Hi guys, long time lurker as this forum is a wealth of helpful information. Newly signed up to ask this...
I have a Zyxel PLA5405 kit running and I'm a bit confused at how/why my speeds are the way they are.
First off, my home cable internet package from my ISP gets me 60 Mbps down, 10 Mbps up.
The line comes in, to the cable modem, out to a RT-N66u. Out of the 4 ports going out from the RT-N66U, 1 of them goes to a Zyxel PLA5405. The other end of that is upstairs to my HTPC.
Now here is where it gets interesting.
When I run a speedtest from speedtest.net upstairs at my HTPC, I'm able to get the "theoretical" speeds of 60/10 Mbps that I get from my main PC that's connected to the RT-N66U down in the basement. That's fine. Not a problem, since my cable internet package dictates that's as fast as I should be getting.
However, when I run a network file transfer test (using a 1 GB file) from the HTPC to the home PC downstairs, or home PC to HTPC, the best speed I can get is avg 7 MB/s. That value is from the Windows file transfer dialog box. Also, noticed from the Resource Monitor in Windows, as the Network speed for that specific file transfer.
The reading/writing for the file transfer is from/to an external drive via USB 3.0, so I don't think there's a bottleneck there.
Can someone help explain why I'm able to get speeds to my HTPC via Powerline to the outside world at 60 Mbps, but the LAN transfer speed is basically the same? Shouldn't LAN speeds be a lot faster?
If 7MB/s is the cap, then there's something definitely wrong with the Zyxel 5405, as that's advertised as 1200 Gbps (theoretical)....I'm basically running something worse than a 200 Mb Powerline kit.
I'm having an upgrade done tomorrow for a faster internet package (250 Mb down / 20 Mbps up). I wouldn't be surprised if I can get that speed at my HTPC via Powerline, and yet internal network lan transfers will stay at 7 MB/s
Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I have a Zyxel PLA5405 kit running and I'm a bit confused at how/why my speeds are the way they are.
First off, my home cable internet package from my ISP gets me 60 Mbps down, 10 Mbps up.
The line comes in, to the cable modem, out to a RT-N66u. Out of the 4 ports going out from the RT-N66U, 1 of them goes to a Zyxel PLA5405. The other end of that is upstairs to my HTPC.
Now here is where it gets interesting.
When I run a speedtest from speedtest.net upstairs at my HTPC, I'm able to get the "theoretical" speeds of 60/10 Mbps that I get from my main PC that's connected to the RT-N66U down in the basement. That's fine. Not a problem, since my cable internet package dictates that's as fast as I should be getting.
However, when I run a network file transfer test (using a 1 GB file) from the HTPC to the home PC downstairs, or home PC to HTPC, the best speed I can get is avg 7 MB/s. That value is from the Windows file transfer dialog box. Also, noticed from the Resource Monitor in Windows, as the Network speed for that specific file transfer.
The reading/writing for the file transfer is from/to an external drive via USB 3.0, so I don't think there's a bottleneck there.
Can someone help explain why I'm able to get speeds to my HTPC via Powerline to the outside world at 60 Mbps, but the LAN transfer speed is basically the same? Shouldn't LAN speeds be a lot faster?
If 7MB/s is the cap, then there's something definitely wrong with the Zyxel 5405, as that's advertised as 1200 Gbps (theoretical)....I'm basically running something worse than a 200 Mb Powerline kit.
I'm having an upgrade done tomorrow for a faster internet package (250 Mb down / 20 Mbps up). I wouldn't be surprised if I can get that speed at my HTPC via Powerline, and yet internal network lan transfers will stay at 7 MB/s
Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.