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User Rating: Amazon Sales Rank:#1412 |
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 powerline needs improvement, 2008-10-24
I never could get it to work, despite hours of effort and contact with customer support, so I returned it. Their final input was that it wouldn't work for me because different electrical outlets I would use were on different circuit breakers in the main electrical panel. Find much discussion about implementation failure at the LinkSys customer forums.
Throughput speed is horrible, 2008-10-21
Setup was easy enough. However, the throughput speed was horrible. I barely got 150 Kbps! That is approximately a 1 megabyte file in about one minute. I would not recommend this product to anyone.
 Works as advertised but here is a tip..., 2008-10-19
Works fantastically. You can even use them right out of the box -- but I suggest changing the passwords. Only issue I found is this: Don't use surge protectors or other in-line power management devices. The Adapters worked when plugged into them but were much slower and flakey. Directly into the wall seems to work best for me. I'm getting excellent speeds.
Well worth the money, 2008-10-14
These work just as advertised! Basically just plug them in and they work! If I need to add another Ethernet port anywhere in my house I will buy another one at anytime.
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 expensive alternative to running dedicated ethernet cabling, 2008-09-24
Stand in the home networking department of any electronics store, and within minutes you will hear customers asking employees what to do about their home wireless routers not covering their whole house. The failed promise of a single wireless router to provide adequate coverage has caused different products to be marketed. The Powerline AV adapter is one such product. Plug one in to an AC outlet near your broadband router and connect an Ethernet cable to your router. Plug another in to a distant AC outlet in your home, and plug in any network device such as a computer, access point, internet camera or printer.
Overall, this product worked. Setup was not smooth, though. The setup program and instructions have a few issues. You are told to run the setup program twice, once for each adapter. However, this starts the setup wizard again, which detects that you've already installed the configuration utility, and it asks if you want to modify/remove/repair. Then it tells you that you can click on an icon to register your product. However, at that point your PC is not connected to the Internet (unless you're using a computer with both a wired and wireless connection).
Worse yet, the configuration utility did not find the Powerline adapter connected directly to it in the discovery phase. I used a second computer which had both a wired and wireless connection, and the process went smoother. The protocol used to discover the Powerline adapters was not discussed, so it's hard to say what the issue was. After connecting, I immediately updated the firmware via a download from the Linksys website. This caused the powerline connection between the two units to stop working until I connected to the other unit and also updated its firmware (I'm not surprised that the new firmware wasn't backward compatible with the old). The discovery the next time around worked much better. As another configuration must, I changed the network password from its default to discourage eavesdropping in the unlikely event that a neighbor would receive this signal over the power line and try to decode or use it.
The only other complaint so far is that these units get extremely hot. At this high heat level, I can guess that they will not last too long due to stress on the electronic components.
In summary, these are worth a shot if you don't mind spending approximately $125 for such a connection. Running dedicated Ethernet cabling is still the most reliable and certainly the cheapest method, assuming that you have access to the walls and ceiling, and the required tools and knowledge.
For setting up these devices, you might want to get a network-savvy friend to assist you to avoid any frustration. Once set up, there is no further configuration to be done.
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