I�ve got the three pack of BT Whole Home WiFi white discs last December and I�m using Ethernet for their back-haul. They�ve been rock solid.

Setup was using Wifi, but then I relocated them to each floor of the house and connected each to an RJ45 port patched through to a gigabit port on my router. The app show every disc�s connection as �Ethernet� instead of WiFi, reporting perfect connectivity.

Mesh and roaming between discs is seamless without any hiccups. Using Ethernet backhaul gave me great throughput without having to pay a lot more for tri-band mesh access points.

That is good to know they can do this!

In reply to a post by andyhurley:

In all cases the difference in speed between same ring and different ring was less than 10% but also in all cases maximum throughput was a fraction of the advertised speed.

The Homeplug advertising, e.g. 200 or 600 Mbps, is what they call PHY and is similar to WiFi G saying 54Mbps for example. You can't get 200/600 or 54 out of any of these. In fact WiFi G topped out speeds of 22 Mbps on a real TCP/IP connection. You can't compare any of these technologies with the throughputs of Ethernet.

Don't expect a Homeplug AV200 to allow your VM 200 Mbps broadband to work in another room at 200 Mbps. You would need to buy the 600, or better the 1200 models - and have good clean electrical wiring.

NOTE: The USA home mains wiring is VERY different to the UK. They don't use "rings" as we have, so instructions on where to plug HomePlug units from the US are likely to be poor advice for UK homes.

For some real world testing (with graphs) have a look at Small Net Builder, for example:
https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/basics/lanwan-basics...

and Solwise have some sensible recommendations:
https://www.solwise.co.uk/net-powerline-real-world-p...

Edited by jchamier (Sun 17-Nov-19 13:35:45)