Wired Lan - Homeplugs & Sky Hub - Only Gettting 30Mbps

[sare^baw's]

I have been using wireless for my networking for sometime now, even after upgrading to 'n' i found i was not able to stream movies from my pc to laptop.

Recently i moved home so i can now get up to 18Mbps download speed, i have the new sky hub. I thought if i had my main pc wired to the sky hub this would help my network speed having one side of it wired.

So here is what i have

hub - homeplug a - homeplug b - network switch - Pc

hub - wireless to laptop

I was seeing a transfer write speed of 25Mbps testing with LAN speed test. If i was using teamviewer and was downloading at full speed this was affecting my network speed down to about 10Mbps.

Next i tried my laptop wired directly to the hub, this took me up to 30Mbps but again this drops if im using teamviewer and downloading. So even fully wired is not that fast. Movies stream fine if i leave teamviewer closed and dont download at the same time.


So any suggestions on why i my network speed is not that great.

here is my hardware

2 x TP-Link AV200 Powerline Adapter

TP-Link TL-SF1005D 5-Port 10/100 Switch

Sky Hub Router

TP-Link TL-WN823N 300Mbps Mini Wireless N USB Adapter

 

[sare^baw's]

If I'm reading it correctly, your limitation is going to be the Powerline connection.

Make sure the Powerline adapters are plugged in directly to a wall socket for best performance. If that doesn't help consider replacing them with AV500 adapters (or install a network cable instead).

Cheers, I have the adapters plugged straight into the wall, they are rated at 200Mbps so i would have thought these would have done the job, i have lost faith in these, i bought them to avoid running a cable across my living room and im very dissapointed in them.

Just cable it up. I wasted too much time / money trying to get decent wireless performance, then various powerline adapters. It's just not the same as wiring it up properly.

Cheers I connected my laptop and pc directly to the sky hub and am getting 88Mbps, so thats good, having my laptop wired is not practical, so i will use it wireless and keep the pc wired directly to the sky hub, using my Tp-link mini usb adapter i can get 60Mbps which is still not bad. I also had my wireless usb adapter right next to a wireless mouse receiver on my laptop, this was making it about 45Mbps, moving the wireless adapter to the other side of my laptop took it up to 60Mbps. So im happy, i can use teamviewer and download at full speed and stream hd movies without any problems.

many thanks for the great help guys, i wish i had known powerline adapters were rubbish and saved a lot of time and money.

 

[sare^baw's]

Powerline adapters are a mixed blessing, you'll find you'll hardly ever reach the rated speeds on any of them. It largely depends on the power cabling set up in your house - the older it is, as a rule of thumb, the worse the signal strength you'll get. The place I'm in has quite old cabling running through it (although the sockets are relatively new), and I get at best 10 MB.

Like bledd, I gave up, drilled a hole and shoved a network cable through

My house is very old and i have no idea how old the wiring is but it looks like i was doing well compared to you. Ill just have to live with seeing the cable and fit it against the skirting.