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.
I don't agree because my uncle used a super fast internet plan with 600 megabits per second. I got much less speed, around 300 or 400 Mbps, on his network before we moved to my sister's house. It wasn't all just marketing tricks =P
so it basically goes from the extension cord to a Cat 6 cable, then the power line adapter, and through the walls. Then the power line adapter goes to the Cat 6 cable, which connects to the router.
I picked an AX wifi adapter for my computer because I know it will work just like my phone. My phone is getting about 400 to 600 download and upload speeds, so I think that's good enough right now. But I'm worried the old circuits in our building might be slowing things down too much since I can't change anything inside the house. So I ordered a high speed wifi adapter just in case.
My Wi-Fi download on my phone is 591 Mbps, but my upload speed is actually 307 Mbps. That's a pretty good mix.
also to answer your questions....the cables arent bad, they are about within 22-24 awg size...i think both are 22 AWG? as ive checked the outside of the cable....and ive got them from amazon....to be honest though even if they were "crap" as per say you would still think they would perform better regardless as it is a 1gigabit connect (yes i know i wont get the whole shabang) but at least a little more...200/250 maybe?
Look at the chain of stuff needed to get data from one place to another: first, a big extension lead. Then, CAT6 cable to go through walls. Next, the powerline adapter that plugs into your wall socket. Then more CAT6 cable going straight to your router. All these pieces are what you need. Don't trust cables bought online without looking closely at them because they can look good on paper but use weak or cheap materials inside. Even if it looks okay in the box, things inside aren't always tested well. Sometimes the circuits inside a building are just old and not as fast as people think. It's hard to fix that even if you try to move furniture around. Your connection speed will never be faster than your slowest link, no matter where it is set up. You should be careful when buying things like "high speed wifi adapters" because the tests they do for selling them happen in a perfect world, not real life. Usually, devices send data better than they receive it. Also, there are government rules that stop manufacturers from making their transmitters go too strong if the receivers can't handle it. So you have to be careful about what claims are made on product labels or websites.
You keep believing marketing hype without checking if those numbers mean anything real. It's exactly like when companies put "new and improved" on boxes, but most folks have figured out that is mostly a lie. Getting 300 to 400 mbps over powerline cables can actually happen in good spots, like using them in the same room or even different rooms close together while on the same electrical circuit. This is still nowhere near getting gigabit speeds. Marketing people would probably call an ethernet cable "2gbit" if it weren't already called "1gbit." Ethernet can send 1gbit and receive 1gbit at the exact same time, unlike other techs which might not do that well. If you are already pulling 400 to 600 mbps from an 802.11ac router, it is unlikely you will see much better results, and I suspect those high numbers come from testing very close to the router where normal users get about 300 mbps. You need to learn more details here because there are many different versions of wifi6... like 802.11ax. The common one and cheaper models only support 80 megahertz radio channels, which is exactly the same speed as 802.11ac. It is actually the ability to run 160 megahertz channels that makes wifi6 faster. They do this because there are all kinds of rules about avoiding stuff like weather radar when you try to use those high frequency bands. Many devices just decided to avoid these issues and only support 80 megahertz instead. In addition, the second feature that speeds up 802.11ax is using qam1024 encoding. Since this uses very dense radio signals, it is much more sensitive to interference from other sources... like your neighbor's wifi. Because of this, you generally can only get qam1024 to work in the same room as the router. In the end, most people think wifi6 is mostly just a waste of money. Most folks see almost no difference between 802.11ac and 802.11ax performance. If you are buying things, your best option is probably to get wifi6e instead. That runs on the 6ghz radio band where there is more allowed bandwidth so there will be less interference and no radar issues. Don't expect gigabit speeds though; most people in average houses report about 600 to 700 mbps. You also have to watch out for chasing big numbers. Most families barely need 100 mbps all month. The only things that really need speed are file downloads, and it depends on how much you do them. When you compare the cost of a 1gbit internet plan versus 300 mbps per month, how many extra dollars are you spending each month just to download for maybe two minutes at a time? Your case is similar: are your powerline connections actually good enough? It also depends on what you are doing. Maybe wifi is much worse even if it technically runs faster. Many people playing online games on this forum find that online games need almost no bandwidth except when first downloading them, using maybe 1 mbps up and down. Having more does not make them run better. Wifi is very subject to random interference which causes data to get random latency. This can cause sudden lag spikes in games. For games, you are better off using a slower powerline connection than a faster wifi one.