I have two netgear powerline AV 500 ethernet adapters that give me near ideal internet access on my media computer (FIOS 25/25mpbs tests out at 8ms 25.4/24.7) and perhaps 100-140mbps to my router, printer, drive, etc. I now want to add a few wifi points and instead of having the mess of a powerline adapter + a wifi router I think it will be neater to have an all in one solution. Most of the ones that I find are 200mbps, however. I know that 500 is backwards compatible, but will a mixed solution slow everything down like it can for a mixed wireless g/n network?
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Bought some and tried it out: For the purposes of sharing my FIOS internet connection, mixing 200 and 500 is fine. I don't know what the theoretical impact is, but for my particular structure nothing goes over 200mbps regardless even if I am only using AV 500 devices. Adding more devices barely impacts the speed of any device (other than with increased usage). Powerline AV 200 wireless access points in multiple rooms give superior performance over any n router I have tested from a few rooms away. | |||
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