Slow Homeplug Network

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Have a BT Broadband router, connected to a Homeplug adaptor. Then have my PC and printer on separate adaptors. This has always worked fine with top notch download speeds. Recently added a linux server which in itself works fine, however the network transfer rates are rubbish and downloads seem to have suffered a bit.

The only network connection from the router is the one adaptor into the mains, so am I right in assuming that having too many adpators attached (via the mains) to the one adaptor into the router slows things down? I still haven't got my head round the idea of the router's adaptor effectively acting like some sort of switch, which it must do as there is only one connection going into the router.

If I bought another Homeplug adaptor and connected that to the router and paired it exclusively with the server (by changing the name in the configuration software) and then had the PC and printer connected as before to another adaptor into the router, would that speed things up?
 
I am no expert but I just installed the same homeplug adapters to great effect on saturday.

I have been having problems with wifi ever since moving to SKY ISP. Wont bore with detail but I was ending up running leads and hardwiring the PC up and having to move router to play my 360. Not good or desirable

So the homeplugs arrived and I plugged them in, installed the small diagnostic app and all worked well but slow around 9Mbps speeds instead of the touted 85Mbps.

I had read that you really need to plug both the homeplugs directly into the wall socket, not through extensions ( as i had ). I tried this and it jumped from around transfer rates of 9 Mbps to now hovering at about 79Mbps. problem solved from crao , dropping wifi to great service in a literal 5 minte install. So try and reconfigure your power needs and plud them in driect.
walks all over crappy wifi .
Hope it helps

KJ
 
To fair, it's the first time I've had a server on my network or tried downloading things to/from my laptop, so it may not be a Vista issue although a search on the internet doesn't hold much hope!

I need to check they're not on extension leads - like you said, that would be a really easy fix! Having said that, I can download off the internet faster than I can transfer between computers, so I don't hold out much hope of this helping, but willing to try..
 
You can have many homeplug adapters on the mains but as all traffic going that way has to share a fixed bandwidth you get more traffic jams. adding onther channel to the router will not help though you can try connecting it with an ethernet cable to see if that helps at all (are you confident the ports, shares and firewall if any are OK?)

You will find if you have 3 or more adapters that route speeds between these vary depending on location. Install the signal strnght utility and see which connectiosn are the poorest and try diffferent sockets etc if you can.

Homeplugs a great repalcemnt for wifi but a file servers going to max out the connection.
 
I thought I was killed by the bandwith so had my desktop attached via Homeplug and the server attached by a long ethernet cable, but it made no difference.

I changed the TCP setting on my desktop PC and that improved things a lttle to about 1.5MB/s, but that's still crap. I only really use my server at the moment for backup, so file transfer speed is not a major problem compared to not having a backup (and I can leave it to back up overnight) but I'm going to want to stream soon and it's going to cause a real headache.

Will try connecting all the bits by ethernet cable and see if that makes a difference. At least then I'll know it wasn't the Homeplug - surely it shouldn't reduce network flow by that much!
 
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