The original post: /r/homenetworking by /u/Ryugamine0 on 2025-02-22 06:13:42.

I recently bought and setup a powerline adapter because I figured I could treat myself to a little bump to my speeds. Before, I was running a ethernet cable from a wifi Extender to my PC, and was getting the speeds shown below, not bad but not phenomenal. So, after setting up the adapters I went to check my speeds and was for a lack of a better word shocked at the speeds. I pay for 1000 down/up and my PC is on the opposite side of the house from the router, so a lot of interior walls in the way. I was under the impression that the powerline adapter would work significantly better, basically functioning as a direct connection to the router but am I wrong to assume so?

Wifi extender (using ethernet): ~350 mbps down, ~100 mbps up

Powerline Adapter: ~50 mbps down, ~5 mbps up

Tldr: New powerline adapter has crap speeds is that just an issue or the norm?

Edit: the Adapter is a tp link av-2000 and the wifi extender is a tp link as well but I can’t remember the model name rn