I’ve been silently moaning about the transfer speeds to my storage devices.
Only today did I think to plug the network cable directly into the mesh satellite and not into a switch and over Powerline. 10x speed boost.
I’m an idiot and I’m posting here so I don’t get too cocky next time.
Feel free to laugh.
(“Advice” flair just on the tiny chance that someone else could be helped. )
Powerline is the last resort in Networking.
Cable > WiFi > Powerline.
In some cases it works (new cables and within 1 circiut) but usually its more headache than anything else.
But dont worrys we all did shit and wonder why it didnt work.
Just be glad you were not called to a datacenter and started tracing all fibers just to realize that a single stupid uplink is 1 gbit instead of 40 gbit
You forgot the obligatory FedEx truck full of external HDDs hurtling down the highway. 😂
Kind of want someone to re-run the numbers on this with updated storage densities.
And updated line capabilities. China just unveiled a data line with 1.2 TB/s. This is nothing to sneeze at.
At my parents house I reused the coax cable for TV. I got a few Moca adapters and I get about 500Mbit/s and they are reliable. It was easier than running Ethernet cable through the walls and outside the house
Yeah, Powerline is horrendous. It’s not only slow AF and sensitive to the underlying power layout in your house, it also causes massive amounts of electrical noise which can mess with receivers, etc.
Big latency when i used it. It also only reaches a fraction of advertised speed even when you use two sockets in the same room on the same ring main.
Where’s MoCA fit into this? Haha.
I’m going to disagree with you there, it’s completely situationally dependent. I tried running a wifi point-to-point link from my house to my detached garage, ran like hot garbage. Replaced the link with powerline, was much more stable and faster.
Right tool for the right job. Well really the right tool is to bury something (preferably fiber) between the buildings, but I’m not made out of money and the power line was already buried!