Off Topic - Home Plugs

Now we've sorted that out, can we finally move on to buttplugs.

The tplink ones I've got were as cheap as chips and do the job as long as you turn encryption on. Without it, the behaviour was sporadic and it meant randoms were able to connect to my router, which isn't ideal on the off chance they were downloading extreme buttplug content or something of a similar ilk.

What's the difference like in comparison to if you were plugged directly into the router admin?

You haven't got the wireless ones have you?

I'm getting 40 meg into the router essentially, then the Sky HD and ps4 are too far away so the wireless drops out, so thinking of homeplugs to them. Then my sons bedroom, putting in a wireless homeplug.

Either all that or hope a different wireless router will do the job better!

Mine are Cisco and cost about £20 for a pair with single ethernet ports.

I suppose it's hardly a challenging test of the product as both the router and the TV I use it for are in the same room.

I did set up an identical pair for someone else for his upstairs office as the signal from his router downstairs was weak and intermittant. he reckons it's about 20 times faster.

I go wired into the plug and from the other plug into the PC. My max download speed is about 8MB/s (64Mbits/s), but with only having one device connected, I'm not sure what the bottleneck is, but suspect it is the PC as opposed to the connection.

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I go wired into the plug and from the other plug into the PC. My max download speed is about 8MB/s (64Mbits/s), but with only having one device connected, I'm not sure what the bottleneck is, but suspect it is the PC as opposed to the connection.
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I can also happily stream sky go through my setup.

Right I'll give it a go.

Cheers gents

I use it for BBC iPlayer etc and the playback is seemless with no buffering even for HD content.