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Network vs. cable. Powerline adapters

After I had already noticed the more I want to network performance can remain strong at home, I have been last week (the suffering was finally high enough) for troubleshooting. The tool IPerf has uncovered the problems.

For the connection between the hall from the ground floor and the DSL connection in the basement I use powerline adapter from Zyxel (PL-100) and to my horror I realized that the promised 85Mbps which will supposedly go on the grid, only 2 words, two Mbit remain. Why is unfortunately not possible to say exactly because the Poser line adapter, of course, are unmanaged components.

The whole thing is an absolute disaster ... and I've always been wondering why streaming video works, etc. totally or not at all ponderous. The troubleshooting will be as disastrous's not what I expected.

Now normal network cable to be laid ... I should have done from the beginning.

After I had already noticed that my network performance longer wish to be strong at home last week I left (the suffering was finally high enough) passed for troubleshooting ....