Cant make use of 100mb speed

MouthBoy · 22 Jan 2015 at 20:17

Yesterday I called Virgin and they allowed me to have 100mb cable at the same price as my current 50mb. Great! Testing from the hub to a laptop via ethernet, I get 109mb, or there abouts. Again thats great!

I go up stairs to my PC that is connected via homeplugs and I am getting only 45mb at best. I know this is could be due to my houses cabling that I am loosing speed, but how would I increase this?

My plugs at Netgear AV500s. When I connect them in the same room I get 85-90mb, so I know the plugs can do the speed but I am unsure if when they are upstairs they are not performing (and its not just the house).

Would purchasing plugs with a Gigibit connection help me out at all or would the house still be the limiting factor?

If this is the case I would have to talk the wife into allowing me to put cabels down the walls (inside them). But this would need much begging.

Any ideas?

Tomsk · 22 Jan 2015 at 20:28

House wiring appears to be the limiting factor, so faster homeplugs are unlikely to help.

The maximum one can expect from homeplugs is about 1/3rd claimed speed.

Orcvader · 22 Jan 2015 at 20:39

Since they're on different floors, they could be on seperate rings which could be causing the drop in speed. Gigabit homeplugs might help but it still will run at a reduced speed.

Honestly the best way is to try and run a long ethernet cable if speed matters. 5GHz wifi could be the next best option if it needs to be tidy.

MouthBoy · 22 Jan 2015 at 20:46

Orcvader said:
Since they're on different floors, they could be on seperate rings which could be causing the drop in speed. Gigabit homeplugs might help but it still will run at a reduced speed.

Honestly the best way is to try and run a long ethernet cable if speed matters. 5GHz wifi could be the next best option if it needs to be tidy.

Yea I have just looked into this and upstrairs is different to downstairs.

The wife has just agreed to let me put ethernet through the wall, so I am now looking at Cat6 down the walls. Any reason not to do this?

Also for some reason I just hate Wifi, so I generally choose not to use it where I can.

GefGz · 22 Jan 2015 at 20:59

Run the cat6, if you can there's absolutely no benefit to not having it. You can get fancy flat cables or armoured cable if you want to run it externally(or internally if you've got curious cats with big claws)

MouthBoy · 22 Jan 2015 at 21:04

GefGz said:
Run the cat6, if you can there's absolutely no benefit to not having it. You can get fancy flat cables or armoured cable if you want to run it externally(or internally if you've got curious cats with big claws)

I was actually looking to go for these:

http://www.screwfix.com/p/philex-cat-6-rj45-single-outlet-kit/78961

GefGz · 22 Jan 2015 at 21:09

smeaney said:
I was actually looking to go for these:

http://www.screwfix.com/p/philex-cat-6-rj45-single-outlet-kit/78961

Yeah that's just the termination point you'll still need the cabling to run to it, having an outlet does make it abit neater in the longrun

MouthBoy · 22 Jan 2015 at 22:12

GefGz said:
Yeah that's just the termination point you'll still need the cabling to run to it, having an outlet does make it abit neater in the longrun

Yea of course. I live in a new build and the inside wall space is quite generous so this will not be a problem, just a bit of work.

themul · 22 Jan 2015 at 22:16

smeaney said:
Yesterday I called Virgin and they allowed me to have 100mb cable at the same price as my current 50mb. Great! Testing from the hub to a laptop via ethernet, I get 109mb, or there abouts. Again thats great!

I go up stairs to my PC that is connected via homeplugs and I am getting only 45mb at best. I know this is could be due to my houses cabling that I am loosing speed, but how would I increase this?

My plugs at Netgear AV500s. When I connect them in the same room I get 85-90mb, so I know the plugs can do the speed but I am unsure if when they are upstairs they are not performing (and its not just the house).

Would purchasing plugs with a Gigibit connection help me out at all or would the house still be the limiting factor?

If this is the case I would have to talk the wife into allowing me to put cabels down the walls (inside them). But this would need much begging.

Any ideas?

I can confirm that running Gigabit plugs makes no difference as I only get 45MB/s upstairs and if connected to the HH5 downstairs via cat 6 cable I get 77MB/s. I have run a cable from downstairs through the wall and back into my bedroom upstairs and I would highly recommend this option over anything else.