I feel your pain..
Unfortunately in the FTTP world, speeds are so much higher than was envisioned for these devices. On several occasions I have tried to use them to provide higher bandwidth to parts of the house that WiFi just could not match. I'm quite a demanding customer, and I'm sorry to say that I've never been satisfied with the performance of these devices, whilst recognising that they often tick all of the right boxes for friends, relatives and neighbours that have less challenging goals!
For me power line has always been particularly susceptible to:
- Mains interference
- Extenders plugged into 4 way extension leads, especially if other phone charger/ psu devices are plugged in.
- any other noisey appliances, microwaves etc. This topic is a bit nebulous, but as an example I once had and example of a client, who's son experienced internet dropouts at certain times in the evening, In turned out that the younger son had been using a mains attached sex toy that was disrupting power line and to a lesser extent WiFi!
- Ridiculous sticker claims
- AV600, AV1300- all imply performance that are subject to local environmental conditions (much like ADSL,ADSL2,FTTC), and from my perspective are rarely met.
they definitely serve a purpose, but for me, for anything other than a wireless mobile device I install wired ethernet.
