devolo dLAN 200 AV - Review and testing
Posted: Sunday, 01.06.2008 09:09
Some devolo power LAN testing results from our home.
Basically, I can use devolo decently everywhere in the house. Most places is even good for real time video streaming.
The testing software used is iperf 1.7.0 (old version, 2.0.4 is the latest). These data throughput values (speeds) can be considered as net. since the TCP overhead is measured along as well. Every power plug was tested at least twice.
For reference (all data throughput values are gross - net values are sometimes far below) ...
Mbps - megabits per second
MBps - magebytes per second
LAN: 100 Mbps
devolo: 100 Mbps (duplex, maximim)
video streaming (2 MBps): 16 Mbps
Here the different power plugs. The server is located on floor 1. "-1", "+3" ... denotes the different plugs (disregard). All speeds in Mbps:
Here the server stdout:
Basically, I can use devolo decently everywhere in the house. Most places is even good for real time video streaming.
The testing software used is iperf 1.7.0 (old version, 2.0.4 is the latest). These data throughput values (speeds) can be considered as net. since the TCP overhead is measured along as well. Every power plug was tested at least twice.
For reference (all data throughput values are gross - net values are sometimes far below) ...
Mbps - megabits per second
MBps - magebytes per second
LAN: 100 Mbps
devolo: 100 Mbps (duplex, maximim)
video streaming (2 MBps): 16 Mbps
Here the different power plugs. The server is located on floor 1. "-1", "+3" ... denotes the different plugs (disregard). All speeds in Mbps:
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floor 2
loft 6.6 7.0
floor 1
office -1 15.2 13.0
gilles +1 10.2 9.7
gilles +3 9.9 10.5
mika -1 11.9 12.8
sleeping +1 13.0 13.0
bath -2 7.8 7.4
floor 0
hall 13.2 10.6
kitchen +1 13.7 11.1
kitchen -1 12.3 10.3
eating -1 10.9 10.6
living +1 11.6 12.1
living -1 5.0 4.3
living tv 6.8 7.1
floor -1
washing +1 13.7 11.8
guest +1 9.2 8.9 7.8 8.1
guest +2 8.3 8.3 9.7
play -2 11.5 9.9Code: Select all
D:\Program Files\iperf>iperf -h
Usage: iperf [-s|-c host] [options]
iperf [-h|--help] [-v|--version]
Client/Server:
-f, --format [kmKM] format to report: Kbits, Mbits, KBytes, MBytes
-i, --interval # seconds between periodic bandwidth reports
-l, --len #[KM] length of buffer to read or write (default 8 KB)
-m, --print_mss print TCP maximum segment size (MTU - TCP/IP header)
-o, --output <filename> output the report or error message to this specified file
-p, --port # server port to listen on/connect to
-u, --udp use UDP rather than TCP
-w, --window #[KM] TCP window size (socket buffer size)
-B, --bind <host> bind to <host>, an interface or multicast address
-C, --compatibility for use with older versions does not sent extra msgs
-M, --mss # set TCP maximum segment size (MTU - 40 bytes)
-N, --nodelay set TCP no delay, disabling Nagle's Algorithm
-V, --IPv6Version Set the domain to IPv6
Server specific:
-s, --server run in server mode
-D, --daemon run the server as a daemon
-R, --remove remove service in win32
Client specific:
-b, --bandwidth #[KM] for UDP, bandwidth to send at in bits/sec
(default 1 Mbit/sec, implies -u)
-c, --client <host> run in client mode, connecting to <host>
-d, --dualtest Do a bidirectional test simultaneously
-n, --num #[KM] number of bytes to transmit (instead of -t)
-r, --tradeoff Do a bidirectional test individually
-t, --time # time in seconds to transmit for (default 10 secs)
-F, --fileinput <name> input the data to be transmitted from a file
-I, --stdin input the data to be transmitted from stdin
-L, --listenport # port to recieve bidirectional tests back on
-P, --parallel # number of parallel client threads to run
-T, --ttl # time-to-live, for multicast (default 1)
Miscellaneous:
-h, --help print this message and quit
-v, --version print version information and quit
[KM] Indicates options that support a K or M suffix for kilo- or mega-
The TCP window size option can be set by the environment variable
TCP_WINDOW_SIZE. Most other options can be set by an environment variable
IPERF_<long option name>, such as IPERF_BANDWIDTH.
Report bugs to <dast@nlanr.net>
D:\Program Files\iperf>iperf -v
iperf version 1.7.0 (13 Mar 2003) win32 threads
D:\Program Files\iperf>iperf -s
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 8.00 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[1852] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50823
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
D:\Program Files\iperf>iperf -s
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 8.00 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[1852] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50824
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1852] 0.0-10.0 sec 100 MBytes 84.0 Mbits/sec
[1820] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50834
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1820] 0.0-10.0 sec 4.48 MBytes 3.76 Mbits/sec
[1832] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50838
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1832] 0.0-10.0 sec 12.2 MBytes 10.2 Mbits/sec
[1844] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50841
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1844] 0.0-10.0 sec 12.4 MBytes 10.3 Mbits/sec
[1836] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50842
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1836] 0.0-10.0 sec 11.6 MBytes 9.70 Mbits/sec
[1840] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50844
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1840] 0.0-10.0 sec 18.1 MBytes 15.2 Mbits/sec
[1852] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50847
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1852] 0.0-10.0 sec 15.5 MBytes 13.0 Mbits/sec
[1832] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50850
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1832] 0.0-10.0 sec 11.8 MBytes 9.90 Mbits/sec
[1844] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50855
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1844] 0.0-10.0 sec 12.5 MBytes 10.5 Mbits/sec
[1820] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50857
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1820] 0.0-10.0 sec 14.2 MBytes 11.9 Mbits/sec
[1836] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50862
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1836] 0.0-10.0 sec 15.3 MBytes 12.8 Mbits/sec
[1852] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50864
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1852] 0.0-10.0 sec 15.5 MBytes 13.0 Mbits/sec
[1840] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50869
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1840] 0.0-10.0 sec 15.5 MBytes 13.0 Mbits/sec
[1844] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50873
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1844] 0.0-10.0 sec 9.05 MBytes 7.59 Mbits/sec
[1832] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50875
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1832] 0.0-10.0 sec 8.81 MBytes 7.38 Mbits/sec
[1820] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50877
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1820] 0.0-10.0 sec 15.8 MBytes 13.2 Mbits/sec
[1852] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50879
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1852] 0.0-10.0 sec 12.6 MBytes 10.6 Mbits/sec
[1840] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50882
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1840] 0.0-10.0 sec 16.4 MBytes 13.8 Mbits/sec
[1836] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50884
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1836] 0.0-10.0 sec 13.3 MBytes 11.2 Mbits/sec
[1844] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50886
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1844] 0.0-10.0 sec 14.6 MBytes 12.3 Mbits/sec
[1832] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50891
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1832] 0.0-10.0 sec 12.2 MBytes 10.3 Mbits/sec
[1852] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50894
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1852] 0.0-10.0 sec 13.0 MBytes 10.9 Mbits/sec
[1836] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50896
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1836] 0.0-10.0 sec 12.7 MBytes 10.6 Mbits/sec
[1840] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50899
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1840] 0.0-10.0 sec 13.8 MBytes 11.6 Mbits/sec
[1820] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50900
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1820] 0.0-10.0 sec 14.4 MBytes 12.1 Mbits/sec
[1832] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50902
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1832] 0.0-10.0 sec 5.94 MBytes 4.98 Mbits/sec
[1844] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50904
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1844] 0.0-10.0 sec 5.12 MBytes 4.29 Mbits/sec
[1836] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50906
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1836] 0.0-10.0 sec 8.12 MBytes 6.81 Mbits/sec
[1852] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50911
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1852] 0.0-10.0 sec 8.48 MBytes 7.10 Mbits/sec
[1840] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50915
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1840] 0.0-10.0 sec 16.3 MBytes 13.6 Mbits/sec
[1820] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50936
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1820] 0.0-10.0 sec 14.1 MBytes 11.8 Mbits/sec
[1832] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50942
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1832] 0.0-10.0 sec 10.9 MBytes 9.16 Mbits/sec
[1836] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50947
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1836] 0.0-10.0 sec 10.7 MBytes 8.95 Mbits/sec
[1852] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50950
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1852] 0.0-10.0 sec 4.47 MBytes 3.74 Mbits/sec
[1844] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50955
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1844] 0.0-10.0 sec 4.77 MBytes 4.00 Mbits/sec
[1840] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50956
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1840] 0.0-10.0 sec 5.48 MBytes 4.59 Mbits/sec
[1832] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50959
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1832] 0.0-10.0 sec 9.94 MBytes 8.31 Mbits/sec
[1820] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50964
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1820] 0.0-10.0 sec 9.96 MBytes 8.36 Mbits/sec
[1828] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50965
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1828] 0.0-10.0 sec 9.69 MBytes 8.13 Mbits/sec
[1844] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50977
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1844] 0.0-10.0 sec 10.2 MBytes 8.58 Mbits/sec
[1848] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50979
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1848] 0.0-10.0 sec 10.3 MBytes 8.62 Mbits/sec
[1832] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50985
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1832] 0.0-10.0 sec 13.7 MBytes 11.5 Mbits/sec
[1840] local 192.168.1.5 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.103 port 50986
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[1840] 0.0-10.0 sec 11.9 MBytes 9.97 Mbits/sec
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