Tp power line

spudato7

I have a tp power line pack with one provider and two receivers that both expand the wifi and have two Ethernet ports. They provide 500mbs wired and 300mbs wireless. My question is why, when I have 200 mbs broadband do I get a wired speed of about 60 mbs off the power line and this varies from 20 Mbs to 80 Mbs but is most commonly at 60 mbs

yomamasflavour

As in these?

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/network-wifi/3491664/tp-link-300mbps-av500-wifi-powerline-extender-review/

They don't provide 500Mbs wired or 300Mbs wireless, that's just advertising.
The ethernet ports on it are only 10/100 meaning the most it could ever do wired is 100Mb, not 500Mb. Also no currently available wireless devices will do 300Mbs, again it's just marketing.

To get the full benefit of your 200Mb internet connection you need to wire your house with cat 5e or cat 6 network cable, as well as use gigabit capable equipment.

You would also have to use a wired connection to what ever laptop/desktop that you wish to use.

White Heart Loon

Also, having more than a pair will slow things drastically. They behave like a hub, hubs were phased out years ago and replaced by switches as they slow the more devices on your network.
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/disadvantages-using-hubs-72951.html

As the poster above says, if you want to futureproof run cables, a cat 5e will do gigabit (1000mbit)

spudato7

So if i ran a cat 5e cable to a gigabit switch would that affect home networking at all?

White Heart Loon

spudato7 wrote: »

So if i ran a cat 5e cable to a gigabit switch would that affect home networking at all?

You would have the ideal setup, unlike wireless or homeplugs, cat 5 has separate strands for transmit and receive and would leave you futureproof for years. Gigabit leaves you with plenty of overheads too