wiring the house with eithernet cables

[remanz]

Reviving this thread with a couple of questions:

I picked up this netgear kit
I have tried speed tests on my laptop and was getting speeds in the 35 Mbit range. Which is only slightly faster than the wireless. The two rooms are directly below/above, with new wiring in the bottom room, where all the cables come in to the house. the rest of the house is about 50 years old and has a mess of wires. I have tried every socket in the upstairs room with the same results; this is far less than the advertised 500 Mbit.

1) I'd just like to know if I can 5 box wow over this with no hiccups. My roommates will be playing wow and other games as well at the same time.
2) is it worth trying the sockets in other rooms and then potentially running a cable between? this would be certainly less than ideal.

One wow runs fine on my laptop, can't attempt 5 and my beast is well, a beast so hard to move.

any thoughts are appreciated

35MBit is the bandwidth. Need to know the latency. LAtency is what affects your game play. Bandwidth kinda doesn't matter these days where everyone has high bandwidth. Wireless should have higher latency than the powerline solution. If you get 150ms+ with wireless, you can definitely feel it when you 5 box.

The powerline does have dependency on your house's wiring for stablity. Based on my experience, it is more stable than wireless.