Slow speeds with homeplugs and network

[peterb]

If you really want to get constant good speeds and your willing to spend money and a bit of time i'd wire up your house with ethernet cables.

Then you'd also see a difference with gigabit switch

QFT - hard wired etrhernet is the way to go if you want maximum reliability and consistent speeds.

[richardl10]

I think I mentioned the original post, that my Linn DS player was working as well, that is wired to the router.
I've ordered a Gigabit router anyway, I'll see how I get on with that.

[peterb]

A Gigabit router won't improve your internet connection speed - which is far less than 100Mb/s that you get from 100baseT. But as you have found, the wired connection is better in terms of speed and consistency, so you could add a gigabit switch for your wired network and just have a single link to the router, which will run at 100Mb/s.

[richy19]

have u tryed just getting a lont ethernet cable and testing it like that? just to rule out that its nothing to do with the plugs?

[richardl10]

I've found that the files that are streamed from my PC work fine, stuff that's streamed from my router works really slowly.
I know I've a few errors on my network hard drive when the NAS does a self test, but I wouldn't have thought it would affect streaming.
My motherboard in my PC is now knackered, so I'll do more testing when I get the new one.