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cjgardens

cjgardens

cjgardens

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hey

i just got a half decnt deal with virgin.

before i was on 350mb package and on my pc with my tp link av1300 home plugs i was getting 370mb download speed

now i have gig internet, nothing has changed apart from the hub and im getting 200-250.

i have router - 8 meter cat6 - home plug - directly up above, home plug - 1 meter cat6 - pc

so, i dragged my pc downstairs, nearly killed me with all the rads and water hahha, pluged cable in direct and im getting 900mb,
whats confusing me is, if it worked before and i was maxing out my old router, with same setup, why do i have a problem now?

any ideas, thanks


also, my son has the same plugs and same speeds in his room and now the same issue :(
 
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Have you tried to see what speeds the plugs are reporting internally to each other on the tpPLC manager tool vs what you are getting from the router via whichever external dpeedtest you are using?

If not, it's probably worth giving it a look to try and narrow the cause down.
 
5abr3 said:
Have you tried to see what speeds the plugs are reporting internally to each other on the tpPLC manager tool vs what you are getting from the router via whichever external dpeedtest you are using?

If not, it's probably worth giving it a look to try and narrow the cause down.
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No, i didn't know you could do that. Ill try that thank you!
 
5abr3 said:
I'm expecting you'll get similar restricted speeds as you are reporting from your testing.

I have a few AV1000's and they are getting around 650 to 850
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its saying 845

so do you think its the cable to my pc? the one to mine and my sons are both from virgin media that will of come with tv boxs, both are cat6 tho.
 
That's a strange one, if you have any other cables around it can't hurt to try swapping them. I would guess its the one between the router and the adapter local to the router. Is there anything else on the network, particularly connected to the router?
 
Very odd. Something to do with the new Hub not playing nicely with the power line adaptors? You haven't plugged it in via an extension lead or anything since then?
 
5abr3 said:
That's a strange one, if you have any other cables around it can't hurt to try swapping them. I would guess its the one between the router and the adapter local to the router. Is there anything else on the network, particularly connected to the router?
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Ive tested router to pc. Getting 900mb with that. So it must be the virgin cable. Ill buy another cable today, hopefully that sorts it out. Even if i get around 800mn ill be happy.

Its really puzzling me that with the old router i was get a faster speed. That just makes no sense.

2 PC's phones and tv. Thats it.
 
If its a new hub, might be worth looking to see if there is some sort of quota system for bandwidth per port? Never used Virgin so that's very much a hail Mary guess!

The extension lead question from Minato is a good point too.
 
Minato said:
Very odd. Something to do with the new Hub not playing nicely with the power line adaptors? You haven't plugged it in via an extension lead or anything since then?
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Sorry missed that question. Im on my phone

No, straight into the wall.

The hub has a few ports. One says something like 2.5ghz i think. But ive tried different ports on the hub as well and the plugs

Going getting another cable. Im praying its virgins cables. As both the ones to my computer and my sons are virgin cables but the one feom the router to the first plug are from the auction site
 
cjgardens said:
Sorry missed that question. Im on my phone

No, straight into the wall.

The hub has a few ports. One says something like 2.5ghz i think. But ive tried different ports on the hub as well and the plugs

Going getting another cable. Im praying its virgins cables. As both the ones to my computer and my sons are virgin cables but the one feom the router to the first plug are from the auction site
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Do you still have the old cables that you were using before that you could try swapping out with? Also, are you able to log into the router and see what speeds you're getting per port (or via an app?).
 
Minato said:
Do you still have the old cables that you were using before that you could try swapping out with? Also, are you able to log into the router and see what speeds you're getting per port (or via an app?).
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its the same setup cable wise. just the router got swapped

with the site sam knows it says router 1144 / device (desktop) 235
with the TP app it says the conection between plus is 898 now everyone has gone school/work and just the pc and router is on
 
cjgardens said:
its the same setup cable wise. just the router got swapped

with the site sam knows it says router 1144 / device (desktop) 235
with the TP app it says the conection between plus is 898 now everyone has gone school/work and just the pc and router is on
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Hmm, very odd that if everything else is the same the cables would suddenly stop working well.

And I can see you've tried a new cable as well to no avail.

I suppose the logical next step is to try different powerline adaptors.
 
Minato said:
Hmm, very odd that if everything else is the same the cables would suddenly stop working well.

And I can see you've tried a new cable as well to no avail.

I suppose the logical next step is to try different powerline adaptors.
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Think im going to drill a hole in the ceiling. But i need to work out the best way to get good speeds to my sons pc in the next room without drilling more hiles and more cables.
 
cjgardens said:
Think im going to drill a hole in the ceiling. But i need to work out the best way to get good speeds to my sons pc in the next room without drilling more hiles and more cables.
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In an ideal world you can just run one cable to your loft, stick a switch in there, and then drop cables into each room you want a wired connection.

Short of that, one drop to a ceiling mounted AP and then a wifi card in the PCs would probably be ok-ish?
 
@Minato and @5abr3 so after hours and hours of messing with diffent sockets, wires and updating drivers and the firmware on the plugs,
i decided to rip the carpet up and the floor board, stick a hole in the celling and run a wire.

its amazing how fast P hub loads now :D

think next step is to get a splitter, then run the home plug from my run to my sons room and hopefully, because its on the same cuircuit, it should run fine

anyways, thanks for your help!
 
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Being on different circuits certainly doesn't help things given the RCD's will act as filters, I have one just the other side of an RCD that is only used very rarely and having switched it on it is getting about 150mbps to all bar one of the others (that one is also close to the RCD the rest are behind.

I thought the AV1300 was a split kit with one of the units having multiple ethernet ports? If so, try using that as your switch in the room with the hard line down to the router, plug your desktop in to that too and that  should be that...
 
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Being on different circuits certainly doesn't help things given the RCD's will act as filters, I have one just the other side of an RCD that is only used very rarely and having switched it on it is getting about 150mbps to all bar one of the others (that one is also close to the RCD the rest are behind.

I thought the AV1300 was a split kit with one of the units having multiple ethernet ports? If so, try using that as your switch in the room with the hard line down to the router, plug your desktop in to that too and that  should be that...
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ah yeah your right.

just tried it.

im now getting 950 and my sons is up to 350 so its a bit better.

ill have a play with differnt socets and see how it goes,

thanks again
 
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