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Yeah I have tried it! It beats WiFi to some rooms, but to my office it's very slow. You would never be able to predict this, which is an unfortunate thing abou

• lucb1e 24d ago
  And how stably. Ours works amazing if you ignore that it duplicates packets 2-3 times for no reason (netting a few hundred megabits, many times the speed that VDSL is able to deliver here), but then it will die for a few minutes roughly once or twice a day, unpredictably. Thankfully we only need it for the bedroom and everything else reaches from a centrally hung 'router'. When it's down again, we briefly switch to mobile data or the poor signal we get from downstairs or we, y'know, get out of bed or turn off the phone and go sleep, depending on the time of day :-) It's a strange pattern and I'd be interested to solve the mystery. Not many powerline debugging tools available though, not to say none
  • bjackman 23d ago
    Yeah I get occasional dropouts in the setup I installed at my mum's place too. And yeah it's just a bit of a weird black box, and also fundamentally it's exploiting a nontrivial system to do something that had little relationships to its design goals. I don't know anything about electrical systems but I assume there is all kinds of random shit that can disrupt Powerline links while still being fully within the design envelope of the power system.