
So when considering exchanging equipment for speed reasons you should be aware of this fact. Therefore for most home networks the main reason for slow connections is the Internet speed, and not the local network. However if you look at the tables above you can see that the slowest Ethernet, the slowest Wi-Fi and the slowest powerline are all usually faster than the fastest Internet speed.

On home networks the flow is predominately to and from the Internet, and so your network design should also reflect this. Just like traffic on roads network traffic flows predominately in a certain direction.įor traffic on roads the flow is usually heavy into and out of cities, and you will notice that the size of the roads reflects this. Note1– All fibre connections have a top speed of around 300Mbps Home Network Traffic and Design Guidelines Note: old powerline adaptors may have an Ethernet connection of 100Mbps which would limit the connection speed to that.
