Cheap TP-Link Gigabit Powerlines - £18 a pair.

[Slushbox]

TP-Link AV1000 Gigabit Powerline kits, - £18 for two 'blobs' from Sainsburies at the moment. (Basingstoke.) (£45 at Amazon.)

Bought two pairs to update my creaking Trend units from yesteryear.

Will they give 1000 Mbps? Test results to follow.

Edit:

Paired all four blobs. hold in Pair button on one, press Pair button on the others, in sequence. There will be many blinkenlampen.

Oh! Full whack of 45-60 Mb/s incoming from the 4G MBB router over Powerlines, about ten times the speed of the old Trend units.

However: 'Gigabit' refers only to the 10/100/1000 port. Max throughput from the Gigabit NAS over the Powerlines is about 100-130 Mb/s.

So: good for squirting Ethernet broadband over the house wiring. About 100-130 Mb/s for PC-NAS file transfers.

Naturally I've got the Powerlines plugged into extension strips for the best performance. :-)

Edited by Slushbox on Monday 8th July 14:59

[beko1987]

I had a pair of old D-Link units for years going from the router to my pc in the loft. They were branded talk-talk, but were re-badged 5 star dlink jobs.

TBH I never really looked into how fast they were as they were paired with the stty sky hub, then the sky 1 hub, which could cripple anything (I could make it reboot easily with data transfer!)

I gave them away the other week to a mate, although said mate said he would give them back to me as he doesn't actually need them anymore (see my lastp ost in the 4g thread). They were lways totally reliable, never had to reboot them in 3 years!

The upstairs one was always plugged into a 4 way too, never noticed anything amiss from it.

I think if you're used to gigabit LAN, you'll hate them. Everything else, perfectly acceptable!

[Slushbox]

beko1987 said:

I think if you're used to gigabit LAN, you'll hate them. Everything else, perfectly acceptable!

Troo dat. They're good for squirting 50 MB/s broadband around the house, I have two VOIP phones which use them.

PC-NAS, er, um, cable is better. But the PC's can back-up overnight to the NAS.

Everything else is Wi-Fry.

Edited by Slushbox on Monday 22 July 18:26

[geeks]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01BECPIMC/ref...

I have some of these for shunting broadband to the office, connect at 10/100 and are just fine, the NAS is on them and will happily squirt HD files to the Firestick/tv/xbox which all sit on the wifi, was very skeptical and a bit dubious when they first turned up but, I have to say, I am impressed. Previously had gig-lan over the house and when doing large transfers across them there is a noticeable but not massive difference. Bought them as an experiment and will most likely upgrade to some better units in the future that mean I don't lose a socket and do gigabit ethernet.

[Slushbox]

^^^^^

I think Powerlines have their place. The old Trend units I have are about six years old, with no failures. 5Mb/s was kind of rubbish. The 13 Mb/s ADSL was faster.

Now with the whizzy 4G MBB at 45-60 Mb/s, I get that at the pooter two rooms away from the router, so all is well. Good price from Sainsburies,

Slowly de-Wif-ing the house, due to tin-foil hat syndrome. One Wi-Fi thing is fine, but when there's six of them plus two mobiles in a room, I can feel my kidneys shrinking. :-)

[Slushbox]

Here's the test results:

489 Mb/s, despite being plugged into power strips at both ends. This is the average speed for all four of them, but two have gone into power save mode.