Scenario:
Apartment, mid 70s built. Powerline through three rooms in the hallway. 'Normal' day, all ordinary consumers such as refrigerator etc were at the net.
Measurement results with the old Netgear 500+ adapters:
238 megabytes in 60 seconds, 33.2 Mbit / s.
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Client connecting to 192.168.1.254, TCP port 5001
TCP Window Size: 129 KByte (default)
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[9] Local 192.168.1.193 port 64722 Connected with 192.168.1.254 port 5001
[5] Local 192.168.1.193 port 64718 Connected with 192.168.1.254 port 5001
[7] local 192.168.1.193 port 64719 Connected with 192.168.1.254 port 5001
[6] Local 192.168.1.193 port 64720 Connected with 192.168.1.254 port 5001
[8] Local 192.168.1.193 port 64721 Connected with 192.168.1.254 port 5001
[ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[9] 0.0-60.0 sec 73.4 MBytes 10.3 Mbits / sec
[6] 0.0-60.1 sec 20.9 MBytes 2.92 Mbits / sec
[7] 0.0-60.1 sec 74.9 MBytes 10.5 Mbits / sec
[8] 0.0-60.2 sec 61.1 MBytes 8:52 Mbits / sec
[5] 0.0-60.2 sec 8:12 1:13 MBytes Mbits / sec
[SUM] 0.0-60.2 sec 238 MBytes 33.2 Mbits / sec
Measurement results with the new devolo dLAN adapters 1200+:
812 megabytes in 60 seconds, 113 Mbit / s.
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Client connecting to 192.168.1.254, TCP port 5001
TCP Window Size: 129 KByte (default)
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[6] Local 192.168.1.193 port 65154 Connected with 192.168.1.254 port 5001
[5] Local 192.168.1.193 port 65150 Connected with 192.168.1.254 port 5001
[7] local 192.168.1.193 port 65151 Connected with 192.168.1.254 port 5001
[8] Local 192.168.1.193 port 65152 Connected with 192.168.1.254 port 5001
[9] Local 192.168.1.193 port 65153 Connected with 192.168.1.254 port 5001
[ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[6] 0.0-60.0 sec 174 MBytes 24.3 Mbits / sec
[5] 0.0-60.0 sec 163 MBytes 22.8 Mbits / sec
[7] 0.0-60.0 sec 161 MBytes 22.6 Mbits / sec
[9] 0.0-60.0 sec 152 MBytes 21.3 Mbits / sec
[8] 0.0-60.1 sec 163 MBytes 22.7 Mbits / sec
[SUM] 0.0-60.1 sec 812 MBytes 113 Mbits / sec
The new adapters are certainly expensive, almost four times as fast transfer speed, it is me but worth it.
Of course, this is always bad, depending on the housing situation, there are certainly better, but also worse results possible.
In past practice test for a few days, there were no crashes and speed has always been stable.
From me therefore a clear recommendation!