Real world powerline speeds

ChuckMountain

thescouselander wrote: »

In my experience power line adapters only come with 100mbps network ports so that's the limiting factor

The "1000+" Mbps ones often have gigabit ports now but yes that is always going to be a limiting factor on a lot of them.

takman

Personally i don't think any Powerline Adaptors will be anywhere near fast enough if your using NAS for large files. I have Gigabit Ethernet to most devices and computers in my house and i get an actual speed of 900 mbits which is maxing out my Mechanical Hard Drives read speed on my Network Storage.

What is stopping you from running an ethernet cable to the computer? Even if you needed a new network card on your computer and had to drill through a couple of walls i would still say its worth it.

womble12345

The main factor stopping me running ethernet cable is the wife, she doesnt want unsightly wires all over the place. I suppose I could drill a hole through the exterior wall in the room containing the router, run the cable along the wall and drill another hole in the lounge wall, I getting increasingly tempted to suffer the earache from the wife in order to get a more stable connection....
Thanks for all the tips.

that

you do get 1gb thoughput adaptors, like this ZyXEL WAC6103DI 1.75 Gbit/s (duplex???) or TP-LINK AV2000, mine are rated at 200mbs, meaning 100 meg each way.

I would also check nic drivers are up to date too using the manufacturer of the nic, rather than windows site.

You should be able to test if via one of these https://www.raymond.cc/blog/network-benchmark-test-your-network-speed/ You could just use ftp, as you do get single file stand alone, often zero security ftp server software, and iometer will check storage throuhput

ChuckMountain

that wrote: »

you do get 1gb thoughput adaptors, like this ZyXEL WAC6103DI 1.75 Gbit/s (duplex???) or TP-LINK AV2000, mine are rated at 200mbs, meaning 100 meg each way.

I would also check nic drivers are up to date too using the manufacturer of the nic, rather than windows site.

You should be able to test if via one of these https://www.raymond.cc/blog/network-benchmark-test-your-network-speed/ You could just use ftp, as you do get single file stand alone, often zero security ftp server software, and iometer will check storage throuhput

Even with the 2000 models you would be lucky to get past 200Mbps. Most test sites have the TP-Link ones at the low 100's depending on the test conditions.

Most of the tests seem to be around 1/10 of the advertised speed. If that isn't dodgy advertising I don't know what is :mad:

200Mbps will typically get around 20Mbps real world.

Doshwaster

thescouselander wrote: »

In my experience power line adapters only come with 100mbps network ports so that's the limiting factor

And some of the older/cheaper ones only comes with 10 Mbps ports yet still claim speeds far faster than they are capable of.

System

ChuckMountain wrote: »

Most of the tests seem to be around 1/10 of the advertised speed. If that isn't dodgy advertising I don't know what is :mad:

200Mbps will typically get around 20Mbps real world.

Its almost like you're confusing megaBITS with MegaBYTES. Including checkbits MByte figures would be around 1/10th that of Mbits. Connect speed will be indicated in bits, File Manager transfer speed is displayed in bytes.

System

Doshwaster wrote: »

And some of the older/cheaper ones only comes with 10 Mbps ports yet still claim speeds far faster than they are capable of.

You've not been able to buy kit with just 10mbps ports without spending silly money for quite a while now.

ChuckMountain

Tarambor wrote: »

Its almost like you're confusing megaBITS with MegaBYTES. Including checkbits MByte figures would be around 1/10th that of Mbits. Connect speed will be indicated in bits, File Manager transfer speed is displayed in bytes.

Oh if it was only that easy, I wish I was confusing bits and bytes that would be a decent explanation but alas no :j

Notice my use of small b hence bits, rather than large B bytes. 1 byte = 8 bits

So have a quick look at that link I posted earlier, these are real world tests, there are others that have similar results but seems to me by my rule of thumb 1/10 of advertised speed.

200Mbps adaptors range from 22.7 - 35.3Mbps (slightly breaking my rule)
500Mbps range from 42.8 - 50.9Mbps
1200Mbps range from 113.0 - 160.1Mbps

Tarambor wrote: »

You've not been able to buy kit with just 10mbps ports without spending silly money for quite a while now.

Ok I better tell some of my kit to charge more for it then


Most people buying these probably wouldn't notice the fact they are performing much slower than advertised. The sync speed might be relatively high if they check but that doesn't mean realworld speed.

Until you need a quicker connection such as video streaming or why does my new VM connection etc. not go fast enough do people look and realise it is often down to powerline adaptors...