So we finally got fibre in our suburb, and we install it ASAP. So now the LAN/wifi speed becomes the bottleneck rather than the pipe to internet. So I use speedtest.net to do a lot of testing. I use TP-Link AV1200 for LAN networking from the wifi router/modem to my PC. The TP-Link utility tells me the link isn't a gigabit network, but ~300mbps, even though in theory AV1200 can do gigabit.The problem I have is that the powerline network speed according to speedtest is consistently lower than my 5ghz wireless AC speed. The ping time of the powerline network is better (by 10 ms), but it never consistently goes up to 100 mbps, which is our theoretical fibre speed cap at the moment. But the 5ghz wifi consistent goes up to (and sometimes above) the fibre speed cap.So my question is, is it normal? Short of getting another powerline adapter, I have no idea whether it is the adapter that is faulty, or if the electrical network in our house can only handle ~300mbps and that is limiting the speed (if I had known our house can only do ~300mbps powerline network, I would have bought the cheaper AV600 plug, which would be more than enough). In real world usage, ping is more important, so I'm sticking with the powerline network at the moment but in general, 5ghz wireless AC seems to be good enough.
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