Hi Tim,
Immediating repeating and mesh networking is supposed to be supported within the HomePlug spec, but I wanted to ask you when testing Powerline adapters, could you also test with 4 devices rather than just 2, to see if there's any tangible and improved benefit when reaching far away rooms?
The reason being is that I have 6 such devices, with 2 that are on ropey wiring. Despite this, these 2 locations (a garden shed and the attic) are still the best forms of connection I can get short of going exotic (dedicated radar dome) or expensive (actually lay a CAT7 cable), but I can only test on an absolute basis by running simple pings and benchmarks.
With your tools, I was wondering if in addition to the locations A through E that you test with, whether the existence of other HomePlug devices (same manufacturer/spec) improves performance in location E, and if HPAV devices are indeed smart enough to form a properly transparent mesh network or whether this part of the spec is just a fallacy.
In addition, if my assumption is correct that they do opt to use repeater mode automatically when it's a better connection, and with MU-MIMO, it should be the case whereby the HPAV devices optimise the whole network and decide which PHY 'route' is the most optimal.
The question I have is to do such optimisation, isn't some sort of methodology similar to OSPF or minimally spanning trees required to do this? But I can't see anything in the spec about this?
Anyway, I was wondering whether some digging and testing would be worthwhile to see if HPAV are actually a bit smarter than simple Point to Point devices?
Immediating repeating and mesh networking is supposed to be supported within the HomePlug spec, but I wanted to ask you when testing Powerline adapters, could you also test with 4 devices rather than just 2, to see if there's any tangible and improved benefit when reaching far away rooms?
The reason being is that I have 6 such devices, with 2 that are on ropey wiring. Despite this, these 2 locations (a garden shed and the attic) are still the best forms of connection I can get short of going exotic (dedicated radar dome) or expensive (actually lay a CAT7 cable), but I can only test on an absolute basis by running simple pings and benchmarks.
With your tools, I was wondering if in addition to the locations A through E that you test with, whether the existence of other HomePlug devices (same manufacturer/spec) improves performance in location E, and if HPAV devices are indeed smart enough to form a properly transparent mesh network or whether this part of the spec is just a fallacy.
In addition, if my assumption is correct that they do opt to use repeater mode automatically when it's a better connection, and with MU-MIMO, it should be the case whereby the HPAV devices optimise the whole network and decide which PHY 'route' is the most optimal.
The question I have is to do such optimisation, isn't some sort of methodology similar to OSPF or minimally spanning trees required to do this? But I can't see anything in the spec about this?
Anyway, I was wondering whether some digging and testing would be worthwhile to see if HPAV are actually a bit smarter than simple Point to Point devices?