TP-LINK knowingly miss representing their products

[DebatED Nothing]

TP-LINK are knowingly selling products that cannot by design exceed a speed of 100 Mbps as "500 Mbps" devices, with no caveats on the advertising indicating that the actual speed cannot possibly under any circumstances be any more than 1/5 of that. What the actual fuck are they doing? I for one am never purchasing anything from them again after this shit. Frankly disgusting. 

http://www.tp-link.com/en/faq-461.html

"Why TL-PA411 (TL-PA4010) is homeplug 500Mbps with 100Mbps Ethernet port?"

"During the data transmission, the top layer protocol will adds a lot of extra bits to the transmission reducing the actual throughput. So in real terms, the Maximum throughput of Homeplug AV500 circa 240Mbps. And the powerline might be affected by various electrical equipments. With comparatively serious interference, the speed can’t reach up to the max value, in other words, the actual speed might be lower than 240Mbps."

[themctipers]

and thats why

dlink!

[Oshino Shinobu]

This is pretty much standard practice for powerline adapters. They can technically handle an "up to" bandwidth, but only use 100BASE-T ports. It's marketing stuff, that technically isn't lying. You might as well never buy anything from any company if you're so angry at these sorts of marketing techniques. It's very common to advertise the best technical specifications then put the limitations in the small print. 

[DebatED Nothing]

5 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

This is pretty much standard practice for powerline adapters. They can technically handle an "up to" bandwidth, but only use 100BASE-T ports. It's marketing stuff, that technically isn't lying. You might as well never buy anything from any company if you're so angry at these sorts of marketing techniques. It's very common to advertise the best technical specifications then put the limitations in the small print. 

They're overselling the capabilities by more than 500%. That's fucking terrible.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, DebatED Nothing said:

They're overselling the capabilities by more than 500%. That's fucking terrible.

If you don't read the specifications, sure. But it's something that pretty much all companies do. 

[DebatED Nothing]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

If you don't read the specifications, sure. But it's something that pretty much all companies do. 

The "specifications" on the amazon page have no mention whatsoever of this "small detail". It doesn't matter if other companies do it, it's fucking abysmal behaviour and shouldn't be tolerated. http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-PA4016P-KIT-Passthrough-Powerline/dp/B016ZZAVYI?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, DebatED Nothing said:

The "specifications" on the amazon page have no mention whatsoever of this "small detail". It doesn't matter if other companies do it, it's fucking abysmal behaviour and shouldn't be tolerated. http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-PA4016P-KIT-Passthrough-Powerline/dp/B016ZZAVYI?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00

That's Amazon, though. The listing is written by Amazon and sold by Amazon, not TPLink. Also, if you scroll down for the details on Amazon, it does show that there's no Gigabit ethernet. If you look on TPLink's page for the specifications, it's like the second point, saying that it has a 10/100 BASE-T port. 

 

Sure, it's a dick move. Welcome to marketing. 
 

[CtrlAltELITE]

Wouldnt buy TP-Link anyway. Had 3 in a row on RMA fail within 6 months. Replaced my APs with Ubiquiti last year, they where twice the price but not a single problem since I set them up.

[brwainer]

If you have 5 computers each connected to a powerline adapter at 100Mb/s, and the powerline adapters are all 500Mb/s rated, and you were in a perfect house with perfect wiring, you could actually get the network to use the total throughput of 500Mb/s. Another factor is that the 500Mb/s quoted for Powerline is half duplex, meaning it can only talk in one direction at a time, but the 100Mb/s on the ethernet port is full duplex. So a computer connected to a "500Mb/s powerline adapter" could actually be communicating at 200Mb/s (100Mb/s in each direction). Finally there does exist powerline adapters with 4 100Mb/s ports on them, which is really the reason why the 500Mb/s rating exists - since with Powerline Adapters, the whole mesh (all the adapters in your house) run at the speed of the slowest one, and you wouldn't want a one port adapter slowing down the 4 port adapter.

 

A 500Mb/s unit with a 100Mb/s ethernet port is definitely an AV1 standard device though, and you would see significant improvements moving up to an AV2 rated device - even a 600Mb/s unit with a 1Gb/s port might double your speeds - unless you are at the point where the wiring in your house, and not the fancy mathematics, are your bottleneck.