Gigabit on Powerline?

[jamesman8]

I bought a TPLink AV1200 and am wondering what my real speed will actually be through the network. I have Verizon Fios Gigabit, getting 140mbps download on 5GHz wifi, but 934mbps on ethernet. What can I expect over powerline if I have decent quality electrical wires?

[Jaxder]

Depends on your powerline adapter and cables. I don't think it is really consistent though.

[DrBonesMcCoy]

If you get a high end adapter you could get 1 gigbit. Although your wiring affects this greatly

 

[Guest]

I had to use these for about a week. From the basement to the second floor was getting 350Mbps down and around 200 up. Though it felt slower than that at times. There's just too many factors to know what you'll get without implementing it.

 

Edit: I also have Fios gigabit.

[pxnguinPr3]

6 minutes ago, jamesman8 said:

I bought a TPLink AV1200 and am wondering what my real speed will actually be through the network. I have Verizon Fios Gigabit, getting 140mbps download on 5GHz wifi, but 934mbps on ethernet. What can I expect over powerline if I have decent quality electrical wires?

Probably not.

As in,

98% chance not,

unless your house was built in the last year and cost like alot.

 

so basically.

 

No.

 

You'd be more likely to get gigabit on wifi.

 

and thats unlikely.

 

so no.

[burnttoastnice]

I use a powerline in my current setup, it's rated 300 (marketing nonsense as the connectors are only Fast Ethernet 100) and I get about 52 out of it, which is pretty decent in my opinion, considering the wifi kept dropping out. But then again, another person in the same house has the exact same powerline pair running on a different channel, and he gets around 54 download. Plugged directly into the router I get 220.

 

I think you can get about 200mbps minimum out of it at a decent distance, assuming tplink are using high quality encoding and decoding equipment inside the adapters, which is still pretty fast. Alternatively, assuming the 200 out of the 1200mbps is overhead, you might get a full gigabit out of it, but I think that's unlikely. Try it out though, as I've only used cheaper powerlines and not the more expensive TPLink ones. Worst case scenario you can return it and get a refund.

 

If I was in your scenario though I'd just run ethernet directly from the router to the desktop, the protocol itself is good at handling shitty cables and long distances.

[IrwinAllen13]

If you already have the two powerline adapters, then why not run a iperf3 test. This does require two computers to perform this test on the local area network.

 

As Burnttoastnice mentioned, just run an Ethernet cable. There are great ways to hide cables. Personally, i just moved into a new apartment and tested out Power Adapters, Wireless Repeaters, and Ethernet. For my network, Ethernet was the fastest on my Gig internet. So i pulled back the carpet ran a cable, and then re-stapled the carpet down.

[jamesman8]

21 minutes ago, IrwinAllen13 said:

If you already have the two powerline adapters, then why not run a iperf3 test. This does require two computers to perform this test on the local area network.

 

As Burnttoastnice mentioned, just run an Ethernet cable. There are great ways to hide cables. Personally, i just moved into a new apartment and tested out Power Adapters, Wireless Repeaters, and Ethernet. For my network, Ethernet was the fastest on my Gig internet. So i pulled back the carpet ran a cable, and then re-stapled the carpet down.

That's difficult for me to do. My router has almost 5 walls between me and it, and I'm on the second floor, one above the router.

[IrwinAllen13]

Well, that will become a problem with multiple floors between you.

 

If you have them already, and you are curious about the true Local Network Speed then running a iPerf3 test will tell you the throughput for both TCP and UDP based traffic. It is (in my opinion) the best way to test your network speed.

 

Here is a link to iperf just in case you are wondering (every network engineering type should have a copy of this tool).

 

https://iperf.fr/iperf-download.php