I genuinely had no idea this was a thing until my coworker mentioned it to me yesterday.

So pretty much you are forced to buy at least one of these adapters that plugs into an outlet near your router and has an ethernet cable between the two, and then you have to buy another adapter for each hard wired device you want internet for? If I understand it correctly.

It's a brand new house so not old wiring. Does it matter what kind of wiring? Does this draw a lot more electricity? Maybe dumb questions but I really don't know.

If you have a bunch of devices in the same area, just buy a switch instead of multiple adapters. Powerline adapter -> switch -> devices

NiceHash mining is basically making GPUs free if you can run them for a year... even post electricity costs. If you really want to turn a profit then 1070 is probably where the sweet spot is due to power efficiency but 1080ti will pay for itself in half a year too.

At least that's what I told myself when I ordered a 1080ti from Newegg 30 minutes ago.

Recommendations on specific models/brands?

D-link the best way to go on these kinds of devices?

lol welcome to the master race

They all pretty much use the same chips anyway. Build quality and antennae alignment are much more important.

You're looking for a wifi card with an antennae that you can put on desk (better yet tape to wall) to get away interference (especially USB 3.x).

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16833320313

is one of the best you can get. But to be honest, an USB wifi adapter that you tape to the wall (well away from the motherboard and other usb devices) close (with direct LoS to the router) will basically never drop signal.

I've been loyal to Linksys, mostly because my WRT54G lasted me nearly forever.

I've personally installed the netgear powerline 1200 for a couple of our clients. They work flawlessly. Haven't had to go back to address any issues with them so far

As for the switch, any unmanaged switch should be fine. They can be found for under $20. Netgear, tp link, d link, all fine. If you have GB internet speeds make sure you get a switch capable of it.

Thanks for the recommendation. Will look into it.

Thanks, I'll look into these as well.

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I've got two of these switches. They work very well for me and have low power consumption. Highly rated on Amazon and Newegg.

If you have a cable outlet near the item, you can also use MOCA (ethernet over cable) to network the devices.

Complete aside: I was having trouble with accessing Google last week, so I set up Bing as my default search engine.

I Bing'd "how fast is powerline networking" and the result was a bunch of articles from 2011.

I Googled the same thing and got articles from 2016. WTF, Bing?

I'm sort of lucky in that my house is pre-wired for Ethernet. So two of my three desktop computers are connected via Ethernet. Problem is that the third computer is located in a room where the Ethernet outlet just doesn't work. And since the WiFi router is in the back of the house, it can barely reach the front of the house, where this third computer is. I have an extender, but the signal is still really low in the front of the house. Really don't get it.

Have you tried anything to fix the Ethernet outlet?

If there is cable ran and it doesn't work thats a very easy fix.. It's either terminated incorrectly behind the wall jack or where it connects to your house switch, or it's simply not connected to the switch

Turns out now might be a good time to buy a used gfx card

https://www.overclock3d.net/news/gpu...es_below_150/1

All thanks to Ethereum crashing a bit

OC3D are terrible these days.

Can you buy a used 1070/480 for 60-80% of cost when new? No? Then it's ****ing bull****.

That article is way premature. Will there eventually be a ton of used cards hitting the market? Yeah, but that is still a ways off.

Seems like I was premature about the no Ethernet cables earlier, my new place should have ethernet terminations so I can run cable. Thanks for the replies.

Got my first Blue Screen of Death today. I have been using 7, 8, and 10 for quite a while and had honestly thought that the BSOD was a thing of the past, so I was really surprised when I was just surfing the Internet and the BSOD occurred. Wasn't even running any games in the background (unless you count the Blizzard launcher)

Eh, still having one here and there every few months. I guess it's mostly my **** wifi dongle driver that suicides in an explosion after a few hybernations or the PS3 controller driver. But 3-4 times a year is not enough for a fresh install for me.

But the win 95 days of crashing after a device connection are definitely over.

I've been having some major stuttering issues in some games for the last month or so... Was ready to throw in the damn towel because I couldn't figure it out for the life of me....

Turns out it was my Bluetooth adapter that my Xbox controller was connected too. Drivers where up to date and everything but it just must be a cheap POS. hard wired controller works with no stutters and so does controller to Xbox branded dongle.

Still trapped on a goodwill computer waiting for the great bitcoin mining bust of 2017. Then i can up my grfx card. Will probably (never?) build my first computer from motherboard up when i can afford it later.

Yeah this is my problem too, GPUs just cost to much right now. Also I don't think etherum or bitcoin are going to drop too much in price this year, actually expect them to go up.

Literally have everything but ram and a gpu for a new pc.

Grab all new parts minus GPU. Pick up a 980ti for $250-300 to use til cards come back to normal. Resale value is really good on them. Performance near a 1070

Ram and ssd prices don't look to be coming down anytime soon either.