Gadgetory

just check out my sweet-ass living room guys just look at how awesome it is it's just there's like papers on the floor wifey sauces desk with a bunch of crap on it look at this big-ass TV look at that it's not 4k but who cares for case stupid there's a lot of cool stuff you you might you might even say it's the perfect living room but it's not you know why you know why do you see something that's a little bit out of place something that's not quite right guys well I'll tell you you probably can't see it because it's on the ground so today we're solving this problem there are these two Ethernet cables that have been strewn across my living room for the last two years or so coming from a an AC Buffalo router and going into my office of course where where it's hooked up one of those is going to hotline which you can get a perfect view of right from here and the other one is going to the streaming system for awesome hardware on Tuesdays now the reason why this is an issue now wifey sauce and I have had a big-ass rug covering this up for the good portion of two years and it was it was great you know you hardly ever noticed it unless you like went over to my my area and then it would start to get a little seedy but that's that's all changed now because we got rid of the rug it's just a little too big for this space ever since we moved her desk in here and it's just Shaggy and hard to vacuum and it sucks so now we're dealing with this mess and whyphy sauce ever since has been very adamant about me getting rid of these cables which I fully understand it is quite annoying and sort of an eyesore so that's what we going to be doing today I've got I've got an idea though guys I don't think all hope is lost just yet this is what I'm going to do instead of hardwiring which I'm not going to go wireless before you freaked out because I don't want to sacrifice that much in terms of internet speeds but I've got these two products here the first of which is this Ethernet powerline adapter from tp-link this is the AV 500 nano offering 500 megabits per second which is pretty speedy and if you guys haven't used one of these before these are super convenient it essentially uses your home circuitry to transmit your broadband signal this particular unit comes with two of these wall adapters and they both so they both plug into the wall one of them connects router and the other one connects to whichever device you wish to have internet on and and it's pretty easy just plug and play uses like again the the circuitry that's in your in your home walls and stuff it's like voodoo magic and there are super convenient but I'm going to also see if there's any sort of performance slowdown using these over a hardwired connection I've never really done a sort of a bee comparison with these particular units before so it should be kind of interesting now unfortunately this product only supports one device and to add more devices I would have to buy an additional wall unit actually one per every device that I wished to add to the little network here and that's kind of a pain because it's going to eat up a lot of my wall sockets which I don't like and they're just sort of bulky I don't want three or four of these in my office it just just not very convenient to me so instead and could get kind of pricey too so instead I bought a switch so here's another tp-link product here this one's 200 megabits per second I hope that's enough internets for my needs we got the 10 100 there and the switch is a pretty simple to explain just really briefly it's like you connect your router to one of these ports and then you've got this is a five port switch and then I've got four additional ports that I can just feed out to other devices so this is kind of already doing the job of one of these guys if I were to buy an additional one but it's even better because it's cheaper in the long run and I've got four ports to work with instead of just one per unit it doesn't take up nearly as much space either so we're going to be setting these up today it should be fairly easy to install these are all super easy like plug and play devices and we're going to be doing some AV comparison testing these are the speeds I was able to achieve that I'm getting now on hot line with a direct wired connection so here we have 118 megabits per second down a hundred and or I'm sorry eleven point eight nine up and we're going to see if there's any sort of speed or performance degradation once we switch over to the new hardware let's see what these puppies are made of alright ladies and gentlemen installation was a breeze as expected look at this no more cables on the ground whoo much cleaner it just feels feel some nice feel so nice to have a clean living room with with no cables tangling us up you can see here got the router still situated and the powerline adapter is plugged in very close to it right data underneath our little printer desk there and you can see I've actually plugged directly to the wall socket as opposed to using the electrical outlet that would have been closer maybe a little bit more convenient you should probably never plug in your Ethernet powerline adapters into a surge protector or power strip of any kind simply because that can scramble the signal and I don't mean like encrypt it but I just mean there's a lot of interference that's introduced when you do when you go that route oh my gosh my microphone my poor lavalier are you okay like I was saying these surge protectors can severely impact your speed so if you happen to pick up a kit similar to this one you're getting really lousy performance for some reason it could be that you plugged in to a surge protector so always always go the recommended route and plug it directly into the wall however there's a few other factors to consider if you are getting some lousy speeds with your powerline adapter which we're going to go over in just a bit let's go ahead and mosey on over to my office and see the other let's see the rest of the setup here that I've got configured I'm just going to walk in here just do it just do it on the fly so I plug in the other adapter right there so I've routed that to our switch here and from there I've got a couple a thern net cables going outs of course one to the streaming pc the other to Hotline and i think that it's pretty much simple it's super straightforward I think at this point we can do a little bit of a comparison test I actually hooked up my my go anywhere do anything PC in the know 202 and which is on Wi-Fi right now I did a really quick speed test just to see what we are getting with Wi-Fi and we're getting 52 down and 11 up okay so not not too shabby the download speeds about less than half of what it was with a direct wired connection to hot line which was about a hundred and eighteen down if I remember correctly so we're going to see with our with our new configuration here with the powerline adapter is to see what kind of performance we can get so let's just click go see we get hopefully we get better than Wi-Fi I'm hoping for well above 50 megabits per second down and it looks like we're getting at least that and potentially more we're at 60 pushing 70 yes 8000 I don't think we hit 80 all right we're doing up now úp seems to be about the same as it was with the hardwired connection which was around 12 looks like we're getting the same deal here which I'm very happy about I'm actually almost more concerned about upload speeds and download speeds because of YouTube and stuff but here's here's the final results with our powerline connection down of 78 megabits per second and an up of nearly 12 so ups looking good download we did incur some speed loss there from 118 to 78 that's kind of a that's kind of a bummer actually but here is the other thing that I wanted to test out the other factor to consider here that might impact our speeds is which outlets were plugging these units into so I mean obviously there's not much I can do about this one I mean that units going to stay there because it's right next to the router but this one over here I feel like maybe we can get it a little bit closer to that first socket so that the signal won't have to travel as far a distance within my home circuitry so there's an alley right here right between the wall and the couch of our living room so that's that's good both outlets would be in the same room so potentially that could increase our speeds a bit but I honestly have no idea so let's go ahead and try it out it could very well be the same or worse I don't exactly have like a wiring map of how the circuitry in this house is is wired but let's let's just go ahead and try it out let's see what happens all right I've relocated the second adapter we plugged in behind the couch now in the same room as the router and the other adapter and let's rerun the tests I'm I'm hoping that we see something a little bit closer to the original 118 megabits per second that we saw let the direct connection but let's find out moment of truth okay come on pushing 50 pushing 60 come on 70 75 looks like we're beating our old score we've beaten our old score were hit we've hit 80 80 83 85 88 oh my god was that almost 90 I think I saw almost 90 and then upload speeds looked pretty consistent here let's wait for it to finish oh my god my my heart is racing I can feel it beating out of my chest this is intense guys I'm going to cry all right here we go eating it so basically 90 down and upload remains at 12 what do you know just simply from switching it switching that second that second adapter from that port right there to the one directly behind this wall was gave us gave us quite a nice boost there so I'm pretty happy with this I feel like this is maybe a 1520 percent or more slowdown from a direct wired connection but the convenience that we now have of not having to trip over these cables which wifey sauce does all the time - she's super clumsy is it's totally worth it honestly and because I'm uploading honestly these days more that I'm downloading I bet this sits well with me so I'm very happy with how this turned out although I wonder what white pea sauce thinks about it care how I got rid of the wires all right so certainly good to have YP sauces approval in the bag happy wife happy life and all that I'm really happy with how this turned out actually before I go a bit of information you guys might find interesting I actually reran the speed test with though someone's glare on the monitor good lord did I even did I even look at the shop before I started filming I actually ran the speed test again with one of the adapters the one closest to the router plugged into the surge protector to see what kind of impact it would have on our speeds what kind of performance hit we would incur and it actually dropped the download speed to 30 megabits per second going from 90 to 30 a massive hit just from plugging it into the surge protector so if you're having any issues with your powerline adapters maybe check that out to ensure that you're not just freaking out and you know having to return the product unnecessarily but that's all the time I have for today guys thank you so much for tuning in let me know what you think about my setup here I think that the the the performance decrease here is is slight enough to still work for my needs I'll be watching watching it closely and if I notice it's too slow then maybe I'll do a follow-up video and try to improve things but for now I think it's going to be just fine let me know what your own experiences are with these powerlines Ethernet adapters or Ethernet powerline adapters I know it's kind of a mixed bag of reviews on the internet and stuff so very curious to hear your thoughts on the subject but that's going to do it for now guys thank you so much for watching be sure to subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon and toss me a like on 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