In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

What make and model of Powerline plugs?

For FTTC speeds you need the 500 Mbps units generally.

TP-LINK, 500Mbps. They were bought new like two months ago because my old ones started to die out.

You have said that DIRECT connection gives the good >30Mbps speeds. That proves that the VDSL link is working fine, as is the router. Once it leaves the Router it is out of BTs remit.

Could be that the router ethernet port and the TPLink ethernet port are for some reason only connecting at 10Mbps. Or even the other end - the TPLink to the PC could for some reason be only 10Mbps.

Not sure what management software is available with the TPLink but ideally it should hopefully show the status of the connections and what speeds they are running at - that could pinpoint the issue.

In reply to a post by ian72:

Could be that the router ethernet port and the TPLink ethernet port are for some reason only connecting at 10Mbps. Or even the other end - the TPLink to the PC could for some reason be only 10Mbps.

Not sure what management software is available with the TPLink but ideally it should hopefully show the status of the connections and what speeds they are running at - that could pinpoint the issue.

http://puu.sh/8NblM.jpg shows 100Mbps.

What about the other end - the TP Link to the router? And is there a TP Link utility that shows the speeds being achieved over the household electrical wiring? I know a utility exists for netgear that does this but have no personal experience of the TP Links.

In reply to a post by ian72:

What about the other end - the TP Link to the router? And is there a TP Link utility that shows the speeds being achieved over the household electrical wiring? I know a utility exists for netgear that does this but have no personal experience of the TP Links.

I think there's a utility for getting the powerline speeds of both which I'll take a look at later (not home right now); not too sure of the speeds achieved of over the electric.

In reply to a post by CainKilgore:

In reply to a post by ian72:

What about the other end - the TP Link to the router? And is there a TP Link utility that shows the speeds being achieved over the household electrical wiring? I know a utility exists for netgear that does this but have no personal experience of the TP Links.

I think there's a utility for getting the powerline speeds of both which I'll take a look at later (not home right now); not too sure of the speeds achieved of over the electric.

Alright I'm home, downloaded the TP-LINK Utility and it's reporting 153Mbps on the powerlines. Which, as long as it's above 100, I don't really care about.

Speed Tests currently showing around 4-5Mbps right now. Something isn't right.

Do you have a Homehub 5?

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Do you have a Homehub 5?

I do not, we got our contract nearly two years ago and back then they were giving us a Home Hub 3 which I recently discontinued as it was starting to go faulty (random dropouts).

I use a WNDR 4500 running DDWRT

Edited by deleted (Thu 15-May-14 23:10:01)

Pity, the limited line stats on the HH5 may give a clue. Alternatively, an unlocked HG612 modem will give the line stats.