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Electronics I picked these up and I don't remember exactly what I paid I want to say that the wireless AC 1200 was about 30 or 35 bucks and then the tp-link powerline adapter I want to say was about $79 but this has the 3 port gigabit pass-through on it so it's basically like a switch as well now the question when it comes to installing powerline adapters is where in the house does it need to be plugged in now personally I feel that powerline adapters should be plugged in as close to where you want to get the internet as possible so it doesn't have to travel so far through the power system the way that these work is they turn an outlet into an extension of your network so these will communicate with each other through the power outlets and you have one that has a source and one that becomes a feed so the source gets plugged into an Ethernet or your router or a switch or whatever it's you know your source of internet's going to be and then one of these will be outputting to in my case the test bench that i have behind me now one of the reasons why I never really had good success with these in the past was the quality of wire inside of your home is what really is going to determine how well these things work now it does say up to 1200 you know Mbps but the thing is there's a lot of factors that can really differentiate how much speed you're going to get how much noise is there inside the line how much interference is there other you know is it near microwaves I mean there's a lot of things that can actually cause interference that really slows that down and can give you lots of intermittent you know in and out when it comes to you know the actual quality of the signal being sent to the power line now the same thing can actually be said for the wireless you know how far is the wireless have to go what's in between it are there a lot of walls is there a lot of electro interference how many wireless are in your area we already covered that in a different video so there's a lot of plus and minus too both of these systems when it comes to getting internet in a place where you don't already have it the cool thing about the powerline starter kits though is they come with everything that you need at least in this case here it comes with the two powerline adapters as well as two Ethernet cables so that you have one for either end it's advertised it's really good for you know 4k uhd streaming that's obviously going to depend on your service provider that has a huge bearing on 4k streaming but it says it uses the latest AV 2 standard which they call future-proof your network obviously there's no such thing as truly future-proofing but I went with this one because it has pretty much everything I wanted it's got the extra outlet on it it's got a built-in three port gigabit switch inside each one which is going to kind of solve to you know issues that I had I didn't want to use up a plug so this is going to give me plug pass-through and it's going to give me a switch in another room that actually wanted to be able to hook up more than one ethernet in there now I decided that I'm going to go ahead and plug the source into the baby's room which is actually right above here and over just a little bit so there's only one wall between and I think that that's going to give me the shortest route between the plugs where I'm not going to have anything really happening in between again I wouldn't want to plug this in on the other end of the house where the ethernet and the switch is simply because there's a lot the entire house between there and here when it comes for there to be interference and noise in the line and because this house is already pre-wired for Ethernet I'm fortunate to where I can do that but if you have a home that does not have pre wired Ethernet then you're really going to have to think about you know the best place to install this and might try different plugs in your home by running you know an Ethernet cable to it and seeing it to get any better performance but anyways we're going to do we're going to go ahead and load up the powerline adapter we're going to get this thing online and then we are going to load up the wireless and compare the two and see which gave us the best results transition so the installation was stupidly easy it was literally plug-and-play plug it into power on one end plug that in into Ethernet plug in the other side over here into where you want Internet and then plug that into the device in this case my test bench so I've got a 60 by for internet connection so that's the baseline here that we're going to see if I'm getting that whole internet connection so let's go ahead and see so my ping was 16 but as you can see it kind of stuttered there on the start but then it got us our entire you can see out there I'm getting 65 megabit down so I'm getting a little bit of bonus there from my ISP now my upload is 4 so let's see if I'm getting my full 4 yeah pretty much sitting like 3.9 there's 4 so we're getting it yeah so so far I'd say the powerline adapter in this house is working pretty damn good but I think that might have something to do with where I placed it it's as close to this room as I could get it well the other thing to do now is to try out the wireless so just to recap this is the d-link I picked up the AC 1200 it does advertise it it's a 300 megabit + 867 megabit so it's giving us our dual band 2.4 and 5 gigahertz Wireless so we're going to go ahead and install this now and see if it's giving us max speed if it does then I guess we've got some discussion here don't we well the wireless adapters installed that took all of 45 seconds because it's so easy on a test bench slowed up the drivers and see what we get I think I'm going to get full internet connection here but you know got to complete the test all right we're on the wireless now the wireless 5 gigahertz I'm only getting 3 out of 5 bars on the wireless here which is kind of interesting considering I've got that router placed where I thought was pretty ideal let's go ahead and see how the speed goes selecting best server again based on ping ping here 16 but look at the speed though you can see the wireless is sitting right around 15 16 17 on the 5 gigahertz band we're down to 2 bars of 5 though but part of that issue here I think quite honestly as I've already shown in my other video is there are a ton of wireless networks here so you can see we're only getting a quarter of the speed that we were getting with the powerline adapter and the ping is the same the upload will probably be fine will probably at the full for barely three point seven three point eight there's our four Wow okay so let me jump on the 2.4 gigahertz and see what happens so rather than for you guys here I just went ahead and jump forward you can see we got thirty point six nine down and we're getting the full four up on the 2.4 well I guess those results kind of speak for themselves don't they well guys I think those results kind of speak for themselves clearly I was wrong when I said that I thought that the wireless here would be the better solution clearly with this shop being on the first floor and a lot of house above it and the wireless still having quite a few walls to go through 5 gigahertz couldn't deliver in 2.4 gigahertz only gave me half what my actual bandwidth is capable of here with my ISP so clearly in this case powerline worked perfectly it didn't give me any additional ping then my other system is 16 pings seems to be kind of normal sometimes I'm under 10 but then again you know it is what it is I'm doing the best I can with what I've got but I got the full 60 in fact 65 by 4 when it came to the powerline adapter now the quality of powerline adapter is going to matter if you get a cheap powerline adapter you were going to get cheap results and there's a lot of articles out there that talk about powerline adapters the top 10 best ones that you can get but I think what the biggest factor here is going to be when it comes to powerline adapters is not how fast your internet is it's going to be the quality of the wiring in your home and one of the reasons why I had a terrible result with powerline adapters in the past was as I mentioned the other house I lived in where I tried using it five years ago was built in 1963 over 50 years old 53 years old and the wiring in that house is original so that says a lot about it and obviously being in a much newer home built in 2004 the wiring matter so if you're in a really old home with poorly insulated powerlines and you are going to have a lot of things hooked up to it a lot in between it to where you put it in your home doesn't matter as well if you've got a lot of interference between the two boxes that can be a problem as well things like turning on microwaves can create big issues but it's working perfectly for me so it's definitely something worth checking out if you think that the wiring in your home can support it and you just don't have any other choice I don't like being tethered down to a wire but then again it's a test bed to stop me moving around a whole lot so it worked perfectly for me anyway guys thanks for watching today's video you guys requested it I went ahead and did it and I'm glad I listened because I'd be sitting out here with wireless going oh I wish you had a boudreaux Turner connection when all along you guys would be like well Jay if you weren't being such a dick hole and you actually listened to what we were telling you you would have better internet connection well I did and I've got a really good connection here out here in the shop so thanks for suggesting it guys I'm glad I did it let me know what you guys thought of today's video and as always thanks for watching and I will see you in the next video don't forget Scottevest comm /j I love this hoodie this hoodie is freaking amazing alright guys see you the next one