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Powerline Adapter causing issues when gaming Netgear Pl1000v2
This has been an ongoing issue for years throughout multiple games such as CSGO, Valorant, Halo Infinite, R6s pretty much any game that's an fps and is multiplayer. This used to only happen on high tickrate servers like 128 on csgo and valorant but now it even happens on 64 tick on csgo. When i play overwatch with a much lower tickrate though i have no problems. I get random stutters that teleport me back and shots not registering at all not in a game issue related way. Here are some examples. This also only happens on my powerline adapter. I had an old one tp link adapter and it never happened on and neither on wifi
https://gyazo.com/d24522a57373bb7bd30db6721d1f757e
This one could just be a game issue but everyone i know who plays says it is just me and when i watch streams it doesn't take this long to kill someone is relatively quick. Also getting stutter similar to the below examples in halo.
https://gyazo.com/d16814faa837bb60ef178dfdbf81a113
https://gyazo.com/e3a4e03303af4f10e60d94dba15260b9
https://gyazo.com/4bf516d5bf42cb36c6f45aa35fdbf299
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What TP link device is it?
Reason I ask is that powerline devices are sensitive to interference in the power system. As they increased speeds on them, that sensitivity gets worse.Gaming doesn't take a whole lot of bandwidth/speed but is more sensitive to lag/latency issues. If something is injecting interference in the system, you might see more issues on newer hardware that requires a "cleaner" signal. Powerline is usually much better for lag/latency than what wifi is so it makes me curious if your other powerline device was an older one that doesn't necessarily need the higher bandwidth but tolerates interference a bit better.
You could try the powerline on the same power circuit and see if it helps. That's were you'll see the best connection on powerline devices. If it does help on the same circuit but not when its across circuits, then I'd be betting on something injecting interference.
It is called a tp link av500 and also has included wifi. It wasn't in my room so i never plugged an ethernet cable inside of it but my uncle had no problems using it with ethernet and i played on the wifi of it and had no problems in games such as csgo until I replaced it with the one listed above and was the only one using it with ethernet.
this is the av600 but looks identical
Also when pinging my ip address i got no issues or packet loss but was still stuttering. Whenever i pingged 8.8.8.8 i was going from 9-12 ms to 93-260 ms. after 2 hours of playing i started feeling like i was playing on eu servers while my friends are fine. When i left the call and restarted the game i was still getting these stutters showing in the clips but it didn't feel like i was playing on eu servers with high ping. Discord cant be the sole problem though because the valorant gifs are when I'm not in a call but maybe it has something to do with why it felt terrible after the 2 hours?
Here are some more gifs
https://gyazo.com/01efe68083cf0c6e30c696a6494bfae3
https://gyazo.com/a356dd942102b5897b619ca08ca5c31c
https://gyazo.com/ec66a4e3639e345752f4bc262e3c62ba
https://gyazo.com/693cc43f71eeb44480e5a940516754b8
https://gyazo.com/70388e36fc868efc98f2226659d6cfa0
https://gyazo.com/13b94d0f2f13a0b865cdd4d6331fbdd4
https://gyazo.com/2696c10e3da0ce465656812418b24155
https://gyazo.com/9d9e44b12651b1d4f58660f22d549fb4
