Moved house in November, first time I've ever had to use a Wifi adapter rather than going straight from the router via Ethernet. I picked up a cheap Trendnet adapter which is bloody awful. Every review I've seen of it says that it's bloody awful and so far it is living up to its reputation. Most annoyingly it appears to be causing enough DPC latency to make audio fragment when being played.
So a new WiFi adapter is needed as it's impossible to go direct to the router. I honestly have no idea where to start though. Any recommendations for good bits of kit would be much appreciated.
Finally went up to Windows 10 today as well. Sigh.
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https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/network-wifi/best-powerline-adapters-for-2018-3490638/
Totally location of desktop and router. Router in lounge, desktop in bedroom, no way of changing that.
Don’t listen to the naysayers - I have one for a hard to reach device and it’s fine. It tends to suffer when you have more than one set installed - for a single pair it’s been as reliable as a direct cable connection
Part of my job involves speccing and designing high level enterprise active networking (Cisco, HP etc) and even I think it’s decent stuff - it’s not as quick as real pukka networking, but in a home environment where you are relying on a broadband routers wifi it’s a more reliable connection and usually quicker..
So I shall be investing in either one of these:
Beastie 1
or one of these:
Beastie 2
Those ones, according to my order history.
Fun fact, one end of mine is also on a 6-way adapater along with my pc, monitors, speakers etc and works like a charm
I’ve found desktops with added on WiFi come across some sort of issue at some point or other if the onboard Ethernet isn’t updated.
The only issue with those is they aren’t passthrough, so you lose a socket
Yours for cost of postage...
Out of curiosity, I went to the Realtek site. The RTL8111G is listed on there as a PCI Express Ethernet controller with no mention of onboard m/b LAN controllers. The links at the side take you to the GBE family controller drivers and there's a Win 10 auto installer for the PCI-E controller with a version updated January this year. Well, it'd be rude not to try it, yes?
Installed it, fired up the Trendnet USB adapter, and started running looped audio through Reaper, a looped Morrissey track through VLC, a stream through Youtube, and BBC radio coverage of the Six Nations. 40 minutes in and LatencyMon has reported no problems at all. Not a single dropout whatsoever running all these different audio streams, a marked difference to yesterday when a 5 minute WAV file was suffering from dropouts.
Short version: blah