Is that power line actin' weird?
Is that power line actin' weird?
hi guys, i'm totally confused right now...i have community fiber gigabit but I am trying to use a powerline that only handles 1gb. there are cat 6 cables on either side of the router. one cable is plugged into an extension plug because my main outlet is too low for ethernet. even though I moved to an older powerline that fits right in the wall outlets, i'm still getting just as slow speeds (about 60-120 mbps). I am only a couple meters away from the router itself. anyone please help me out here? pulling my hair out lol!
I don't know exactly what environment you're talking about. Is this connection right? (How I see it in my line drawing.) < ----- > Cat 6 Ethernet cable < ----> Community Fibre Gigabit < --- > Cat 6 Ethernet cable < ------> ? Feel free to fix and change my drawings. Draw the wall outlets, router, and all other stuff or connections along the problem path. The network speed will only be as fast as the slowest part in the system. Probably a bad cable but more information is needed. Are all cables UTP, pure copper (not aluminum with extra coating), round, AWG 22-24? They should say where on the cable, but there are many fake/counterfeit cables being sold. Where did you buy your cables?
You probably think the marketing tricks you see as real. They never actually promise gigabit speeds anywhere else. Instead, they play stupid games by saying something like AV2-1000 or AV2-600. The truth is, those are fake numbers. The real standards are just AV2-600 and AV2-1200. They renamed 600 to 1000 and 1200 when a new way of sending power signals came out that uses the same numbers but works better. You can spot them lying by how they talk about old units like the AV500; those only have standard ethernet ports that are slow. They know you won't get close to 100mbps with anything else, so they just use the wrong numbers. These numbers sound normal for powerline gear. If you plug both into one strip or use a long extension cord, you might actually get higher speeds because those wires handle interference better than direct wall plugs are. But if you can just plug them straight in, that extra step isn't worth it and they aren't doing the best job there either.