How's the performance for the powerline?

How fast is the speed ? I know expensive routers are the way to go but I have many walls in my home so even the most expensive wireless router will not give me the speeds I desire at the rooms located far away from the router. I'm using the Tenda AC 15 router - was good before - now with the 500 Mbps speed I can't achieve the published speed unless I'm very close to the router when on 5Ghz.

It depends on which type of Mesh routers, some the main/primary unit will need to connect to the router whereas some can directly perform pppoe dialing...the pairing units can work with/without cable.

DIR-882 & AC1300UHP more or less the same in real world performance.

Hi,

Welcome. Though you can use powerline to extend the signal coverage to another corner (Eg. room) but the speed/bandwidth you will be getting will be significantly reduced. Like your case (Eg. 500Mbps), if you depend on the powerline c/w wireless type, the performance will be disappointing for both signal coverage & speed.
If you don't mind for the speed drops, and that area you wanna cover cannot be effectively covered by wireless bridging then you can consider powerline.

If you want performance, many times powerline is not really plug & play as it claims to be.... understanding & tuning of electrical characteristics needs to be done.

Anyway if your friends have a pair of them, just borrow and test before buying.

* Wait for real AV2 powerlines to be available.

I think powerlines are good maybe 5 years ago...as its better than WiFi N and few people have internet beyond 100Mbps back then. What is powerline AV2, new standard?

Btw, seems like lots of people not getting the advertised speed after upgrade here....is it TIME's infra being pushed to the limit? I think they really cant handle the additional bandwidth load....dont think got so much problem previously....cukur my place steady 500Mbps.