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by molszanski 245 days ago
Try Powerline. This €40 device will turn your electrical sockets into an 100-500 mbps Ethernet cable. Simple and efficient. Just check if sockets you want to connect are on the same circuit breaker. If yes, chances are really high it would work very well.

I’ve connected a switch and a second access point with mine.

Also I think they work best if there fewer of them on the same circuit. But not sure. Check first.

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Powerline almost never comes close to performance of wifi in the same conditions.

It's literally wifi just over an even worse medium.

Through thick brick walls?
Yes. Usually power line also jumps circuits in those cases which massively degrades reliability and throughput.
I tried that but the performance was worse than wifi.
G.hn powerline devices are better than the ancient HomePlug AV2 ones. Which devices did you try?