ethernet Ethernet hardwiring

[zubairali]

Hi guys so I just upgraded to virgin media’s 1GB speeds and I’m not able to get the most out of it with WiFi. My house electricity runs on 2 circuits so power line in my room with my pc gets under 100mbps speed which is a lot of drop off. I was looking into hard wiring Ethernet and wondered if it would be worth it. 

From my router to my room would be around 30m of cat6 cable. Would this be an okay distance without seeing major drop off in speeds? Or would I need like an enhancer of some sort I’m not too knowledgeable in networking.

 

 

[Dedayog]

7 minutes ago, zubairali said:

Hi guys so I just upgraded to virgin media’s 1GB speeds and I’m not able to get the most out of it with WiFi. My house electricity runs on 2 circuits so power line in my room with my pc gets under 100mbps speed which is a lot of drop off. I was looking into hard wiring Ethernet and wondered if it would be worth it. 

From my router to my room would be around 30m of cat6 cable. Would this be an okay distance without seeing major drop off in speeds? Or would I need like an enhancer of some sort I’m not too knowledgeable in networking.

 

 

I have fiber and use a 100ft cable as well for the distance, eschewing wifi.  I get the full speed from that vs 220Mb on wifi.

 

Just need to figure best way to run it, in your home.

 

This is the cable I use...

 

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WD017BG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

 

Edit;  IIRC, if you have 2 circuits in your home, powerline won't bridge that.  So if you're getting 100Mb or less, it's cuz of the powerline.  If you were on separate circuits, you'd get no signal.

 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Cat 6 is rated for 1Gbps up to 100m. I have a run of Cat 6a (same rating for 1Gbps as Cat 6) that's around 60m long and it works fine. 

 

What powerline adaptors do you have BTW? A lot of them only use 100Mbps ports, so that could be partially responsible for the low bandwidth. 

[bking]

The maximum (recommended) length for CAT6 when communicating at up to 1000 megabits (1 gigabit) is 100 meters, or 328 feet. The maximum length for CAT6 when communicating at 10 gigabit is 55 meters, or 180 feet.  You're well within spec for that cable run.

[zubairali]

13 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Cat 6 is rated for 1Gbps up to 100m. I have a run of Cat 6a (same rating for 1Gbps as Cat 6) that's around 60m long and it works fine. 

 

What powerline adaptors do you have BTW? A lot of them only use 100Mbps ports, so that could be partially responsible for the low bandwidth. 

Cat6 will probably be what I get then. It’s the tp link av1000 which is rather for 1000mbps so I don’t think that was the issue I just assumed the huge drop off was from the distance / circuits