powerline problem

seif394 · September 21, 2015

hey guys i got the powerline adapter from netgear

http://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/powerline/XAVB5221.aspx#tab-techspecs

and the weird thing is that it has a 10/100 port but they market it for 500mbps speeds and when i tried i reached the theoretical speed limit of 12mbps of the 10/100 connection am i wrong or they are stupid to market it for 500mps speeds ?

Emanuel_M · September 21, 2015

hey guys i got the powerline adapter from netgear

http://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/powerline/XAVB5221.aspx#tab-techspecs

and the weird thing is that it has a 10/100 port but they market it for 500mbps speeds and when i tried i reached the theoretical speed limit of 12mbps of the 10/100 connection am i wrong or they are stupid to market it for 500mps speeds ?

are you using a cat6 cable if no then that's why.

But at least use a cat5e cable.

KemoKa · September 21, 2015

I don't know much about the hardware limitations of the switch that they're using, I would have thought that it's more dependent on the controller instead of the physical port. As for the actual speed... It really depends on the copper infrastructure of your house. If it's hitting theoretical limits of 10/100... I'd say that the controller they're using is higher spec than 10/100, because there's always going to be overhead with those kinds of connections. It should top out at about 20% below that. I don't know though. Perhaps it's marketing.

tt2468 · September 22, 2015

The chip to transmit the data over the powerlines is 500mbps, but the NIC they use is 10/100. It's like some access points. They can have wireless n300, but only have 10/100 ports on them.

xmx1024 · September 23, 2015

hey guys i got the powerline adapter from netgear

http://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/powerline/XAVB5221.aspx#tab-techspecs

and the weird thing is that it has a 10/100 port but they market it for 500mbps speeds and when i tried i reached the theoretical speed limit of 12mbps of the 10/100 connection am i wrong or they are stupid to market it for 500mps speeds ?

They say it's capable of those speeds but you're limited by the ports max speed of 100mbps.