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The powerlines are a single collision domain so only one of the homeplugs can transmit at any one time. Is like a wireless network or an old network hub. The entire network can do 500mbit wether you have two homeplugs or three or four. Still max speed is 500mbit shared theoretical speed. Why its not worth them putting gigabit ports on. Would only be worth it for a point to point link.
 
bluebeatle said:
The powerlines are a single collision domain so only one of the homeplugs can transmit at any one time. Is like a wireless network or an old network hub. The entire network can do 500mbit wether you have two homeplugs or three or four. Still max speed is 500mbit shared theoretical speed. Why its not worth them putting gigabit ports on. Would only be worth it for a point to point link.
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Doesn't make sense to me, I have 4 homeplugs and easily exceed 100mbit speeds in my day to day use.
 
Minstadave said:
Doesn't make sense to me, I have 4 homeplugs and easily exceed 100mbit speeds in my day to day use.
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The tp link article explains it better. Just saying the best speed your ever going to get even with gigabit ports for av500 is 240mbit. Once you start adding more adapters the available bandwidth stays the same but is now shared between all adapters in the network. That's under perfect conditions. Once you put it in real world conditions the 240mbits figure will probably go down even further.
 
bluebeatle said:
The tp link article explains it better. Just saying the best speed your ever going to get even with gigabit ports for av500 is 240mbit. Once you start adding more adapters the available bandwidth stays the same but is now shared between all adapters in the network. That's under perfect conditions. Once you put it in real world conditions the 240mbits figure will probably go down even further.
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I understand their points, I use mine in the real world and easily exceed 100mbps speeds.
 
I have added a couple of additions to the range to see if the different brand has more of a liking.

I have seen good comments about the products and I will give them a shot for another option for you guys.
 
I have been using these for a while now, they are great. Albeit I am the only one using them on the network and it is in a new(ish) house so the electrics are decent. I have only noticed a 1/2ms increase in my ping for most games from me sitting plugged into the router downstairs.
 
Has anyone experienced interference with neighbours houses before?

We live in a detached house, and I was wondering why every so often I would get the BT homepage when loading up the net...

...turns out neighbours have powerline and mine somehow was connecting to theirs!

Questions just how secure these things are.
 
Have you had a look to see if the manual has a section on setting up the security as I do believe they can sometimes on a rare occasion pick up the other signal from a neighbour but you should be able to stop it.
 
Robbie_G said:
Have you had a look to see if the manual has a section on setting up the security as I do believe they can sometimes on a rare occasion pick up the other signal from a neighbour but you should be able to stop it.
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To be honest, no I havn't.

They are the 200 TP-Link ones, very impressed with them apart from the slight hiccup above. Stable connection and much better than the wifi :)
 
Hi,

I agree they are a good addition and provide a better connection. I do believe that it does have security setup options if needed but as you say it is rare so it is still a good plug and play option.
 
Haggisman said:
Just ordered a couple of the TP-Links with passthrough... plenty of Haribo please :p
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So, these just turned up:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £39.38
(includes shipping: £7.39)
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Quick speed test has shown:

Old wifi: ~ 11ms ping / 26meg download.
New powerlines: 7ms ping / 54meg download.

My internet is 50meg virgin, so can't complain :)

(also got some Haribo, cheers! :))
 
Id love these as I'm a floor above the router but the electric circuits in my house are a bit different, so won't allow for it to work. I don't know it works, but been told it just "doesn't"
 
digitalx said:
Id love these as I'm a floor above the router but the electric circuits in my house are a bit different, so won't allow for it to work. I don't know it works, but been told it just "doesn't"
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The plugs need to be on the same electrical circuit for the best signal.

They can cross to another circuit through your fusebox/consumer unit usually with a worse signal, I drop from 100 to 50 through the consumer unit with router downstairs and me one floor up.

I'm currently extending the ground floor circuit with a (regular power) extension cable upstairs to get the full speed.
 
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