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by BrandoElFollito 2791 days ago
I had the same experience but I did not expect much more from my power installation (a mixture of old and new cabling).

This is still 200 Mbps, better than the Wi-Fi the device could get.
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rasz 2791 days ago
cabling is not the limiting factor, you can link them using plain cable (outside power installation) https://forum.openrov.com/t/teardown-of-a-homeplug-adapter/3...

200Mbps is their real PHY speed, 900Mbps is just a Scam

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BrandoElFollito 2791 days ago
Ah.

Thanks for the link, it is an impressive article and while I work in IT, the electronic may be a bit off my league (I just solder a bit around IoT devices and flash them).

I realized with your comment that I have never actually tested the plugs when they are next to each other (say, on an extender). I did not expect there would be a physical limitation below the advertized 1Gbps (I now all I got 400 Mbps I think but I am not at home to get that with a local iperf loop). If they cannot deliver close to that I would be pissed off :)

I have, again from memory, a 2x1Gbps tplink pair.

This said, my power cabling is sub par so this was the obvious reason for me for the lower bandwidth.

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