{"id":848,"date":"2021-09-21T15:36:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T15:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/?page_id=848"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:59:23","slug":"mixing-homepna1-0-and-2-0-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/mixing-homepna1-0-and-2-0-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixing HomePNA1.0 and 2.0 devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HomePNA1.0 (1Mbps) and 2.0 (10Mbps) can be mixed in the same HPNA network, but you may not get the speed that you expect.\u00a0 The following information (courtesy of\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netgear.com\/\" target=\"_offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">NETGEAR<\/a><\/b>) explains:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Although the two technologies (HPNA1.0 &amp; 2.0) can coexist, there are some drawbacks.\u00a0<b>HPNA2 devices cannot operate at maximum speed when combined with HPNA1 devices.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0 Whenever, there is a HPNA1 device in the network, the overall network speed will drop to approx. 3 Mbps for the HPNA2 devices, due to the network &#8220;overhead&#8221; required by the &#8220;compatibility&#8221; mode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">To put it another way, HPNA 2 devices will communicate with HPNA 1 devices at 1 Mbps, but HPNA 2 devices will communicate with other HPNA 2 devices at 3 Mbps or less. Once the HPNA 1 devices are removed from the network, the HPNA 2 devices will reach their maximum speeds.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HomePNA1.0 (1Mbps) and 2.0 (10Mbps) can be mixed in the same HPNA network, but you may not get the speed that you expect.\u00a0 The following information (courtesy of\u00a0NETGEAR) explains: Although the two technologies (HPNA1.0 &amp; 2.0) can coexist, there are some drawbacks.\u00a0HPNA2 devices cannot operate at maximum speed when combined with HPNA1 devices.\u00a0\u00a0 Whenever, there is a HPNA1 device in the network, the overall network speed will drop to approx. 3 Mbps for the HPNA2 devices, due to the network &#8220;overhead&#8221; required by the &#8220;compatibility&#8221; mode. To put it another way, HPNA 2 devices will communicate with HPNA 1 devices <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}