2017-09-16, 10:41
I finally said goodbye to my powerline adaptors today. They were becoming a pain. My neighbours have started using them and we share a common power supply. So my network traffic was bouncing off theirs. In the end I decided to go for flat cat 6 ethernet surface mounted along the skirting boards from my router upstairs to the Cisco Catalyst switch then out to each room. On the powerlines I was getting, on an RPI model B, 44 Mbps (tested with iperf) from the media server, if I was lucky. I now get 75 Mbps. I have just tested it with my desktop PC streaming a 1080p video and my RPI 2 also streaming a 1080p video and the RPI B in my bedroom was still getting 75 Mbps when tested with iperf.
