TP LINK AV600

sReq | uTeK

Hi all recently got sky q (last week) and was told that it was compatible with powerline.

In the bottom room I've the broadband running into the sky q hub. I just connected the tp link AV600 into the plug socket and the ethernet cable into the sky q hub. Walked up to the attic/office conversion plugged in the other tp link and connected it to the PC via ethernet.

Have 3 green lights but the speed is 1 Meg when I was getting 30 megs wireless.

Need wired in order for gaming.

Is there any additional settings I'm missing?

ED E

Install the TP link utility on your PC. It'll tell you what the link rate and thus signal quality is like.

sReq | uTeK

ED E wrote: »

Install the TP link utility on your PC. It'll tell you what the link rate and thus signal quality is like.

Brilliant thanks. Will do that now.

long_b

Try not to use the TP Link on extension leads if you can - they sometimes don't like them

sReq | uTeK

long_b wrote: »

Try not to use the TP Link on extension leads if you can - they sometimes don't like them

Hi thank you. Both links are going straight into the socket.

sReq | uTeK

so on the TP-Link website and can't find the AV600 just the AV500/750 Utility.

Will these work.

ED E

This should work fine

sReq | uTeK

ED E wrote: »

This should work fine

I've been reading up and it looks like powerline is natively configured within the SKY Q hub, Silver and Mini Box which is interesting. If I turn it on do I still need the AV600's to link into it or would the Mini then act as a router if I put an Ethernet cable from that into the PC.

Again, all im really trying to do here is get a wired connection in the attic room for the purposes of gaming.

I'm sorry for wrecking all your heads with silly questions, networking is not my strong point.

ED E

Read here:
http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/sky-q/59846-using-powerline-sky-q.html

Seems sky may have deployed EoP but not stuck to the PL standards. That means TPs will degrade Sky and Sky will degrade TPs. Idiots.

sReq | uTeK

Saying that its connecting at 86mps

Still getting less than 1 meg on speed test. Have enabled ethernet on the sky router as advised by sky.

Will reboot router and see what happens

Update. Enabled ethernet on the router -gigabit ethernet and nothing. Didn't swap to fast ethernet but I doubt it will make a difference.

Anyway reset router and I'm getting about 30/50 Meg wireless.

I'll just leave it as is. Thanks for all the help

ED E

sReq | uTeK wrote: »

Saying that its connecting at 86mps

Thats shíte, just so you know. Its the link rate, not the throughput.

Mine are linked at 710Mb but really that means 110-140Mb. 85 is a whisper.

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What sort of speeds do you get around the rest of the house using the TP adapter? Is your attice conversion on a different circuit? Do you have either adapter going through a surge protector?

long_b

I've a pair rated at 200 Mb and I'm getting 27 Mb

long_b

This is interesting - real world stats on how these perform.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/charts/powerline/view