Back in stock @ £40.50 delivered, not as good a deal but still cheapest around.

These were 44.99 as an Amazon lightning deal earlier today but it's expired now. It may come back around again

I linked them with an existing 500 plug and a 200 wireless extender. There are two ways to do it if they don't work out of the box.

You can attach directly to each of them with a network cable and assign them the same network name using the software which you can download from Zyxel or you can hold the connection button on each for 2-3 seconds and they will form a network together.

If you choose the button approach then you need to press the buttons on ALL of your plugs within a window of a couple of minutes so best to have them close by.

The quick start guide should tell you how the Zyxel can be joined to a network ones and most homeplugs are similar.

Hi

I have a pair of these already and live in a 3 story house with the router in the study and all my kit in a cinema room with PC,SkyQ, PS4 and i get 1GBit up there to my PC. but this will depend on your house wiring.
I have a par of 500MBPS TP links from the study to the garage and only achieve 100MBPS I have tried the 1GBit adaptor and still only get 100MBPS so their is an issue with the wiring possibly because it on a second ring main

I have the Cheapest package Virgin Router 80Mbps incoming upstairs spare room.
V Router > Cat6 cable > upstairs room adapter into Ring Main
Downstairs Ring main > Adapter > Cat6 cable > This laptop.

http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/

What I do/did:
My Adapters are TP-Link AV1200 Gigabit Pass-through.
You need to use quality Ethernet cables both ends
New Cat6 cables (recent HUKD Maplin offer) greatly improved adapter performance.

Improvement may have been previous poor cat 5 cables or cat6 technology. Can’t tell.

If you think the connection speeds are not as expected you might
swap with spare Ethernet cables if you can, to expose dodgy cables.
Of course it is difficul to apportion poor performance between, the Ethernet cables, the House wiring and the adapters. That is if your house wiring is poor, the best cables and adapters in the world won’t compensate for that.

I Power off downstairs remote adapter end overnight.
Power off/on the remote adapter and the adapter connected to the router if speed deteriorates.
Reboot V router if adapters power on/off doesn't restore speed.
Adapters automatically reconnect to router and each other after power off without manual intervention.

I just ran this test on this remote downstairs laptop used to post this.

Best of luck..

​Providing your wiring is good you could receive anywhere up to the full amount. Again providing it's good you should also get better and more stable ping than via WiFi, so any online gaming would work better.

I have some 1200Mb/s ones and get about 40Mb/s so I would think you would defo see an improvement.

As far as I know the 500mbps and below units are talking about the total throughput of the system and the maximum per connection is limited to 100mbps by the 10/100 ethernet ports. These 1000mbps units have gigabit 10/100/1000 ports and so the maximum per connection in theory is 1000mbps. So if you have 150mbps you aren't going to achieve that on a 500 kit.

Your understanding is in theory correct, but the powerline rated speeds are always seriously overrated, even though it depends on your wires too, higher rated ones usually get better speeds.

This deal is a fantastic price, you should not consider getting 500mbit ones if you actually hope to achieve a 150 signal, that's my experience anyway

Each device contains a switch, so you connect one cable from the router to one of the plugs and 3 devices (or switches) to the other 3 ports on the plugs.

Ethernet hubs don't really exist any more, switches are much better.


Yes that should work, Leave the modem port empty (plug the powerline adapter into one of the device ports on the second router not into the modem port).

You will also need to disable the DHCP server on the second router and make sure the second router is configured to use the a different IP address for management (E.g 192.168.1.1 for the main and 192.168.1.222 for the second).

That will essentially use the access point and switch inside of the second router, ignoring the modem/router part.

An ethernet cable needs to connect one of the 2 units to the router. That way the broadband signal is delivered to the Zyxel unit.

yes I've just done exactly the same! :-)

I don't think so. I tried to find this item from using the farnell link in quidco but seems to be a different site, maybe a subsidiary? couldn't find zyxel, homeplugs etc from searching

Thats what I thought just checked amazon and eBay and similar selling for 60pounds

Gigabit :man:

if you set these to the same network as your existing tplink they will operate at 200mbs, you can run two networks 1x200 plus 1x1000 and they are supposed to work but i didn't have much success with a 200 and a 500 dual setup but it was my mates and his wiring was dodgy :smile:

​I've heard of users having compatibility issues with the Zyxel and other brands, but they didnt confirm the model so I wouldn't be able to say for sure either way.
if you're existing adapters are running at 200mbs then IF the Zyxels are compatible, they'll only be able communicate with your current ones at 200mbs, providing they are atleast powerline AV, which at that speed they should be.
If it were me, i wouldnt risk it if you need to continue using the other adapters, but if you're considering replacing the setup with these faster ones, then i'd go for it.
Also worth baring in mind that theres now AV2 Mimo adapters, that use the ground wire to increase stability, but i'm using 1gb tplink av2 adapters with no isssue.

Contents clearly shows '2x Powerline Adaptor, 2x Ethernet cable and user guide ' and the EAN number on the page is on other websites showing a twin pack, so I think this is for 2 units.
Nice fine OP, heat added

Me2

Looks like 2 to me.