Tenda AV1000 Gigabit Powerline Adapter Review

Test Method & Utility

Test system:

• Supermicro C7Z87-OCE motherboard
• Intel Xeon E3-1230Lv3
• Corsair Vengeance 1866MHz 8GB
• Corsair H100i
• BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 10 850W
• Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD

We would like to thank BeQuiet, Supermicro, Intel, Corsair, Kingston and Lian Li for supplying us with our test system components

Receive system:

• Gigabyte Z79X UD5H-BK
• Intel Core i7-4790K
• Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB 2400MHz
• OCZ Vertex 4 256GB SSD
• CoolerMaster Silent Hybrid 850W PSU

There only is one factor that is important when testing a device like this, and that is throughput. To test this I’m using LAN Speed Test, a a simple and free to use application that creates a file of any given size and pushes it across a network to a given destination folder, thereby measuring the maximum speed of throughput during the file transfer.

Software used:

• LAN Speed Test

To get the most accurate throughput speed, I’ve set the file size to 1GB and run a series of 10 continues tests. To further add a variation to the data set, I’ve tested the adaptors at a varying range throughout my apartment where medium range is an estimated 20m cable distance and long range is an estimated 60m cable distance; the furthest I can go in my apartment.