Powerline woes - or is this normal?

Witor

Witor

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Ok, Compaq NX5000 laptop with a 500GB USB Drive attached.

Local Transfer rate from USB drive to c: laptop - 22mb/sec or so, which is fine. Laptop is running Vista x32

Network is as follows:

Laptop --> switch --> Powerline plug --> Powerline plug --> PC

PC is Running Vista x64
Plugs are Dynamode E85LC's

I'm only getting a max of 680/700kb/sec when copying files off the USB Drive attached to the laptop onto the PC. Have replaced all network cables just in case.

Fairly new wiring in the house...is this a normal transfer rate or am I missing something basic here?
 
Bit more info:

If I bypass the switch, and use the a Belkin ADSL Router and it's integrated 4 rj45 ports, there's no change in transfer speed...
 
Copy some files directly off the laptop see how the speed is then ( that way the
usb is out of the equation )

I gave up on my powerline plugs ( too inconsistant) for my liking
 
Is the laptop vista aswell? there are known issues and fixes for sending between XP and vista (FTP should be anaffected though for testing).

Very slow speeds can be a result of duplex mismatch. It's unlikely on modern SOHO gear as it's all autosensing but you could try checking to see that the Homeplugs match their attached devices duplex mode.
 
Laptop - Vista 32 Sp1
PC - Vista x64 Sp1

Just Tried with a very old Asus laptop with XP Sp2...not had enough time to properly meter it, but judging by the file transfer box, it's as slow as the Vista machine, so problem definitely isn't the old XP/Vista networking thing.
 
check the duplex settings then. If in doubt set it to 10mbit half duplex manually. Then if the other device tries to auto neg it'll fail and revert to that speed anyway. You should still see speeds of about 1MB/s. Ideally try manaually setting it to 100meg full duplex.
 
Vista lies when reporting transfer speeds, inital values very oftern climb steadily, monitor the network connection instead using task manager it will give a better indication of the steady state.

800-900 kbps sounds close to the worst transfer speed across my house when i had 85mbps units, the others did much much better. Are you sure they are bits not bytes?
 
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