Home plug slowing internet speed

rodders · 26 Oct 2012 at 20:32

Hi All,

I have BT Infinity 2 and connected direct to the home hub get 73mbs down / 17mbs up.

I installed some TP-Link AV200 200Mbps Mini Powerline Starter Kit (TL-PA211KIT) directly into a mains socket. Connected up and they say they are connected at 100mbs if I look at 'Local Area Connection Status' If I check in the BT home hub, it says there its connected at 100mbs also.

But my download is 30mbs and 12mbs up.

Now im going from the lower ring to the upper ring and this will go through the distribution board. Is that killing it? New built house, so all new stuff.

Any one else had this?

Mark :confused:

Orcvader · 26 Oct 2012 at 20:38

100mb is the sync speed between the PC to the homeplug, and the HH3 to the homeplug as well.

You can use the TP-Link utility to see what speeds the homeplugs are actually syncing at.

And since it's going from one ring to another, then that's probably the main cause of the speed drop. You're lucky they're still syncing at 30mb odd though, at my place the homeplugs don't even detect each other if they're on different floors

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bledd · 26 Oct 2012 at 21:10

I've never seen home plugs actually run at advertised speeds, no matter what they're reporting in Windows.

My gigabit ones only managed about 14MB per second. Switched to a real cat5e cable instead of the home plugs and it shot up to 80MB.

I use lanspeedtest to measure it

rodders · 26 Oct 2012 at 22:08

Damn, thought they'd be a good idea. Shame...

Will do tests just to see

rodders · 26 Oct 2012 at 23:25

Seems fast?

HangTime · 27 Oct 2012 at 00:01

Something is wrong with those stats, allegedly you are getting about 20Gbit

Personally if I had such a fast connection I'd be using proper Ethernet cable.

bledd · 27 Oct 2012 at 00:43

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heh, you need to type in a shared folder into the 'folder' location, you're currently running the stats on a folder on the same machine!..

ie

\\otherpc\sharedfolder

rodders · 27 Oct 2012 at 08:12

I did wonder, thought it might go through the router and back to pc. Will dig laptop out!

rodders · 27 Oct 2012 at 08:15

HangTime said:
Something is wrong with those stats, allegedly you are getting about 20Gbit

Personally if I had such a fast connection I'd be using proper Ethernet cable.

Its difficult to run a cable to upstaits without the kids destroying it.

rodders · 27 Oct 2012 at 09:18

More like it then... even my wireless laptop is faster than the powerlines. Perhaps I will have to go down the wireless route on my main pc?

bledd · 27 Oct 2012 at 11:39

-have you tested that tool on your wireless though?

I've found wireless to be pretty poor too.

40Mbps is fine for HD streaming etc

Homeplugs are useless in terms of speed in my experience

rodders · 27 Oct 2012 at 12:51

Yup I agree, they are useless!!

Kitchen get 55/16

Both on same downstairs ring 70/18

So DB board is messing it up. DOH!!

Now gonna have to try get a 15-20meter cable run in.

jamjar · 27 Oct 2012 at 15:27

bledd. said:
-have you tested that tool on your wireless though?

I've found wireless to be pretty poor too.

40Mbps is fine for HD streaming etc

Homeplugs are useless in terms of speed in my experience

so would you say usb is faster then ?

bledd · 27 Oct 2012 at 16:08

USB2 tops out at about 35MB/s I think, can't remember the exact figure.

Cat5e is the best option into a gigabit switch/router (the best 'home user' option anyway)

Sumanji · 27 Oct 2012 at 17:03

Slightly OT; are pings better on wireless or homeplugs? Thinking about what would be better for gaming (on PS3 for example).

Cheers,

Su

moogle · 27 Oct 2012 at 17:16

That '100Mbps' connection is from the PC to the Homeplug and Router -> Homeplug, the Homeplug to Homeplug sync speed is what is slowing you.

Homeplugs are better than wireless but they're still crap depending on how good your wiring is.

The 200Mbps TP-Link plugs used to get me around 100 actual Mbps (12~ MB/s) when the utility reported the connection as 198Mbps and that was the best case scenario, usually it was around 60Mbps actual speed I could get.

Even the 500Mbit Devolo passthrough ones I can only get 26MB/s max (200Mbps) when the sync speed is showing at 498Mbit, and that's only sometimes, it's usually only 12-14MB/s all other times.

rodders · 27 Oct 2012 at 18:27

I thought would be ok on a brand new house.
Gonna up the carpet and run a cable. Just annoying i have fast connection and dload is slower than it could be.

moogle · 27 Oct 2012 at 18:36

rodders said:
I thought would be ok on a brand new house.
Gonna up the carpet and run a cable. Just annoying i have fast connection and dload is slower than it could be.

Even still, the electrical wiring is not the greatest for sending data (Unshielded, untwisted etc..)

I haven't even got fibre speeds yet but I'm annoyed that when it does come I won't be able to utilise it all yet.

Worst case scenario would be having ethernet cables routed all around the house.

jamjar · 27 Oct 2012 at 18:58

moogle said:
Even still, the electrical wiring is not the greatest for sending data (Unshielded, untwisted etc..)

I haven't even got fibre speeds yet but I'm annoyed that when it does come I won't be able to utilise it all yet.

Worst case scenario would be having ethernet cables routed all around the house.

I get 69Mbps & 15Mbps on powerlines and my house was built in 1953 it was rewired in the 80,s but i,m happy with that

moogle · 27 Oct 2012 at 19:01

jamjar said:
I get 69Mbps & 15Mbps on powerlines and my house was built in 1953 it was rewired in the 80,s but i,m happy with that

Actual throughput? Or reported utility speed?

Also what rating homeplug? 200MB or 500MB?

If it was 200MB homeplugs or lower then yeah that's pretty good.

It all depends on the noise on your lines and where they route to. Things like chargers, washing machines, vacuums and dimmer lamps put back electrical noise into the wiring lowering the speeds.