It’s the AV1000s. I don’t seem to have the issues you all are reporting with them. No packet loss. No latency beyond a reasonable 1ms. My apartment’s power lines are clean, properly grounded, and perfectly in phase I guess.
I ran a set of TP-Link powerline at my last 2 places: in both, I rented a room in shared flats (apartments).
In the first I got a very poor intermittent wifi over 3 floors from my landlord's wifi: 2-5 Mb/s if that. With powerline I got a consistent 60-70 Mb/s.
Yes, they needed rebooting regularly, but it was totally worth it.
2nd place, here in Prague, I bought new units, because the tech had updated. My old landlord still uses my old setup as a wifi repeater, over 4Y later.
New place, my flatmates had put Ethernet across the floor, so it was in very poor shape: walked on, trapped in doors, insulation frayed, etc. Connection was very intermittent.
In that place, powerline allowed me to remove the messy dangerous ugly cable and gave me a steady reliable 200-250 Mb/s connection.
I think the complaints here may be from Americans who are famous for having mains power like wet string, running at half the voltage of the rest of the world. Across Europe it's all 220V, with mandatory earth (ground) pins, and every dwelling is on a separate ring main, so nothing your neighbours do affects your home and there is zero leakage.
Also, electric kettles work, and as I run on tea, that's important. :-D
Really the G.hn PL modulation seems more than adequate, but the behavior when conditions change is incredibly poor; if I had time, I'd find a "sufficiently noisy" appliance, some romex and run them all together. TCP and many video streaming sites are quite good at handling variable bandwidth, but the G.hn seems to turn that into variable latency, which is terrible. The people who design these are presumably not idiots, so I'd like to know why treating noise like congestion isn't sufficient...
