Powerline adapter MAX SPEED TEST TP Link AV2000

[@henryptung]

Nice practical test! Now, about that TNG door chime...

[@nikkininetoes]

Glad I watched your video. You just saved me from spending a good chunk of change. Too much distance in my place to take the chance.

[@midwestmenace9636]

Ik its been a year so if you havent already give it a test and if its garb then return it!

[@lee__1707]

Fantastic video showed me exactly what i was looking to see regarding room to room transfer speeds :) Many thanks

[@41djbrooks]

They are great within a house/flat but they only have limited range to achieve the right bandwidth

[@paulmilligan3007]

Thank you. Saved me the hassle of buy/try/return. The 2000 number in the product name is utterly meaningless!

[@blathum9]

Great test nice that you are using a NAS. Your test is a lot better than many of the others that just use the internet as a test base.

[@Patricio12319]

THIS is the video i wanted!! well done mate

[@simmosideways]

just be aware they do introduce around 1ms latency increasing depending on how far you are away, always best to run a cable if possible. Of course for youtube or general web browsing it would be fine

[@ash-lo2dc]

I got a power line adapter from tp thank the lords of internet I get a constant 100mbs from my router now I can game with no lag :D

[@fake2044]

what specific model do you use?

[@S2GUnit]

To get good performance from my TP-Link powerline adapter, I had to try to many different electrical sockets. I used TP Link's tpPLC program in Windows to check the powerline bandwidth of each adapter in different sockets to find the socket with the highest bandwidth. However, this was only to get the best bandwidth for additional wifi router. In the end my desktop upstairs has a better connection through wifi on a router connected to a powerline adapter than it did have a powerline adapter right beside the PC & connected via ethernet.

[@ricco123tube]

Thats the way to do it for speed. Did u manage to test ping wired vs wireless?

[@brunofunnie]

It would be great if you had tested the ping/latency, transferring files doesn't actually have THAT impact but when streaming or gaming is very important to have a decent ping ( less than 70ms ~ 100ms )

[@IbraheemALBalushi]

Good job , your KZbin answers my questions

[@dzxtcqq]

Saved me. Thanks so much

[@dindu42]

Is there a relationship between speed and range - as there is for wifi bands 2.4 ghz and 5ghz ? To clarify - would a powerline device rated at 1gb provide a better range over power cables than a 2gb powerline adapter ?

[@ricco123tube]

In my experience the faster the powerline adapter the longer the range. However, it isn't as scalable as the numbers might suggest and if long range and high speed is the aim, go fully wired. If you just need a decent internet connection in another location, then they are ok. I move some large files so I am now fully wired.

[@dindu42]

@@ricco123tube Thank you

[@ptsanche]

Thanks but I'll go for the rewire as speeds are going to keep increasing

[@ricco123tube]

Agreed

[@theyoungazn]

I have always got similar speeds using the av500 vs my modem wired connection.

[@ricco123tube]

Depends on distance, quality of wiring and obviously the speed of your internet. If you have 500mbps internet then there is no way you'll get that at the other end, but if you have 75mbps for example, then thats very achievable.

[@PeteWylieRC]

That is a really big difference isn't it? I might run a cable to the man cave one day if I can be bothered!

[@ricco123tube]

If moving big files its worth going wired. For internet the adapters are great.

[@mz8609]

Good video - I thought mine are crappy, but it's good to see that the way it is.... I have 1Gbit version and withing an apartment they max out at around 20MB/s. Whats more, they show link speed of ~400Mbps. For me this is total advertising bs, a they are not 1Gbit but rather 500Mbps each way, and they can't even deliver that. Doing a large backup (800GB) takes ages.... Nowadays you can get 600Mbps or higher internet connection in my area, so that would be a waste to use this. I think I would be better of with some fast Wifi :)

[@ricco123tube]

They are decent for the average person connecting a console, tv etc. I decided to fully wired which requires planning, but it certainly paid off. Cheers

[@mz8609]

@@ricco123tube true, true but you shouldn't be fooled by box label saying "Gigabit Ethernet" or 1000Mbps 180Mbps is all I get is "almost perfect conditions" :)

[@ricco123tube]

Life is full of half truths. My wife said she was a 34 D, turns out she is a DD. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

[@adoptedchineseboy]

Great info!

[@roughryder5]

I'm getting 2mbps on my 309av Dlink adapter. Im frustrated.

[@ricco123tube]

I'd be too. Lack of special cuddles has the same effect.

[@dacelooper]

Definitely on a different breaker....

[@ricco123tube]

Yeah

[@brendanr5232]

Hi mate, I bought a tp link av 200 5 years ago and they worked great. I now have a got upgraded to fibre broadband. Do you think the newer power line adapter would be faster. I have 130 mb speed? Thanks

[@ricco123tube]

In theory yes. Also, the farther away from one another the better performance the higher speed adapters are. Order from a retailer that allows returns, but I'm sure you will be happy.

[@staffan144]

Av2 standard is much better than the old standard

[@redshift3639]

I'm looking to hook up these between two mesh nodes on AV1200. What I always wondered was would the mesh nodes perform better over powerline, or using the wireless mode? Reading stuff online about internode connection over powerline being worse in cases due to the av2000 or lower models reaching nowhere near their advertised transfer rates.

[@staffan144]

Good Powerline av2 standard can reach 3-400 mbps in real life anyway

[@girimeister7267]

Hi , I have the TP Link power line adaptors , just curious to know if I can change the name of the devices along with the new password . I’ve downloaded the app but not sure how to perform the above changes . Thanks

[@sh43n]

So I can achieve close to a gig, I have fiber and I get drops in WiFi when gaming at times

[@Sam-us8qt]

Therefore get WiFi mesh. Don't use powerline network adapter

[@fujitsubo3323]

from my experience even with running them in brand new homes over short cable runs on brand new thick lines you will never ever see them at the rated speeds of the unit. its always better to just get a av300 av500 becuase thats about the sweet spot you get in a near perfect condition cable and outlet. they will never be a subsitute for a cat6 cat 5 cat whatever cable.

[@staffan144]

Were not your results better the previous time, some years ago?

[@ricco123tube]

It's all down to the environment in which they are used. The distance, appliances like freezers, TVs, etc all make a difference.

[@staffan144]

@@ricco123tube of course, but didn't u use the same location back then?

[@staffan144]

@@ricco123tube btw I have also plenty of experience with these powerline kind of things. I will share some info here, what I have learned to improve the results. Me and my brother both happens to live in the same house, but in different apartments, both on the 5th floor. We share internet via powerline and it works well (and my brother will pay half the bill). In the beginning (when I had 100 or 150 mbps, he only got 30 mbps out from his wifi router (connections were like this. Directly from my internet source (a switch?) connected to powerline, then in my brother's apartment at the entrance (mirrored from my apartment, in the entrance hall, I. E shortest possible distance, though still down and up 5 floors somehow?), the other powerline which was then connected to his wifi router in his kitchen via ethernet cables pre-installed in the apartment). So, with an AV300 or AV500 (don't even remember now) and an old N-router, he got 30 mbps (and response time 15 ms). (while I had 100 mbps which was later, at first increased to 150 mbps). Then, still later, after that, I changed internet provider to 250 mbps at the source, and we upgraded his router to a really good ac router (because his old could not make more than 30 mbps in any case), and a 'new' AV600 powerline, and his router received - and was also able to broadcast at - 70 mbps (response time 8 ms). And an hour ago, just now, we upgraded the powerline to AV2, tp link AV1000 (which I was able to buy for 10 USD as new but 2nd hand), and now his router both receives and transmits at 140+ mbps and is stable and response time over at his wifi of 5 ms (though the response time at his powerline is 3 ms). If we want to improve it further, though we don't really need more, we are very happy with what we got now, but anyway, then we would go for tp link av1200 with ground connection and mimo, which I can buy second hand for 20 USD, or the even better AV2000 though ten times more expensive and not available 2nd hand). ____ More information. My ethernet connection is, at the moment 250 mbps, and my own 5 GHz ac router has 240 mbps in most of my apartment. Our new AV2 powerline, when setting it up, was able to deliver 173 mbps while in the same room fairly close to each other (and 3 ms response time). When moving the receiving powerline into my brother's apartment, we got 140 mbps (up- and download) and his good router puts ut 100 % of that (I. E. also 140 mbps).

[@ricco123tube]

Same location but not the same electrics and with many devices plugged in and in use. The important thing to take from this is most people plug and play and thats exactly what I did.

[@technomad900]

I loathe the marketing surrounding Powerlines. The actual real speed has not much changed from the 200mb models from years ago

[@oliverk6711]

What about latency?

[@ricco123tube]

About 3ms. Always go wired if latency is of importance. Still better than traditional WiFi.

[@lyl3645]

I'm a bit disappointed by the TP link ethernet power adaptor since it only gets 1/6 of the max internet speed I subscribed to and is slower than my wifi connection.

[@skylarforrest1849]

I have the tplink 2000mbps powerline adapters because I'm trying to get 5ghz on my original ps4 and I have 400+ mbps download speed but it says on my ps4 I'm only at 80mbps does anyone know how to increase the speed

[@ricco123tube]

Ps4 is dead slow, maybe the console itself or Sony servers. My ps4 pro never gets close to my internet speed.

[@skylarforrest1849]

@@ricco123tube yeah I'm not sure I bought them because I thought it would be a cheaper and good option to buying a ps4 slim or pro which are like $400 rn but the speeds with it are the equivalent to my 2.4ghz wireless speeds I get

[@ricco123tube]

Roll on PS5. Day one purchase here!

[@Funibert-Fox]

But there is everything wrong in the cabling. That's why your speed is so shitty. You should read about HF on powerline and with that knowledge, you can do a lot more speed out of these adapters.

[@ricco123tube]

Of course you can get a lot more speed with different scenarios. The point is most people who are not tech savvy will buy these, plug them in, and get on with things.

[@mz8609]

If you could fix your cabling you would not be using PoweLine adapter but rather put proper LAN cables and enjoy hi speed network. I have "near perfect" conditions, adapters plugged in directly to power sockets, they report speed close to max (~400Mbps in tpPLC utility) and still transfer rate is just around 15-25MB/s.

[@ricco123tube]

I needed more than just internet speed so I am now wired end to end. Most user will more than likely just want to get internet to their tv or playstation which these do just fine.

[@damasusbagus9123]

please learn about iperf for measure network speed

[@ricco123tube]

I know about it. The video is kept very basic so anyone wanting to know what to expect can see if it's good enough for their needs. Whenever i do in-depth techy vids, no one watches them. Thanks for the comment.