Hardline adapters

[TheVoice]

I guess no one else is as fussy as me

I like having 100MB/s network transfer speeds. Don't see powerline getting close to that.

That's no reason to constantly rubbish them though. Your solution to networking might be to run CAT5 everywhere but for many people that isn't feasible, possible or necessary.

 

[docsonic]

Thanks for the reply's guys, i found some cheap £20 ones i will try, im sure my 1mb download speed will transfer through the wiring

How are they working out for you?

 

[kona786]

I get 130MB transfer speeds on my Zyxel 600MB Gigabit powerlines.

MB or Mb?

That was bledd's point on post 16.

Nobody is getting close to 50MB/s over Powerline let alone 100. Upto 10MB/s is enough for most.

 

[Kelt]

MB or Mb?

That was bledd's point on post 16.

Nobody is getting close to 50MB/s over Powerline let alone 100. Upto 10MB/s is enough for most.

Ah right, it's Mbps. Fast enough to stream 1080P which is good enough for me. Over twice as fast as my last pair (200Mbps) which struggled with HD streams.

 

[IceWind]

mu powerlines give me 95mb through put and thats across and external cable in my property up my man cave up the back of the garden.

 

[bledd]

mu powerlines give me 95mb through put and thats across and external cable in my property up my man cave up the back of the garden.

Pics

 

[MichaelAwkward]

not 100MB/s it won't

Indeed. But a decent pair of AV2 adapters will get up to 20MB/s in the right conditions, which is plenty fast enough for just about everyone.

And where did 80% of rated speed come from? Even the good stuff only achieves about 25% of the headline speed rating.

I'm sure I read reviews quoting those figures when I was researching which ones to buy, but it may have been 80% of ethernet speeds rather than rated speed. Can't remember. Still perfectly decent. My £13.99 pair of Netgear ones get me 60% of the speed of our Virgin connection over dodgy wiring.

 

[matthab]

Power line is great my 3 year old Netgear boxes work at about 120mb/s out of the 200 they can do. That is also over quite a long run and not great cabling. That is fine for gaming on, streaming HD films and other traffic.

I am however moving the router to my office and putting and access point in the front room. Which means all heavy traffic goes straight out without having to go over the power plugs.

I will be replacing them soon with something a bit faster.