TL-PA9020P(UK) Ver 1.0 Starter Kit Performance Problems
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TL-PA9020P(UK) Ver 1.0 Starter Kit Performance Problems
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Hi everyone,
I've brought these power line adapters a year ago after getting 200mb broadband and finding that my old develo AV500 adapters only included a 100mb ethernet port so I was unable to use my full internet speed in my office.
The TPLink AV2000 adapters seemed to have really helped my situation a year ago, with the full internet speed accessible. However I've just upgraded my internet to 350mb and am finding myself back in the same situation again. I don't seem to be able to get my network connection working across the power line to be able to use my new 380mb internet connection at anything like the proper speeds.
Eliminating the internet from the equation I've used iperf3 on a computer in my office at one end of the power line adapters and another computer connected to the other adapter next to the router in the front room. With this setup I find that I get about 240Mbit/s between the two computers. Which is obviously why I'm unable to get the full internet speed from my broadband over such a connection.
The thing that really confuses me though is that the tpPLC app shows the connection speeds between my two adapters as being a lot more, I'd presume the sync speed it shows between the two adapters would be at least in the ballpark of the actual network connection that was capable between the two adapters. In this case tpPLC shows around 900Mbps (or sometimes higher, I've seen it over 1000mb occasionally) in both directions between the adapters. Obviously this is a large discrepancy between the two speeds.. Is this normal? I always presumed these utilities were pretty good at showing you the actual speed over the network as with older adapters the speeds shown in their utilities seemed to be pretty inline with the actual performance you'd see along the line.
I did update my firmware in hope this could help I was running with firmware
3.2.0_902131_160405_903
and after upgrading with the firmware on the website I'm now running with
3.2.4_902111_170628_901
Sadly it's not made any difference to the performance discrepancy between tpPLC and actual real world transfers down the connection.
I've also removed my old AV500 devolo adapters from the equation temporarily as sometimes I can improve the adapters by turning them all off and then back on again 1 by 1... this didn't seem to help either though.
Here's a screenshot of tpPLC after turning one of the devolo adapters back on
With a typical iperf3 run over the power line of
Is this normal to just not be able to take the speeds reported within tpPLC as useful approximations of actual speeds capable between those adapters? If so what is the point of having the speeds on there anyways if they can be out by so much, 900mb -> 200mb
Thanks for your time.. I'm really stuck now wondering what the best options are...
Hardware Version :
Firmware Version :
ISP :
Hi everyone,
I've brought these power line adapters a year ago after getting 200mb broadband and finding that my old develo AV500 adapters only included a 100mb ethernet port so I was unable to use my full internet speed in my office.
The TPLink AV2000 adapters seemed to have really helped my situation a year ago, with the full internet speed accessible. However I've just upgraded my internet to 350mb and am finding myself back in the same situation again. I don't seem to be able to get my network connection working across the power line to be able to use my new 380mb internet connection at anything like the proper speeds.
Eliminating the internet from the equation I've used iperf3 on a computer in my office at one end of the power line adapters and another computer connected to the other adapter next to the router in the front room. With this setup I find that I get about 240Mbit/s between the two computers. Which is obviously why I'm unable to get the full internet speed from my broadband over such a connection.
The thing that really confuses me though is that the tpPLC app shows the connection speeds between my two adapters as being a lot more, I'd presume the sync speed it shows between the two adapters would be at least in the ballpark of the actual network connection that was capable between the two adapters. In this case tpPLC shows around 900Mbps (or sometimes higher, I've seen it over 1000mb occasionally) in both directions between the adapters. Obviously this is a large discrepancy between the two speeds.. Is this normal? I always presumed these utilities were pretty good at showing you the actual speed over the network as with older adapters the speeds shown in their utilities seemed to be pretty inline with the actual performance you'd see along the line.
I did update my firmware in hope this could help I was running with firmware
3.2.0_902131_160405_903
and after upgrading with the firmware on the website I'm now running with
3.2.4_902111_170628_901
Sadly it's not made any difference to the performance discrepancy between tpPLC and actual real world transfers down the connection.
I've also removed my old AV500 devolo adapters from the equation temporarily as sometimes I can improve the adapters by turning them all off and then back on again 1 by 1... this didn't seem to help either though.
Here's a screenshot of tpPLC after turning one of the devolo adapters back on
With a typical iperf3 run over the power line of
Is this normal to just not be able to take the speeds reported within tpPLC as useful approximations of actual speeds capable between those adapters? If so what is the point of having the speeds on there anyways if they can be out by so much, 900mb -> 200mb
Thanks for your time.. I'm really stuck now wondering what the best options are...