since I've lived in this house I've used powerline networking, which is still an idea that I find fundamentally Wrong1, to connect the networked devices in my room to the wi-fi router in the common space, but for the past month or two I've been having weird network drop-outs every couple of minutes.
I decided to switch over to bridging my network segment to the wi-fi with a little wi-fi range extender now that we have a fancy wi-fi 5 or 6 or whatever router, and suddenly the bandwidth to my room has tripled (from ~60mbit/s to ~180mbit/s) and the drop-outs are gone. I guess there's no wires like no wires.
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you're not supposed to mess with the electricity in the walls! what the fuck man, that's how you start a fire
Yeah, don't use Powerline.
Especially not if you live in an ancient terraced house and you're using a generic brand, because if your neighbours are also using it, they might very well be able to access your networked machines.
I Suffered So You Don't Have To
