I recently got Fibre, I should get 30mb at my home due to location etc.

When I speed test with the iphone I get mostly over 25mb on the wireless (I understand the line need to settle etc), when I speed test with my hard wired pc through 85mb powerline adapters I get around the 20mb mark.

My question is, would I get any benefit from getting 200mb or 500mb powerline adapters.

Please be gentle and all answers need to be in laymans terms if possible.

Thanks for your help and for looking.

Possibly, but don't forget that powerline adapters are not great anyway.

There are many better ways to do it, but if you're hitting the limit then faster ones may help.

What I would say is that if you don't use only one computer in the house at once, then one pulling 20Mbit and the other 25Mbit will be more than enough to saturate your DSL, so I'd not bother with the spend.

Plug your PC directly into the router and see what you get.

I get 100mb+ over wireless.

Thanks for the answers, I have thought about getting an external Cat6 cable and go outside, up into the roof and down the other side into the upstairs spare room, What better options are there than Powerline then please.

great minds and all that I was going to take the PC downstairs latter when the kids have gone to bed to check the speeds.

When my home office was upstairs I went out through the wall and up into the bedroom/office with some Cat 5. 2 holes in the wall and a few cable pins.

Now I am downstairs I use an old router with dd-wrt custom firmware in client mode.

Think Powerline adapters will only be as good as your wiring, may benefit upgrading them, hard to say.

Might be worth upgrading your wireless tech, never as good as wired though.

just checked with pc upstairs 19mb took same pc downstairs and 35mb !!

One more question is it worth buying Cat6 external or stay with cat5e? also I take it the external will be uv resistant?

Dont know about UV, I just bought some external grade cable. May as well go Cat 6.

Powerline plugs are normally very very good. I use them and get full speed. If you are not getting full speed it will be due to your wiring in your home most likely or you may be running something in your home that is causing interference within your wiring. Remember too, not to run them through surge protectors as they slow down and may even disconnect if you do. Only use them directly in the wall socket and you should get full speed if your wiring is in half decent condition. Your wiring doesn't need to be perfect though to get a good result. 85mbps powerline plugs should give you full 30mb download speed so you may have a wiring issue or you are using the plugs in a surge protector. Also, what site are you using for testing your speed. Speedtest.net is one of the best. Test a few times at different times of the day using a different server on occassions. Good luck.

Hi thanks for all your help, the outcome is.

I went for cat5e as I got full speed when I tried PC plugged straight into router, did not go for cat6 as I read more than once on web that cat5e is more forgiving for a novice to install. True or not i dont know .Only took me about 20m or so and £16 of fleabay for ext cable. My bro already had connectors and crimper.

With regard to my wiring I knew about the surge protector thing, but my wiring is "fine" according to electrician who put consumer unit in. It could be lots of reasons, but cable was the only sure answer. As power line adapters are expensive it's hard to try them before you buy.

Upshot is power line around 20mbs cat5e 35mbs on a line they estimated at 30mbs so well happy alround

Thanks for your help all of you.

just checked with pc upstairs 19mb took same pc downstairs and 35mb !!

One more question is it worth buying Cat6 external or stay with cat5e? also I take it the external will be uv resistant?

I ran some cat 5 (at customers request) externally after advising against and years later it was still OK.Additionally, lots of years ago BT started using a brown cable outside as it was UV stable and the others were said not to be .

Cat6 is quite difficult to terminate properly, Cat5e is perfectly adequate and much easier and cheaper to terminate.

Great that you've got your full speed, plus a bit more! I suspect you may have a slightly dodgy powerline plug that can't deliver full speed. Never mind, you've solved it very cheaply.

Thanks Estate Man