I have at home two TL-PA7020 (AV1000) at home, one of them connected to the router, another to a computer. Using iperf3, I get a bandwidth of around 150 Mbps to send from the computer to the router and the same from the router to the computer.
I read how powerline works and what the 1000 Mbps advertised speed actually mean. Correct me if I'am wrong, but from my understanding, the theoretical maximum speed is 500 Mbps one way and the same the other way. Because of wiring quality, distance, etc. between the two adapters, you will get a lower speed.
I used the software from TP-Link "tpPLC" to get information about the two adapters. It reports to me that the "Powerline Rate" between the two adapters is around 325 Mbps (350 Mbps one way and 300 Mbps the other way). Right in the software, the definition of "Powerline Rate" is:
Powerline rate here means the transmission capacity of your electrical wiring and differs from the actual data transfer rate of your terminal
So it seams that I should get around 300 Mbps, which I don't. Is this normal?
(I made sure it was not the computer adapter the problem. I am 99 % sure it is the powerline the bottleneck. If anyone wonder how I tested this, I have more then one computer on each side of the powerline, so I can test them without going through the powerline adapter.)
EDIT:
Here is iperf3 output if it can help :
Router IP : 192.168.1.1
Computer IP : 192.168.1.100
Computer to router
root@OpenWrt:~# iperf3 -s
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Server listening on 5201
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Accepted connection from 192.168.1.100, port 52482
[ 5] local 192.168.1.1 port 5201 connected to 192.168.1.100 port 52484
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 14.5 MBytes 122 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 17.1 MBytes 143 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 16.9 MBytes 142 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 16.9 MBytes 142 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 16.8 MBytes 141 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 5.00-6.00 sec 17.2 MBytes 144 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 17.1 MBytes 143 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 17.2 MBytes 144 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 17.3 MBytes 145 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 17.3 MBytes 145 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 10.00-10.04 sec 649 KBytes 141 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 5] 0.00-10.04 sec 0.00 Bytes 0.00 bits/sec sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.04 sec 169 MBytes 141 Mbits/sec receiver
computer@-EB1012P:~$ iperf3 -c 192.168.1.1
Connecting to host 192.168.1.1, port 5201
[ 4] local 192.168.1.100 port 52484 connected to 192.168.1.1 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr Cwnd
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 15.5 MBytes 130 Mbits/sec 0 489 KBytes
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 17.1 MBytes 143 Mbits/sec 0 489 KBytes
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 17.0 MBytes 142 Mbits/sec 0 489 KBytes
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 16.8 MBytes 141 Mbits/sec 0 489 KBytes
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 16.9 MBytes 142 Mbits/sec 0 489 KBytes
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 17.4 MBytes 146 Mbits/sec 0 489 KBytes
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 16.9 MBytes 142 Mbits/sec 0 489 KBytes
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 17.2 MBytes 144 Mbits/sec 0 489 KBytes
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 17.4 MBytes 146 Mbits/sec 0 489 KBytes
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 17.3 MBytes 145 Mbits/sec 0 489 KBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 169 MBytes 142 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 169 MBytes 142 Mbits/sec receiver
iperf Done.
The iperf3 log of router to computer is similar. If it is needed, tell me in the comments and I will add it.
