on 29-08-2022 18:45
I’m considering signing up to fibre 500 or 1TB.
Does any of you use TP-Link powerline adapters with your Virgin Fibre? What speeds do you get?
Thanks!
29-08-2022 22:41 - edited 29-08-2022 22:42
I would never recommend powerline adapters, a lot depends on your household wiring and you signal also gets broadcast to neighbours on the same phase,. It’s always best to run Ethernet cables, they can easily be hidden.
30-08-2022 09:08 - edited 30-08-2022 09:08
And they are instantly Half Duplex, the VM ones had a Link Speed of 400 (should be 433 in reality) so you're going to get far lower than 400Mb/s in real life use, the newer POD's have the same Link Speed as the HUB3/4 so 866, which will get you about 600Mb/s in real life use if close enough to get a strong signal.
on 30-08-2022 09:13
Thanks, do you mean it’s best to get the VM powerline adaptors than the half duplex TP-Link?
on 30-08-2022 09:21
No Powerlines are old hat and no longer given out, you want the new Inteligent WIFI POD's which are now all SuperPOD's (2 ports) or should be as Plume discontinued the basic POD's (1port).
Look at my post here: Solved: Re: Max Speed intelligent wifi pod - Page 2 - Virgin Media Community - 5094102
on 30-08-2022 10:14
I see. What if I don't want WiFi? Are MoCA adapters a good solution?
on 30-08-2022 12:44
No MoCA adapters are not recommended, very few are in use in the UK and reported to not be very good. As said before there is nothing like an Ethernet cable, it will even go up to 10G.
on 30-08-2022 14:05
on 30-08-2022 16:05
Thank you. But would it safe to assume that if say one gets 1Gb speeds ethernet and through powerline it drops to 500Mb, it still is very good to get?
Meaning, despite the big drop, the faster service the faster to a powerline?
on 30-08-2022 16:18