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    [SOLVED] Using TP link Powerline adapters (PA4010) and adding a new CAT7 cable killed my speeds

    Sorry I'm extremely new to Tom's hardware, didn't mean to mark as solved, feeling stupid atm hahaha - honetly I think it might be the age of my powerline boxes as I've had them for a few years now, going to try unplugging them for an evening and see what happens, if it doesnt work going to try...
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    [SOLVED] Using TP link Powerline adapters (PA4010) and adding a new CAT7 cable killed my speeds

    I didn't think so, I'm only confused and asking as, that has been the only change to the powerline environment, so I believe the red LED may have been displaying before, I can see that in the tp-link management software that I'm getting 40-60mbps transfered between the devices but my PC is only...
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    [SOLVED] Using TP link Powerline adapters (PA4010) and adding a new CAT7 cable killed my speeds

    Hey. thanks for the response, both ends are plugged into a wall - nothing has changed apart from the ethernet cable, which I have now changed back, any idea on why the upload speed would be still a good rate but the download speed has completely suffered? Could it be a windows setting?
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    [SOLVED] Using TP link Powerline adapters (PA4010) and adding a new CAT7 cable killed my speeds

    Hey above really - been running an old cable and I was getting about 40mbps download speed, can't recall the upload, after changing the cable it dropped to around 5-10mbps download with 30 upload - after some research discovered the cat7 cable I was using was basically snake oil, so I swapped...