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Homeplugs (ethernet over power) are fine for some things, but they add so much latency to the network.

Wired is so much better.

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[–] Burn1ngBull3t@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I did switch from homeplugs to mesh wifi. The difference night and day. Less latency, faster and overall more stable.

I arrived at that conclusion because my servers were using a NAs as storage for most services, all of them separated by homeplugs.

When I relocated the NAS with the servers, everything went smoothly so yeah. Removed all of that and used mesh wifi instead (because the line for internet isn’t in the same room as the servers)

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

What's the ping? Max time to reach any device?

I use it to get to my basement of a multi story dwelling I rent in. From 3rd floor to basement is such a lifesaver

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

ping times have gone from 2ms and up to under 1ms, but thats how I got into them was to get internet from ground floor to second floor

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[–] oz1sej@discuss.online 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ooh, how do you measure network latency?

[–] SynAcker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

Ping is the command you're looking for. It will tell you the round trip time it takes for a packet to reach it's destination. Anything on a wired network should be 1ms and less.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

I love my EoP but yes, it's a big noisy bus. Ok for small checkins and pings etc. like wifi every device on the bus takes a time slot away from another. I do want to see what my electrical upgrade from old wires to thicker gauge inside of grounded EMT does for it though.

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