200 Mbps powerline only transferring 40 Mbps

[leftisthominid]

My Internet is 100-110 Mbps. I have a 200 Mbps powerline adapter, and it is only transferring 40 Mbps into the living room.

Does anyone have similar experiences? If so, would a faster adapter help, or is this just what my wiring can handle?

Thanks!

 

[drtweak]

how far is it? you have to under stand that if it is on different breakers you will have a speed drop. I have one client who has the same thing but gets around that much.

 

[bill001g]

Why would you think you get 200m that is a magic marketing number that represents a artificial lab condition. You can tell the manufactures even know they lie when they put a 100m port on the device. The vast majority of the 500m models also only have 100m ports since they too in the real world can not run at 100m.

You are getting about what the sites that test these devices in the real world say you should get. The 500m ones get about double what you are seeing so the only way you are going to get 100m or more is to buy the latest technology.....these claim 600 or 1200m. They are lucky to get 200m.

This is without factoring in your house wiring.....but if you get 40m on 200m units you have pretty good connections so the 1200m models should give you 100m of real throughput.

 

[leftisthominid]

how far is it? you have to under stand that if it is on different breakers you will have a speed drop. I have one client who has the same thing but gets around that much.

I've got an 800 sq ft condo. The modem is all the way on one end and the second powerline adapter is in the living room, near the midpoint of the condo length.

I have one router in my bedroom (which doesn't broadcast that well) and another, older router in the living room, which is plugged into the powerline adapter and is acting as a switch/access point. Plugging my laptop into the older router or into the powerline adapter in my living room either way only gets ~40 Mbps. I am guessing to get closer to 100 Mbps in my living room, I should probably just look into a better router than can broadcast better.

 

[dexter2]

how far is it? you have to under stand that if it is on different breakers you will have a speed drop. I have one client who has the same thing but gets around that much.

I've got an 800 sq ft condo. The modem is all the way on one end and the second powerline adapter is in the living room, near the midpoint of the condo length.

I have one router in my bedroom (which doesn't broadcast that well) and another, older router in the living room, which is plugged into the powerline adapter and is acting as a switch/access point. Plugging my laptop into the older router or into the powerline adapter in my living room either way only gets ~40 Mbps. I am guessing to get closer to 100 Mbps in my living room, I should probably just look into a better router than can broadcast better.

The most likely case is that your powerline isn't good enough for your connection. On the box it will say 100mbps, but it is HIGHLY unlikely that you will achieve this speeds. This goes with all powerline adapters.