Cheers.

No effect on sync but things such as
1. Apple TV screen mirroring - useless over 5ghz wifi from powerline (full bars) - fine with 1 bar 5ghz from main router.
2. Gaming suffered A LOT over powerline despite speeds appearing fast
3. Single threaded downloads we're always poor
4. Reliability - almost unnoticeable drop outs which would disconnect some services

Well hopefully only using it for modem stats so won't notice any of those side effects you have listed.

Cheers for that.

I would be very cautious about using power line adapters, they are known to generate interference at the frequencies used by the VDSL2 connection.

How about a much simpler solution provided that your existing Ethernet cable is the normal 4 pair type you can use this to provide 2 100Mbit connections as each one uses 2 pairs. So all you need is 4 RJ45 connectors and a crimp tool then check the RJ45 ethernet wiring diagram to use the appropriate pairs at each end of the cable.

You can get ready made adapters called cable economisers but these seem to have female RJ45 sockets so extra patch cables and couplers are needed to connect to the modem/router etc.

Edited by Realalemadrid (Wed 22-Mar-17 08:52:26)

It is known that in some cases that Powerline causes interference. There are also many cases where there is no tangible effect on broadband from using them. I used some for years and it had no effect on my sync at all. Powerline may be a perfectly adequate solution for the requirement - the only way to know if it has any effect would be to try it.

Where are these economisers available, currently I have 2 RJ45 sockets fitted to the cable and a patch lead to a switch and the modem at the other end, I dont really want to mess around with the cable the economisers maybe a much more elegant solution.

Edit found some on ebay with 2 female sockets and a male plug sold as a pair, worth a try.

Edited by Banger (Wed 22-Mar-17 14:42:58)

I found quite a few by googling for "cat5 splitter".

Thats what I did and found these.

Look like the right sort of things. We used to use them in a corporate network years ago to avoid running additional cables and as long as you don't need gigabit then they should work just fine.

I have sussed it. Am able to get stats over wireless. The way I did it was to leave the modem in bridge mode and enable wireless. Then attach a wireless adapter to my main PC and set static addressing on it, and voila, access to 192.168.1.250 through wireless and the admin page. No need for splitters or powerline.