Be wary of the speed claims on PowerLine equipment. You'd have to have the cleanest electrical setup in your house to get anywhere near the speed claims they advertise. I tried one of these once, had one unit upstairs and one downstairs, and I was able to create a link, but only at 0.5mbps. Needless to say, it was fairly useless and I returned it.
After shopping around and comparing specs. on these I bought one from Slingbox at Best Buy for 89 dollars. It has the same chipset in it as this one. Only real difference is that it only has one output per unit (the Linksys has one unit with 4 outputs). Since I was hooking it up to a wireless router configured as a wireless access point it didn't matter-that unit has a built in switch (it's a refurbed Netgear router that I got from Newegg for 13 dollars shipped-thanks FW!)
Had the Slingbox unit now for 4 months and it works great-I now have two wireless units in my house connected to one router and have seamless wireless all over the house and outside-no more dead spots
dpuopolo said: After shopping around and comparing specs. on these I bought one from Slingbox at Best Buy for 89 dollars. It has the same chipset in it as this one. Only real difference is that it only has one output per unit (the Linksys has one unit with 4 outputs). Since I was hooking it up to a wireless router configured as a wireless access point it didn't matter-that unit has a built in switch (it's a refurbed Netgear router that I got from Newegg for 13 dollars shipped-thanks FW!)
Had the Slingbox unit now for 4 months and it works great-I now have two wireless units in my house connected to one router and have seamless wireless all over the house and outside-no more dead spots
PinwiZ said: Be wary of the speed claims on PowerLine equipment. You'd have to have the cleanest electrical setup in your house to get anywhere near the speed claims they advertise. I tried one of these once, had one unit upstairs and one downstairs, and I was able to create a link, but only at 0.5mbps. Needless to say, it was fairly useless and I returned it.
Your right, but exactly the same can be said for Wireless B/G/N speed claims. Powerline setups have 2 clear advantages:
1. If it works, it works. Most wireless connections, even good ones, are affected by microwaves, cordless phones, and other gremilins on regular basis.
2. It works well right out of the box for a much higher percentage of people. Sorry it didn't work for you, but 46 of 61 reviewers giving it the max 5 stars cannot be matched by ANY wireless component.
yeah i get 10mbit from about 12 feet away tops unless the ceiling fan is on then it drops to 6mbps.
lets make that clear 6MB/sec peak . when the dyson is turned on that is 0MB/S.
good for a pc but doesn't cut it for any high def streaming (hdhomerun). great for security camera or other strange devices where wifi config gets in the way.
i paid like $20 each for a bunch of them. they are 200mbps. SUCKS even at that price lol
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