Hmm you're confusing me now. The 200Mbps rate of the Hotplug is not really relevent, you only get that speed transferring between devices within your home. If you are saying your broadband speed is 1/5 of what is recommended for iplayer, that would make you download speed 200kbps if they are measuring SD speed or 700kbps if they measure HD speed, both which seem pretty low- what speed do you get on this speed test (note you should stop any downloads while testing speed).

You will not get anything like 200Mbps from a real installation. It's the theoretical maximum over a very short 240V clean 50Hz connection. Real mains are far from clean and the actual transfer is always much less especially if the 2 devices are on different ring mains. For this application it does not really matter provided it's not the bottleneck. Try and stream 1080p25 over a pair and they will likely struggle

Yes I know its not relevent (200mbps)I am stating that according to the manufactures of hotplug AV , it is the one they recommend for HD AV streaming .
Do you get it know.

Sorry Iwas responding to your post where you said "From the above post it looks like I will not be able to receive this service , if bob says he is recommending homeplug AV this runs at 200mbps my connection is only an 8 mb one from tiscali and can't be increased as this is the limit in my area"

it sounds like you thought the speed of the homeplug had to be close to your bb speed, also I don't quite get if your BB speed is 8Mbps the BBC broadband checker said you had only a 1/5 of the speed availiable? It sounds like your isp may be throttling your connection?