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I have 2 netgear powerline 200Mbps adapters connecting my main floor with my office upstairs (delivers all 25/25 of my FIOS easily). An contractors tend to do a crappy job, or a 'good enough' job.

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I neither had the time or will to patch and paint after running cables in my home.

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With a full time job, 3 kids, and learning android programming. I have plenty of CAT cable for the job, and have built many cables in my time as a network admin.

Dravic - Tuesday, Auglink Time was a factor for myself.

All in all, it is best to try out a powerline adapter kit and see whether it fits the intended requirements in one's own place of usage, rather than relying on the advertising. It is often characteristics such as electrical distance, and whether the units are on opposite sides of a circuit breaker which matter more. Physical separation between the locations of the units often doesn't matter. The performance does go down in such cases. In places such as the US, a ring / mesh topology is often seen. In places such as the UK, where the electrical wiring has a ring topology, the wires almost act equivalent to running an Ethernet cable around the house. Also, the topology of the electrical wiring in the house heavily influences effective bandwidth. Also, it must be remembered that capacitive loads close to the routing unit result in reduced performance, while inductive loads improve performance. SmallNetBuilder has one such excellent piece.

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There are a number of good resources on the Internet about how to make the best of your powerline network. Readers contemplating powerline networking must remember that the usage scenario heavily influences perceived performance. In this respect, the WD Livewire achieves what it was intended/advertised to do by Western Digital. Netflix and YouTube streaming, which used to stutter on a Wireless-N network in Location 2, was managed without breaking a sweat, once the WD Livewire units were set up.

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Compressed 720p copies work reliably (and this was confirmed to be without issues in both our test locations).

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As the figures indicate, it is not quite possible to stream Blu-Ray bitrate movies from a PC or NAS to a media streamer with this generation of powerline networking products. That said, it is probably what an user would encounter while trying to use the powerline network for file transfers within the home network. Also, note that the figures quoted above are probably the worst case bandwidth measurements. Surprisingly, better results were obtained in the bigger house, but this can probably be explained away by the fact that there is probably too much noise in the power lines in an apartment setting. SMB Transfer Rates with the WD Livewire (Mbps) - Higher is Better The other house (Location 2 in the table) was a 10 year old five bedroom single family dwelling spread across two floors, with an approximate area of 2800 sq. The experiments were conducted in two houses, the first of which (Location 1 in the table) was a 23 year old single bedroom apartment of approximately 700 sq. The experiments were repeated across one outlet in each room of the house, and transfer rates corresponding to the worst performance are reproduced in the table below. The average of the time taken to transfer each file was recorded. We set up 5 files of varying sizes (5 MB, 700 MB, 1.4 GB, 4.37 GB and 16 GB), and transferred them from one computer to the other four times.

It is quite well known that nothing can be as inefficient as the Windows SMB network sharing protocol. Both machines were running Windows 7 and the hard disks had more than enough performance to surpass the 100 Mbps rate at which the interfaces were capped by the powerline kit. The kits were connected to the two power outlets to be tested and two notebooks with GbE ports were connected to them to set up a P2P network. We decided to do nothing fancy in our benchmarking methodology for the WD Livewire. As expected, they gave similar sort of benchmark figures as the WD Livewire. On the other hand, we did manage to lay our hands on a couple of other Atheros/Intellon based powerline adapters. Unfortunately, we are not in possession of a Belkin Gigabit unit. Ideally, we would have liked to benchmark the WD Livewire against a product based on a chipset from Gigle Networks. It is not the case for a consumer that one powerline networking product performs better than the other. The other issue with powerline networking products is that most of them are based on the same chipset, and offer similar performance. The main issue with powerline networking is that it is heavily dependent on the usage environment.