Once you reach that price, you may be better off looking at a mesh networking kit or evaluate if you need to install wired Ethernet in your home.

Price: A pair of Ethernet-only powerline adapters shouldn’t be more than $120 a kit with a Wi-Fi radio on the far end shouldn’t be more than $150.

It’s frustrating when you have to wait longer than a couple of seconds for a response from a website or an app’s servers

Latency, or delay: This is the kind of speed that makes most of what you actually do on the internet-such as web browsing and game playing-seem fast or slow.We used AV2 throughput ratings as a guideline when picking which kits to test-those numbers aren’t always indicative of real-world performance, but newer and better kits do generally have higher throughput rates. If your home internet connection is slower than that and the cause of your problems, a powerline networking kit may not make a difference. At a bare minimum, we’re looking for at least 25 Mbps, the speed you’d need for 4K video streaming to one device. Throughput, or speed: We measured how fast each powerline kit downloads files and streaming data.

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