[SOLVED] Devolo Magic 2 wifi next : worst than regular wifi ?

[tgiovannangeli]

Hello,

I just moved in my house and I work from home
I needed a perfect connection

Close to my internet box I have 900 mbps and in my office upstairs it's 300 mbps (which is not bad but I wanted more)

I bought the Develo Magic 2 Wifi next kit and when I set up everything my max is 80 mbps
But it says in the box it can go up to 1200 mbps so I don't get it

Is someone knows how to fix it or what did I do wrong ?

ps : I have the same speed with wire or wifi via devolo

Thank you so much

 

[bill001g]

That is because you think there is a "magic" solution to your problem.

I am somewhat surprised that you only get 80mbps, most people get over 200mbps with the newer powerline technology.

Very technically they try to claim 2000mbps when you are using a ethernet cable. The 1200 is the fairly standard wifi lie. If you were to run a ethernet cable all the way to your room and hook a 1200 AP to it you might get 300mbps next to it if you were lucky.
If you are getting 900 on your current router it is likely you are using wifi6 where it has a "lie" number in the 3000 or more range.

Getting 300mbps upstairs away from the router is actually a very good number. Wifi6 and wifi in general only gets the very fast speeds when you are close to the router. That is going to be about as good as it gets using any wifi solution.

The reason you use powerline networks rather than wifi is not because it is faster. You use powerline because the latency is more stable. This is mostly important to people that play online games and to some smaller extent people that do video conferencing.
In these cases having very consistent latency is much more important than bandwidth. Something like a game only uses 1mbps up and down when you are playing. Having more bandwidth provides no benefit, it is much more important the latency/ping time is stable.

You have to ask yourself what application do you use actually needs huge bandwidth. Most more normal internet use does not need a lot. Even 4k netflix is only 25mbps or so.

In any case the only technology that is going to give you more than 300mbps is MoCA. You need coax wire in both rooms to use MoCA. The newer MoCa units can easily get full gigabit speeds with low latency, but many people do not have coax wire in both rooms.

 

[tgiovannangeli]

hello,

thank for your answer

Indeed I think there is a magic solution because I pay for it ^^
More seriously, I wanted to increase to speed of my internet and clearly I don't want stability (even though I know it's important)

So If my internet speed is better with my current wifi, I'm gonna just return it because it doesn't give me more speed

And yes it's a wifi 6

 

[bill001g]

Marketing guys should have to work the customer service return counters maybe they would not write such deceptive advertising.

 

[gggplaya]

80mbps is typical for powerline depending on the house.

If you want both speed and stability, you may want to try MOCA adapters if you have coaxial tv/internet outlets in both rooms. This will give you actual gigabit speeds using your existing wiring for tv/internet.

But if I were you, instead of buying these magical overpriced wifi systems for your house. Since you WORK FROM HOME, I would pay the several hundred dollars and have a professional run ethernet up to your office. Your work is your livelyhood and it's important to have a solid connection with full speeds. It's cheaper than the wear and tear on your car from driving to the office.

There's nothing better than a direct ethernet connection.