Very well organized video. Really appreciate it when compared to every other video of a 13 year old breathing heavy into the mic, trying to explain why his internet is crap
Excellent clear and informative video. I too was surprised with the power line adapter. It's a pity when idiots try hijacking the comments, the test has nothing to do with gaming or computer platforms. Cheers, Dave.
@@sunnycat69 it actually didn't help at first. My isp only offered 30 mbps regardless so wired really didn't affect it. Recently they offered me 250 mbps and being wired has definitely helped me utilize that extra bandwidth
I didn’t realize my wireless was so good. I’m at 129.26 download, 11.60 upload, 25 ms latency, 0 packet loss. I’m going to switch to wired today too so I’m hoping it gets even better
Those Powerline Adaptors have really improved of late. What I noticed is that if I did a router reboot after plugging them in I got even better performance. I swear I get exactly the same numbers as ethernet with my 200 Adaptor. One thing to consider though is signal strength. That could have been a 4th category.
Before anyone gets influenced by his powerline adaptor results, I think he'd have got a better result with a poweline adaptor from a decent brand like TP Link. My powerline adaptor is almost as good as a direct Ethernet cable connection into the router.
Excellent video. Great job at showing everything you were testing. For a better approach at testing, you should have tested the 3 different connections 3 times each and then divided it (÷3) to find the average speed of each connection. Cheers
you know i did not know about Powerline Adaptors and what they do for internet speed til i saw this video, and i am for sure going to be wired into my xbox one
very nice test. From what I've read, the xbox one uses 802.11N for its WiFi. This is limited to about 60Mbps. If you had a higher network speed such as 75 Mbps or 100 Mbps, you would start to see a stronger difference between Ethernet and WiFi. One last item you could test is a MoCA network line. Similar to using your Powerline box, you could get a router that connects via the CoAxle network in the house. A segment of coaxle is dedicated to networking. There are two MoCA network protocols theses days. MoCA 1.0/1.1 or MoCA 2.0. There is a network speed difference between the two. I think the MoCA 2.0 max speed is 450 Mbps? dont quote me on that.
DyNaMiC KhAoSs With the signals on wireless it depends on how many walls are in between how many devices are on the same band (2.5 or 5Ghz) and also the material of the wall and thickness and like he said the interference of other devices around the router can affect the strength so if that plays into effect that can be why you’re wireless is so poor and power line depends on the adapter itself and the age of the house / wires in the house as the older he wireless the less capable they are same as how Ethernet works I hope this helps you
we have the same router virginmedia and my wireless mbs is under 1 mbs its terrible but i just got a 500mbs powerline adapter ane now im. getting 60mbps massive difference
Found this very helpful as I literally have the same TV Xbox and router only with the 100mb download will be getting Ethernet cable today hopefully will see a big difference
Do you have any lag in games, I have a WiFi extender, the Internet speed is good but it always lags in game, I'm thinking of getting a powerline adapter but I want to know if the lag is OK or not?
@@takiz4100 it just means older houses with older wiring may have speed limits. I live in a 12 yer old house and still get good speed. Plus less lag, I like them.
good video vince ... however one factor you havent considered ... many modern devices such as the xbox one use the 5ghz wireless standard and this will deliver significantly better speeds than the 2.5ghz standard .... and thats why the xbox one delivered such good speed test results ... granted wired connection will allways be king ... and powerline adapters are just too much "hit and miss " .. older homes with poor wiring seems to hold back powerline adapter performance ..... i have all wired and buy only white cat6e cables so they are virtually invisible on the skirting board ( and you mrs wont hound you about "all those wires " ) ...... good video vince ..been subscribed for nearly a year now ...
My wireless connection is 177 Mbps download and 11 mbps for upload with 94% wireless strength, but I get dropped from xbox live with a complete disconnect from the internet ever 10 or 15 minutes. Can someone tell me what's wrong?
Latency and bandwidth are not the same thing. Typically, the higher the connection speed the higher the clock rate that the data is sent resulting in lower ping times, but not necessarily higher bandwidth because the provider limits your bandwdith in the provisioning of the circuit (they do not change the clock speed, only the amount of cpu time given to move the actual data). If you tested the bandwidth being used while gaming you would find that most games use under 128K and could run on an ISDN, DSL, Cable or FIOS. The ping times would not be the same because of the clock rate, not the data rate. On my 30G Spectrum I had 29ms ping for both hardwired and wireless (using a fast Asus router). With Frontier FiOS (150/150) I get 17ms when hardwired. The lower ping time for FIOS is based on the higher clock speed, which also prevents me from using coax within the house. What I should have done was a traceroute when I had the Spectrum to see how many hops I was going through. You can have the fastest connection in the world, but if you are going through 20 hops to reach a server you will have a high latency, even if your bandwidth is good. NOTE: this is a better example of latency and bandwidth not being related. The time to send a packet across the USA might take 100ms due to the number of routers it goest through while maintaining a great download speed. Fast data rate, but slow latency.
Yeah. Powerline uses electrical circuit in your house, moca 2.0 uses coax cable to achieve 2gb download speed, then there's wifi repeaters, mesh networks, wireless access points and routers. And they all vary. Some are both or more. Spoiled for choice.
The average ping Xbox-router may be similar for power line adaptors and nearby unimpeded WiFi, but the standard deviation of the ping will generally be much lower with power line adapters. A lower more stable ping is much more important for online multiplayer games than high download speeds.
i think my Virgin Media modem has a problem with it's ability to emit a good wifi signal, as i struggle to get wifi all over my house. If i can't get a new modem i'll have to get this powerline adaptor which seems good. Thanks for the video, i never knew those things existed
Really informative video. I'm also surprised at the wireless result. In my own house the router is downstairs in one corner of the house whilst my son's bedroom is upstairs in the opposite corner so WiFi is hit and miss at times leading to much rage quitting and teenage whining! I'm going to go for the Netgear Powerline - I'll post some results here at the weekend as a comparison to yours.
+Wayne Templar OK here are my results (average of 3 tests and speeds in Mbps) D/L U/L Latency Packet Loss Signal StrengthPowerline 8.9 0.85 183ms 0% N/AWireless 3.7 0.48 194ms 0% 51%Wireless (with extender) 9.0 0.86 191ms 1% 84%What this shows is that the Powerline and Wireless with an extender are able to get near the full speed of my internet connection which is only a puny 10Mbps. When tested on my PCs the Powerline delivered a LAN D/L and U/L of around 55Mbps (on a 100Mbps Ethernet card) and the wireless delivered 32Mbps on a 54Mbps card). So the Powerline looks to have the better performance, but what the tests really show is that the wireless extender really helps and my internet connection speed sucks :'(
My wireless is around 80 to 100 mbps. I cant imagine what it would be if I had a wired connection. Also great video and comparison. Seems like wired isnt that much of a difference
That is the correct pronunciation of the word, as it routes traffic. Same as a highway sign (Such as Route 99), or a kid's paper route. The other pronunciation of the word, where you say "out", is a woodworking tool. Router is a heteronym and Americans adopted the second pronunciation (the woodworking tool) for networking devices, when it should have been the first pronunciation ( to direct along a specified course).
@@laurencecastle2321 Americans didn't adopt one pronunciation over the other. It's not like one day we took a vote and decided on one over the other. It happens over time and it doesn't make one and more right or wrong. It just is American English.
When it comes to gaming, the download speed doesn't matter. As long as it's at least a few megaBITS, it should be more than enough. I'd rather have a 15 megabit connection with powerline over 60 wifi because wifi isn't as stable and will almost certainly lag more
I would have liked to see you do each test (wireless, wired, and power line) 3 times each for the repetition and also so that you could take the 3 scores of each and work out an average I don't know that's just me but still a good video
That reminds me of the old school physics practicals where you had to take data 3 times (for absolutely nothing) in a row and end up with a fucking wrong result.
Power line adapter, huh.. Exact results as I figured before test, at least in what position anyway. Still thanks for sharing. Very interesting, you remind me of my friend & me in the early 2000's. Cheers m8.
My Mate VINCE look forward to it I have a pair of old tp link adapters so it would be good to see how much better new adapters can perform. keep up the video's mate.
Powerlines are still technically better then wireless because you have a more consistent connection. Usually your ping and download/upload speeds are going to stay very consistent while with wireless, it could change drastically. Depending on how good your router is, it's most likely better to get a powerline connection with a consistent 20mbps then a wireless connection that jumps for 20mbps to 50mbps to 15 and so on.
I'm so confused! So depending on the ethernet cable you get, that's the MB/ps your going to get? Same goes with the Ethernet router. My final question, When using a Ethernet Router for the Xbox, can you connect other devices such as Phones to use the wired Wi-Fi?
Hello, i think the test would be more relevant if the internet connexion would be very higher. You will never use the full bandwidth of wifi n that goes up to 450Mbps and neitherless the bandwidth of a cat6 eth cable. Wifi speed depends of so much things, Maybe this test is interesting to compare latency and packet loss, but speed 😕
Think this video is a bit miss-leading, the 'ping test' is not responding with the 'virgin router' but an' Xbox server' (possibly in USA or outside UK), so the 156-160ms results is based on one result and is only 4ms difference which is considered to be nothing. When you play a well designed game like Fortnite, it will try and connect you up to players within your same country, what is important is the 'stability' for a FPS gamer, the speed of download is useful but the stability is what we need. So Wired and Powerline should top the results and then Wifi. If you was more interested in downloading games or games with rich content then you would then consider WiFi as a strong alternative as the ping ms becomes less important.
I just ran this test out of curiosity. Down/Up/Loss/Latency Wireless: 89/12/4%/206ms Wired: 620/266/0%/22ms lol, not even close. Now gotta figure out where to run these wires.
My download speed is 36mbps, and my upload is 9mbps. My latency is 21ms. I use a CAT7 ethernet cable. With 3-4 other devices connected to the internet, my download speed is 28mbps, upload is 8mbps and latency is 28ms. Then again I have a 20 metre cable. Maybe a 10 metre cable will speed it up a little.
I did the same test 3x for each connection type, with the average my wifi was only 2MB slower than the power line. Having said that my house is only 10 years old.
I'd like to say that I have my router right next to my Xbox and usually run wireless. and when I tested the speeds I had a 112 download speed with 68 latency and 0% packet with 100% wireless strength. upload was 11 so would wired be better? or is that the best I'll Get?
Hello just reading your blog about this hi ping on xbox I have a ping of 1/2 in london and one of the fastest Internet provider in the UK on pc but on xbox it's 145 . Way isent there a uk server for xbox anyone know .thanks
I took your advice and did the same as you do in this video. Before putting ethernet cable into the Xbox it showed 28 download speed, after plugging the ethernet in its only gone up to 29 download. When I run a wireless test through my phone and a wired test through the Xbox at the same time, they both show 29 download speed...are they sharing that, or are they each recieving 29 download speed? Great vid by the way.
What I see is a mass amount of people blaming their router connection over almost everything on a consistent basis. I mean, isn't it at least a LITTLE possible your net company is ripping you off blind? Y E S!!! Like how is that so hard to admit.
