Gigabit Powerline HD : F5D4076UK

[HEADRAT]

Hi,

I thought I'd try some Belkin Gigabit Powerline HD:-

Belkin : Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit

What can I say but they are rubbish, no faster than my Devolo dLAN® 200 AVeasy powerline adapter, I struggle to get 50 Mbps (6.25 MBps) from one room to another even when the adapter claims I have a good connection above 200Mbps!

There is no software, no configuration, no way to see what is going on and quite frankly terrible.

Maybe other people will get better results, even with two plugs in the same room just for testing purposes the best I get is 200 Mbps (25MBps).

Devolo dLAN® 200 AVeasy

iperf -c 192.168.2.105 -l 64k -t 15 -i 5 -r

------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 8.00 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.2.105, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 8.00 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[208] local 192.168.2.103 port 52088 connected with 192.168.2.105 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[208] 0.0- 5.0 sec 35.3 MBytes 59.2 Mbits/sec
[208] 5.0-10.0 sec 35.6 MBytes 59.8 Mbits/sec
[208] 10.0-15.0 sec 35.8 MBytes 60.1 Mbits/sec
[208] 0.0-15.0 sec 107 MBytes 59.7 Mbits/sec
[128] local 192.168.2.103 port 5001 connected with 192.168.2.105 port 53502
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[128] 0.0- 5.0 sec 33.6 MBytes 56.3 Mbits/sec
[128] 0.0- 5.0 sec 282 Mbits 56.4 Mbits/sec


Gigabit Powerline HD

iperf -c 192.168.2.105 -l 64k -t 15 -i 5 -r

------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 8.00 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.2.105, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 8.00 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[208] local 192.168.2.103 port 52088 connected with 192.168.2.105 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[208] 0.0- 5.0 sec 35.3 MBytes 59.2 Mbits/sec
[208] 5.0-10.0 sec 35.6 MBytes 59.8 Mbits/sec
[208] 10.0-15.0 sec 35.8 MBytes 60.1 Mbits/sec
[208] 0.0-15.0 sec 107 MBytes 59.7 Mbits/sec
[128] local 192.168.2.103 port 5001 connected with 192.168.2.105 port 53502
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[128] 0.0- 5.0 sec 33.6 MBytes 56.3 Mbits/sec
[128] 0.0- 5.0 sec 282 Mbits 56.4 Mbits/sec

HEADRAT

[MadduckUK]

a quick divide by 8 leave me with..

crap then?

[HEADRAT]

They just aren't any faster than my current Devolo's, how they can claim these are Gigabit is beyond me

[MadduckUK]

They just aren't any faster than my current Devolo's, how they can claim these are Gigabit is beyond me

1/3 slower than my current 100mbit connection, so calling them that would be pushing it

[Phage]

Would you recommend the devolos ?

[rjpearce]

Thank you HEADRAT, I was tempted to buy thoose Powerline HD's to try out the speed. Will be sticking with me Devolo's now.

I had a problem when the Devolo dLAN® 200's originally came out but a quick firmware upgrade fixed that. Since that they have been rock stable and pretty quick. They are still quite pricey but it's well worth it if you cannot run cables.

-Richard