Originally Posted by
Silrar
I use powerline myself, and I always have a ping of 20-30 with great speed. Way better than anything I was able to achieve through a repeater or other solutions. Especially if you want to get into the basement, where the ceiling is usually worse for the signal to get through, powerline can be the only solution.
Code:
Pinging ipv6.l.google.com [2001:4860:4001:802::1012] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 2001:4860:4001:802::1012: time=17ms
Reply from 2001:4860:4001:802::1012: time=17ms
Reply from 2001:4860:4001:802::1012: time=16ms
Reply from 2001:4860:4001:802::1012: time=16ms
Code:
Tracing route to ipv6.l.google.com [2001:4860:4001:802::1012]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 2601:9:5800:20:bac7:5dff:feca:73f7
2 31 ms 29 ms 11 ms 2001:558:6045:c3::1
3 11 ms 8 ms 26 ms te-5-1-ur02.sanmateo.ca.sfba.comcast.net [2001:558:82:330::1]
4 21 ms 23 ms 23 ms te-0-6-0-2-ar01.oakland.ca.sfba.comcast.net [2001:558:80:d8::1]
5 30 ms 24 ms 35 ms pos-2-1-0-0-cr01.sacramento.ca.ibone.comcast.net [2001:558:0:f6a3::1]
6 17 ms 15 ms 15 ms pos-0-3-0-0-cr01.sanjose.ca.ibone.comcast.net [2001:558:0:f5ec::2]
7 16 ms 16 ms 17 ms pos-0-5-0-0-pe01.529bryant.ca.ibone.comcast.net [2001:558:0:f600::2]
8 15 ms 41 ms 14 ms 2001:559::386
9 16 ms 17 ms 16 ms 2001:4860::1:0:21
10 17 ms 16 ms 16 ms 2001:4860:0:1::1b3
11 17 ms 17 ms 16 ms nuq04s08-in-x12.1e100.net [2001:4860:4001:802::1012]
Wireless adds less than 1ms to my ping on average, so I'm not sure how you can claim that powerline networking is better based on your ping of 20-30ms. I would hope that is your latency to some external router or host.