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You're meant to put homeplugs straight into a wall socket, are you not?

I'm gonna stick mine next to the A1 canvas print i won, next to the press photo, recieviing the canvas print I won, on the 20th April when the FIA GT are at silvertone, I'm a cunt, aren't I?

eh?
I've really lost track of this thread. What cables and what is MailA on aboot?

Yeah, but they're too fucking big to get anything else in a double socket. Plus it's my media center, so I need the trailer bars for my TV, amp, Wii, PC, and Sky box.....

See, my Homeplugs are plugged into strips, one of which is a surge protector, and it's completely fine.

No wait, I noticed the other night that it's struggling to give me 4 of its superleet 200 mbps. Annoyingly, the sockets in the corner of the bedroom are 2 feet up the wall and directly face the bed. Having twinkling green LEDs blaring at us all night wouldn't go down well with my girlfriend.

Much testing is in order - they're separated by the breakerbox as well, so might even be on different rings.

Black insulation tape IS YOR FREIND.

And it doesn't matter if they're on different rings, does it?

Sorry, I might have been drinking last night. I've a headache. However I did finish another race series on Forza.

Doh! I never think of the simple ideas.


It can, apparently.

Fucksticks - move the Homeplugs to wall sockets, speed ups to 6mbps. Move the bedroom one into the living room, on the next socket pair along - 25.6mbps, which is still pretty crappy, given the "100mbps LAN being passed over 200mbps HomePlug"-ness, even allowing for Windows networking being a stinking pile of shit; I'd still expect to be able to read at more than 3.2MB/sec from my NAS. So - dodgy HomePlugs? Really fucking shitty electrics (over the short distance - clearly "fucking shitty" for the massive crapness at the other end of the flat)? Both?

Edit: Hm, looks like 7-zip is pretty inefficient at writing data; testing the archive instead of properly extracting got me 3.9MB/sec. Just copying a 715MB file took 2m25s, so around 39.5mbps. Still pretty shitty, across 2 metres.

Edit: A steady 25mbps from the massively inconvenient socket by the bedroom door. Which dropped to a wavy 6mbps when I plugged my Samsung phone charger back in next to it. Unplugging that again and back to the socket by the telly/360 - a reasonably steady ~18mbps. No difference with the strip they're on turned off at the wall. Wow, that's some shitty unloaded transformer (yes yes, leaving an unloaded transformer in a turned-on socket, I know). Still not really happywith that but it's an improvement.

DIRTY ELECTRISITY IN YOUR WIREZ, STEALIN UR BANDWIDZ@@!

Yeah, it's all true, I'm ordering a Monster thing immediately.

I've read this entire thread but understood about 14% of it.

So.. My internet will go faster if I plug something into a different socket?

You lot are sooo crazy!

I've learned that sticking things in the mains is a quick way to exploding mains.

Yes, if you are using the mains system as your network cable.
No if not.