It'll be a while until I can do this - both the offending PC and the one useful notebook are occupied by family members studying for exams. There's no room for network experiments before that.

From a standards perspective, they should be. Did you follow procedure to add the new adapters into the existing network?

Depending on the notebook's own WiFi capabilities, 38 MBytes/s may actually be as much as you get. What is the WiFi technology in the notebook, how many antennas does it have, did you make sure the...

Thanks for your assistance. You realize that to trigger the issue, I'll have to put the PC trough a sleep/wake cycle? Will this piece of software be able to record this very moment? Please advise,...

Thou shalt not do this because surge/spike filters also happen to filter out frequencies relevant to powerline networking communications. Plain powerstrips also degrade signal quality, plus the open...

Everything from AV200 to AV2000 is compatible.