Powerline adaptor only yielding ~10Mbps

[Mas3nk0]

Downstairs I am getting ~50Mbps while upstairs over a powerline adaptor (AV500 Nano) I am only receiving roughly 10Mbps from a speedtest. Both adaptors are close to the wall socket and there are no other devices disturbing the measurement at the time of test (dish washer or cellphone charge). Any ideas because wireless on my laptop I am getting ~30Mbps so if this can't be improved then I am better off switching to a USB with a WIFI connection.

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!

 

[bill001g]

Unfortunately that is not a uncommon thing. Generally the shorter the distance the better it works but you never really know how the wires run. Also when you are running on a 120 volt system there are 2 powered connection coming to the house. They are pretty much separate and you may have to go all the way to the transformer in the street but it also bleeds across 240 volt equipment in the house. So 2 outlet in the same room but on different sides of the breaker panel can be very far apart.

Just like wireless it is really impossible to predict how well this stuff will work in particular homes. Be happy you do not have a very new house that has the newest code required circuit breakers. Many arc fault breakers completely block the signal so powerline can not even go between different circuits in the house.

 

[Mas3nk0]

Unfortunately that is not a uncommon thing. Generally the shorter the distance the better it works but you never really know how the wires run. Also when you are running on a 120 volt system there are 2 powered connection coming to the house. They are pretty much separate and you may have to go all the way to the transformer in the street but it also bleeds across 240 volt equipment in the house. So 2 outlet in the same room but on different sides of the breaker panel can be very far apart.

Just like wireless it is really impossible to predict how well this stuff will work in particular homes. Be happy you do not have a very new house that has the newest code required circuit breakers. Many arc fault breakers completely block the signal so powerline can not even go between different circuits in the house.

So could different sockets in the same room yield significant differences?

 

[bill001g]

You never really know without trying. In general all the outlets in one room are all hooked to the same wire.

 

[Mas3nk0]

You never really know without trying. In general all the outlets in one room are all hooked to the same wire.

Other socket and went up to 40Mbps ... go figure ...

 

[Mas3nk0]

The 40Mbps was achieved with a laptop and when I plug in the desktop power and screen power it drops back to 12Mbps. Any ideas?

 

[bill001g]

Likely the desktop or monitor power supply is causing interference. What many times helps is to plug this equipment into a power strip with a surge protector on it. Even a extension cord might help. Both these tend to absorb the signals in the range used by the powerline devices. This is why they say you must plug the powerline devices directly into the wall.

You only other option would be to try to plug the computer into a different outlet than the powerline devices.

If you get really desperate it is generally a cheap power supply in the computer that cause things like this. You could replace the power supply with a higher quality one....but there really is not way to be sure if this will help.