Re: [Hampshire] Ethernet Over Mains

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Author: Alan Pope
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ethernet Over Mains
On 26/03/13 15:29, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
> I've been running Devolo 200AV units for a while and recently
> asked abut their 500AV+ units. I bought a pair of 500AVs and they
> are noticably faster and use less electricity apparently and even
> have a power pass-through.
>


Any chance you can do a benchmark with something like iperf?

Here's iperf between my laptop and another machine over the 200AV units.


an@deep-thought:~$ iperf -s
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Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
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[  4] local 192.168.1.107 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.2 port 53108
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]  0.0-10.4 sec  73.9 MBytes  59.6 Mbits/sec
[  5] local 192.168.1.107 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.2 port 53109
[  5]  0.0-10.4 sec  73.8 MBytes  59.4 Mbits/sec
[  4] local 192.168.1.107 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.2 port 53112
[  4]  0.0-10.5 sec  70.4 MBytes  56.1 Mbits/sec


.. compared with two machines over GbE ..

[ 5] local 192.168.1.107 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.112 port 44354
[ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 938 Mbits/sec


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