Issues with router behind a homeplug :S

Nanostronghold

Nanostronghold

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Hi guys, I recently upgraded to the new Virgin Media superhub with my upgrade to the 30Mb package. Ive always had issues with wireless signal in my house so i got some homeplugs to try. I'm on 30Mb and can pretty much get that speed fine, but if i plug the output of my homeplug into the old netgear router i have so that i can have my PC and xbox wired at once I can only seem to get ~5 - 6 Mb speed, as opposed to ~26Mb when i wire straight from the homeplug to the PC.

Could this be to do with some router settings or something? Anyone have any ideas or tps?

Thanks

Bob
 
I have a feeling, looking at it now that i'm having occasional problems with my actual internet connection and that it just happened to coincide with me connecting up that router :S. Currently getting about 3Mb/s speeds directly connected to the homeplug. I have higher than recommended upstream power on my superhub stats, at about 53DbmV but VM have so far said, Nah it's probably not that. I will see if they eventually agree to fix that and i'll see if the problem persists.

Also, not sure i follow what you said exactly, but It's a router that was originally connected to the old VM modem and i could get 20Mb wired speeds fine then. I was running an ethernet out of the super hub, into the home plug, then out the homeplug and into the ethernet in on the back of the router, the same one that you use to connect the VM modem to the router via ethernet to get wireless internet.
 
Okay, cheers mate. That's really helped. I'm still only getting 5-6Mb speeds lol, but that's not because I had the router set up wrong this time :P. The trouble i'm having now is that i have the ethernet from my homeplug into one of the LAN ports and then my PC and Xbox out another two, but I now can't access the router setup pages for it, I just get redirected to the website. When I had the homeplug connected to the internet port before I could access the router setup, cuz I remember disabling the wireless on it. Any ideas? Or should i just stick the cable back into the internet port to access the settings so I can turn of the DHCP stuff? and then switch back :S
 
Right. Thanks again. Think i've got it just about sorted now. Just waiting on hearing from VM atm. Seems lots of other people are having similar problems after the 30Mb upgrade of having severely reduced speeds. Tempted to ask for a downgrade until it's fixed :P
 
Sorry to double post. As it turns out I am still having issues with reduced speed through this post-homeplug Access point. I have swapped routers to a better one i got off VM a while ago which has an "Access point" option, so i know it's been set up properly, but i'm getting a speed of about 18Mb over wireless but only about 6Mb when wired in to the access point.

I checked with my dad and the house's electrical wiring was redone just a few years ago shortly before we moved in here, so i would assume that degraded wiring isn't the problem. We get really bad WiFi interference and disconnections, which is why I want to connect via homeplugs. The homeplugs are 85Mbps ones so it shouldn't be those causing the speed drop either. I'm at a bit of a loss, so any bright ideas would be appreciated on how i can get the speed up.

Thanks Guys

Bob
 
Oh. Well unless i am misunderstanding you shouldn't need a microfilter. Your ADSL goes into the router. Then you can just get an ethernet homeplug kit and run an ethernet out of the router to the homeplug. Then another from the homeplug to the PC you need the internet on elsewhere.

If you are wanting an ADSL homeplug then you'd just need that microfilter to tap out your homephone, then the other cable would go into the homeplug just fine i would have thought. But if you're using a router i'd go for ethernet anyway.
 
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