After I bought my Storevault system, I discovered that the 6 year old powerline adapters from Netgear were no longer cutting it.

The bandwidth was okay but the latency blew chunks.

My first option was to get an improved version of the product. The problem with the improved version was that although bandwidth had improved and latency had improved, it was still too slow. For example, a ping revealed at least a 3 mS average.

My next option was to look at wireless networking and try and create a wireless bridge.

At first I was terrified by the fact that such technology did not seem to exist. I believed I would have to enter the realm of custom hacks etc.

But Netgear came to the rescue with their  WNHDE111 devices.

Now the good news is that the devices were very, very easy to put together and use.

The other good news is that I got the latency I wanted (1mS).

The bad news is that I can not seem to get reliable bandwidth. I can not seem to get more 15->18Mbit/Sec. Which is annoying because it means I can not stream HD video from a CIFS share. Given I have an HD capable camera, that is a major bummer.

Obvious issues are the distance (greater than 20 feet), and the intervening walls.

So i am not expecting full 300Mbsec. I am expecting approximately 100Mbits. And I don’t even get that.

My first thought was: oh well. But then I started to fiddle with the equipment and observed that I was able to get 100+Mbsec. But not consistently.

Another wasted Christmas 🙂