Seems like a nonsense product to me.

If you're going to integrate connectivity, you don't use crappy powerline - you lay ethernet cables.

Very hard under finished floors and walls and down the outside of a property specially if you live in a flat.

The only nonsense here is TehJumpingJawa's comment hes obviously someone who has never had to lay cables under floors or up walls or had to fix a failed cable, i suspect that he uses wifi and has no clue about wiring a property.

Now these look good...but so expensive

http://www.powerethernet.com/product/range.html

It's showing as out of stock ATM

Someone said they will work with any other make but the speed will go down to the slowest speed of a different make

Will these work with Trendnet TPL-406E2K?

​You can have as many of them on the same network as you like; different brands and different speeds - but if there are a range of speeds then they will all drop to the slowest speed

Quick question, is it possible to add say 3 or 4 of these powerlines and get them all to see each other? Or is it only like a peer to peer setup where they can only see one another connected in pairs?

If they can see each other, do they also work across different brands? Thanks in advance

Rubbishy comment. I have a whole network of powerline adapters and they work perfectly well.

So just to clarify... I want a better signal in my garage. Wifi just reaches and can be temperamental. I use ext lead to garage so would this still work? Be worthwhile?
Ta

I have a 7 year old house that has pointless phone sockets in because the front one goes upstairs front bedroom and the back one upstairs back bedroom. Neither connect to one point. I have a 200mb power line at the front socket going to the back room with a switch for server on tv and amp etc. i put another power line in for upstairs back room but the speeds were terrible they couldnt stream good quality and internet was slow. i took the telephone socket off and found it was cat 5 so put a connector on it and a joiner and connected it to the switch now have wired 1gb upstairs obviously can swap the socket plate with an ethernet one later so worth checking your phone sockets if you are in a newer build house to get cat 5 to rooms easier

Would these be compatible with my tp-links (500mbps rated) that I have already around my house? Or do all models need to be the same?

What reason would I have to exaggerate? I simply plug it in do a speed test and that is the average result, can't see what I'm doing wrong either, all you do is plug them in.

I have a second AC dual band WiFi router at the back of the house to get coverage. There can be several devices connected to it at any time, doing various things - most often steaming films or TV.

Initially it was networked to the main router wirelessly, then with 200mbps plugs, then 500 mbps plugs and the problems persisted. I spent a day running a cable between the two routers and although individual device speeds increased by about 30 mbps, it made no difference to the problems with multiple device connections.

So, on the basis that even the 200 mbps plugs could could cope with one or two devices streaming, then IMO, running network cable around the house is a waste of time.

If you have two or more of these powerline adaptor kits connected up throughout the house and they vary in speed ratings i.e. 200Mbps, 500Mbps and 1000Mbps, will they all drop and run at the slowest speed 200Mbps)?

Thanks.

People seem to miss the detail with powerline adapters, firstly the manufacturers do what no other networking company does and quote the full duplex speed, so gigabit is at best a maximum of 500mbit down and 500mbit up, also a lot of the 500mbit products (that's the 250mbit products in reality) only featured 100mbit LAN ports, yes someone decided to cripple a '500mbit' product with a 10/100 LAN port that would only handle a maximum of 200mbit full duplex. Please check the spec for yourself before buying - I haven't looked into this specific product but wanted to give fair warning.

Also good luck getting anything like the theoretical maximum speed.

SE London here...can get 980mb down 990mb up.

Source? Ofcom launched a consultation about the interference they cause last year, but as far as I know nothing actually happened?

Then your doing something wrong. Or exaggerating like mad.

This is notegal anymore as it causes interferences to the ham radio operators, and you could be fined £1000.

I have 200mb virgin broadband, with 600mb powerline adapters and the best speeds I get upstairs through them is around 7mbps, all my pc's have gigabyte cards too,
So better than wifi, but nowhere near the 200mbps I'm getting on the ground floor through cables and switches.

Wow amazing thread. Proper wired is always (currently) going to have better performance than powerline. What's there to argue about? Obviously if you can't run or hide the cables anywhere easily then powerline is the next option. Sheesh

Stick with your dedicated cables, much better solution :-)

I network everything together and stream 1080p over the network so I needed a faster pla than the 200mb one I have. Ordered this, will give it a go. For £24 not much to lose.

From my understanding the rate is the best case total in all directions - so AV1000 would be in theory 500Mb/s to and from connected PCs (and bound to be less in practice) so no 900meg broadband. With anything network you need capacity far beyond your working data rate.

Also a poster above is correct - a gigabit Ethernet socket makes sense for anything carrying near or over 100Mb/s - so that's just as true for AV500 as well.

You'll have much more chance than with 200/500mbps ancient chipsets with 10/100 ports.

well in York they are running fibre to premises and we are getting 900mbs down and 900mbs upload

These look like a bargain for a set with gigabit ports.

And saying you should lay cables rather than use powerline is nonsense. I picked up a set of Netgear PL1200s a while back and get 980Mbps throughput. Now while they are just shy of a full gigabit they cost £80 at the time which was a fraction of the cost of running cabling through my house. So running cables is often not the most suitable solution if you can get the throughput you need with these.

About 1/100th of the population of York? They probably care more about being under water right now.

Now these look good...but so expensive

http://www.powerethernet.com/product/range.html

Lots of variables with these plugs but the socket integrated units look very nice, albeit losing a plus socket. In my house the 500's weren't maxing out my 70Mb Virgin connection. I changed to 1200's and everything works as it should - including perfect Steam Home Streaming.

But you will get faster than 100mb thus improvement...what about those of us on 1gb Internet connection? We don't want to be limited to under 100mb, or even just internal network speeds.

you'll never get a GB so don't worry about hypotheticals......

Already posted similar item at much cheaper

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/15-99-bt-simpler-networks-powerline-with-mains-passthrough-pair-memory-2367069

That's what I thought... Easier to use the product posted or the ones I linked (they look good imo and not as unsightly as the plugs).

Heat added for the deal anyway

Very hard under finished floors and walls and down the outside of a property specially if you live in a flat.

The only nonsense here is TehJumpingJawa's comment hes obviously someone who has never had to lay cables under floors or up walls or had to fix a failed cable, i suspect that he uses wifi and has no clue about wiring a property.

How easy is it to lay ethernet cables?

I have a wired house but if i could eliminate a cable running down the house that would be great as cables fail and are a mare to change specially when under floors these are a great way to sort that issue for good. Its a dam sight easier to buy a new set of home plugs than pulling up your floors or hanging off ladders outside your house. I do have a set of home plugs but have never used them as my house is wired and because they are not as fast as a cat5e or cat6 cable but now they are perfecting them and the speeds on offer have climbed massively since 80-200mbps was the only options. You cat get 1500mbps plugs now that in theory should be as fast as gigabit wired only downside is that they are only really fast on the same ring main so if you want one upstairs and one downstairs you take a massive performance hit, i would hope they will sort that out soon then they will be a real alternative to wiring your house for data.