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I would never use powerline if there was any other option. It works fine if you're on the same circuit, but once it passes through the breaker panel it's a coin flip. Also sensitive to having stuff with shitty power factor on the same circuit. CFLs, LEDs, cheap appliance motors, etc. you never want to be trying to diagnose "why does my Internet cut out whenever my fridge compressor cycles?!"
I've actually got it running to a distant building 500' away, through the woods so a ptp wifi link would have been much harder to set up.
It works, but it adds a lot of latency and periodically drops unless you keep a device constantly pinging the router.
Just run an Ethernet cable across the floor and put a rug on it, 9 times out of 10 it's the best option.
Yeah mine wasn't ideal, I had to go down stairs and around some corners.
If I had to do it again I would've just drilled through some walls. Was my landlord going to like it? No. Would they have been able to stop me? Also no.
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