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Situation: Second floor PC needs to connect to a modem in the basement.
Infrastructure: Working Wifi, working powerline adapters. Direct Ethernet not an option.
Reliability is judged by latency over time measured by graphing the ping to the modem with an app such as PingPlotter Pro.
Both connection options suffer reliability issues at different times. Wifi probably due to random interference, powerline networking due to random appliances and the whims of neighbors. (example: recently all those Christmas lights have been making the powerline network a complete mess)
Problem: Find a way to combine Wifi and powerline networking such that one can compensate for failure of the other.
Failure: Latency spikes and packet loss.
Sure a cable isn't an option? Looked into using the air vents (hot or return), or existing coax? – Xen2050 – 2016-01-02T02:27:56.617