I recently updated most of the networking adapter in my house. Currently my router is the NETGEAR Nighthawk R700 Router along with the Motorola SB6141 Modem. They are placed in my game room which is about 20 ft to my computer (Separated by about 1 door and 1 indirect wall). My house was built in '97. I’m currently look to upgrade the networking hardware on my computer and looking at the TP-LINK AC19000 PCI adapter and the D-Link Powerline AV2 2000. Would I need a motherboard that support 10 Gigabit Ethernet in order to take advantage of the the D-Link AV2 2000?. I’m upgrading my motherboard anyway so I’m willing to put in extra for one that supports better Ethernet.
My main question is that would it be better to use the TP-Link AC PCI Adapter or go with the D-Link Power-line adapter?.
I have a TP-Link TL-WN851ND, the card works great, it was the software that annoyed me for half a year until I found out how to prevent it from autostarting.
I am using the wireless of D-Link Powerline adapters, an older model of the ones you linked. They work as intended.
In your experience which one delivers better speed/stability?
Machine linked via WLAN to Powerline, second powerline piece links to router. Powerline is like being conneted with a cable.
My internet speed is ~60Mbps. Would a need a motherboard that supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet Port if I want to go with the D-Link Power-line adapter? Since the adapter is rated for 2Gpbs.
Do you store big files (>100GB) on a NAS? If not, you will be good with anything faster than 100Mbit/s. My network can transfer at 300Mbit/s wich is completly useless because I get 16Mbit/s download and 2Mbit/s upload and do not have a NAS.
I mostly just do some Plex/Netflix streaming. I think I'll settle with the wireless card as that would leave me with less pieces in my networking area.