For years, I've avoided them and ran sometimes complex cat5 runs for home networking. Well the other day I had some new virgin media equipment installed and because the new Tivo boxes need to be hooked up to your router to get the best out of them, the installation engineer left me a set as a backup.
Well I thought I would hook them up to my sons bedroom as a test. He really struggles to get more than about 15mbps and about a 40ms ping due to walls between him and the router. (we have 200mbps broadband). I literally plugged one of the homeplugs in downstairs and ran it into the Virgin superhub router. Then one into his wall in the bedroom. I didn't even press any buttons on them or check I put the correct one up or down (not sure if it makes a difference).
Ran a quick speedtest and he was pulling 200mbps full broadband speed with a ping of under 20ms.
I checked the model and they are the Netgear PL1000 which are advertised as "gigabit". I know this does not mean they will deliver gigabit so not sure why they use this term in the advertising. I guess the ethernet port on them is a gigabit spec one is what it means?
Curious... I decided to run some tests to see what their absolute speed is and I make it about 270mbps on my home network. I used iperf for these tests.
I guess @ £39.99 I can see why people do not buy them. You can buy 100 metres of cat5/6 for that I suspect and then have no bottleneck. I wonder how fast they will get up to.
I read online of some people finding that they can see their neighbours home network, but I think this is more in flats and shared accommodation where there is no consumer unit or fuseboard between them and the other homeplug. You can also supposedly prevent this by encrypting the send packets I believe by pushing the button on the homeplugs so they sync.
Well I thought I would hook them up to my sons bedroom as a test. He really struggles to get more than about 15mbps and about a 40ms ping due to walls between him and the router. (we have 200mbps broadband). I literally plugged one of the homeplugs in downstairs and ran it into the Virgin superhub router. Then one into his wall in the bedroom. I didn't even press any buttons on them or check I put the correct one up or down (not sure if it makes a difference).
Ran a quick speedtest and he was pulling 200mbps full broadband speed with a ping of under 20ms.
I checked the model and they are the Netgear PL1000 which are advertised as "gigabit". I know this does not mean they will deliver gigabit so not sure why they use this term in the advertising. I guess the ethernet port on them is a gigabit spec one is what it means?
Curious... I decided to run some tests to see what their absolute speed is and I make it about 270mbps on my home network. I used iperf for these tests.
I guess @ £39.99 I can see why people do not buy them. You can buy 100 metres of cat5/6 for that I suspect and then have no bottleneck. I wonder how fast they will get up to.
I read online of some people finding that they can see their neighbours home network, but I think this is more in flats and shared accommodation where there is no consumer unit or fuseboard between them and the other homeplug. You can also supposedly prevent this by encrypting the send packets I believe by pushing the button on the homeplugs so they sync.
