When I first found them, I took was amazed you could use mains wiring to network. I used them to get internet on the second floor on the opposite side of the house, worked great at the time.

They worked here on a single ring, but crossing 2 consumer units seems to have killed it

I would agree with that, but here in the UK we dont have coax in every room

I would not, but we had a working system so moving things about should have been fine. I think running over 2 consumer units adds to the latency

ping times have gone from 2ms and up to under 1ms, but thats how I got into them was to get internet from ground floor to second floor

off to start UKVPNS to start my own internet

Ok, switch in the shed/office into switch in the garage, switch in the garage into powerline to switch by the router.

Run cable from the garage to the switch by the router and remove 1 of 3 powerline plugs, so yeah just removing a single plug helps so much

Yep, too lazy to run ethernet

Not POE, the opposite. Ethernet over power, powerline?

They were called homeplug at 1 point

Yes powerline, they were called homeplugs at 1 point

Oh, iOS or Android?

Your issue is using a non-routable IP on a public DNS provider, some home routers will assume it’s a miss configuration and drop it.

If your only going to use the domain over a VPN and local network, I would use something like pihole to do the DNS.

If you want access from the internet at large, you will need your public IP in your DNS provider.

Oh, that’s a shame. Maybe need to see why?

I have the notes, files and news apps all connected just fine.

If it’s over your VPN, does your phone now how to find nextcloud?

That is gold right there

I know this is said a lot, but nextcloud does all that.

As an added benefit the files are just in a directory that you could edit if needed

I run gogs and that looks to have LFS support, but depending on your requirements that might not be enough.

I may have skewed the results