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Review: Powerline networking - can it deliver?

by Michael Harries on 6 August 2008, 05:20

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Multi-file transfers

Our second test is a multi-file transfer. We time the transfer of a 2.94GB directory, featuring 29 folders and sub-folders, which contain, in total, 200 music files (476MB); 300 picture files (644MB); and 100 video files (1.84GB).




In our multi-file transfer test, all three networks offer slower transfer speeds than with a single file, due to the increased communication overheads involved transferring multiple files.

The performance drop off is far more extreme on the Corinex though, with the speed for transferring multiple files being less than half that of a single file.