. Now routers come with dual band, 2.4 GHz and 5Ghz. Whereas with WiFi, which is a wireless transmission, the quality of transmission is subject to a lot more factors: distance, obstacles blockade, and other signal transmissions within the same wave spectrum in your neighborhood. Yes, but that would be so minimal that it could only be detected by testing equipment. With a pair of decent power line adapters, you are getting a fast, stable, and secure cable connection for signal transmission. Power line adapters are NOT extending WiFi signals via the power lines, but data streams from your service provider optical fibre modem or your wireless router, depending on how you hook them up. WiFi is wireless, but ethernet connection is wired or via cables! Ok, probably 10 out of 10 people nowadays use wi-fi for internet connections. Many comments here have mixed up the concept of using power line adapters, or extenders, with WiFi. If anyone else has experienced any issues other issues, I would really like to hear about them and continue the debate. However I do acknowledge that the issue of interference is obviously a real concern to some and I can appreciate how frustrating it must be for radio enthusiastic etc. I doubt that many users are even aware Powerline can cause interference and I'm certain people aren't purchasing it to deliberately sabotage their neighbours radio signal. Unfortunately the website immediately looses credibility on the absurd claim that people using Powerline are deliberately causing interference. Ethernet will always be a far superior option, however the whole point of Powerline is that it is a cheaper, quicker alternative to running cables.Īdrian has also provided a website which is completely against Powerline on the basis of interference. This is certainly interesting to know as I was unaware OFCOM had the power to have someone stop using Powerline.Īdrian also makes the point that shielded Ethernet is the preferred option, with which I wholeheartedly agree (especially as the owner of a company that installs Ethernet).

So thank you to Adrian Knott, who commented below, he has had some real life experience with Powerline causing interference, and actually requested OFCOM (the UK's telecoms regulator) have one shut down. On a previous version of this blog I requested that anyone who had experienced this issue to get in touch, as I'd seen little evidence:

Devolo 500mbps powerline wifi network kit