I finally got around to wiring Cat6 to my desktop machines at home, and ripped out those powerline network adapters. I ran a test if iperf between my desktop and my router before and after the upgrade to see how things fared. iperf results before:
desktop1:~$ iperf -f m -V -t 30 -c 10.10.0.1
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Client connecting to 10.10.0.1, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 0.08 MByte (default)
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[3] local 10.10.0.241 port 35262 connected with 10.10.0.1 port 5001
[ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[3] 0.0-30.0 sec 510 MBytes 142 Mbits/sec
iperf results over Cat6:
$ iperf -f m -V -t 30 -c 10.10.0.1
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Client connecting to 10.10.0.1, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 0.08 MByte (default)
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[3] local 10.10.0.241 port 55044 connected with 10.10.0.1 port 5001
[ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[3] 0.0-30.0 sec 2135 MBytes 597 Mbits/sec
142Mbit/sec to 597 Mbit/sec. That’ll do.