TRENDnet 500Mbps Powerline AV Ethernet Adapter Kit - £27.49 Delivered at BT Shop + 3.03TCB
At a cheaper price.
The 500Mbps Powerline AV Adapter Kit, model TPL-401E2K, uses any electrical outlet to create a secure building-wide high speed network. Connect one of the included adapters to your network, and plug the other in to any outlet on your electrical system for instant high speed network access.
Connect the included adapters quickly using the convenient one-touch Sync button.
Use up to 16* adapters to network devices in different rooms without running new cabling.
A Gigabit Ethernet port on each adapter maintains high performance wired connections.
Manage the Powerline adapters with the included Windows utility.
LED displays convey device status for easy troubleshooting.
Advanced 128-bit AES encryption secures your network.
The included adapters are ideal for use in buildings that interfere with wireless networking signals.
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Edimax 200Mbps Homeplugs
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/edimax-200mbps-powerline-wireless-n150-kit-hp-2002apn-ebuyer-for-44-17-delivered-1297039
apparently - STOCK IS IN THE BUILDING !!
these look good, they have a new chipset,
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-reviews/31361-500-mbps-not-trendnet-tpl-401e2k-500-mbps-powerline-av-adapter-kit-reviewed
and £84.94 here!!
http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ProductID=11220
I just received my pair today. Any power strip or extension lead will reduce the speed by 30% to 40%, surge protector is even worse. I wouldn't recommend using one with extension lead for streaming video or transferring files between computer and NAS.
Although powerline/Homeplug adapters generally recommend avoiding extension leads, I have 3 or 4 running full-time off of 1-2m 4- or 6-way shoes with no perceptible degradation in signal, & have tested a pair running out to the campervan in the back garden through 35m extension + 3m 4-way shoe & internal power distribution system with about a 50% drop in throughput (stll an order of magnitude quicker, & more consistently so, than wi-fi alternatives). Please note that they will *NOT* work through surge-protected outlets or extensions (the surge protection & filtering strips the high-frequency ethernet carriers & signals off the 50Hz mains supply). If you really only need the one mains outlet at your router though, you may be better off getting a "pass-through" adapter, which will give you back the (now filtered & protected) mains socket on the front of the adapter. (or for the best of both worlds, check out BroadbandBuyer for the Solwise "Piggy6" combined 200M homeplug adapter, 3-port ethernet hub & 6-way mains extension)
P.S
If anyone has received their order, can they post what (real world) speeds they are getting i.e a file transfer or similar? My TP Link 200Mb tops out a 5 Mbytes/s (roughly 40 M/bits)
Edited By: cxxr on Aug 30, 2012 15:27
Are the 2 paired units on the same mains ring & without surge protected/filtered sockets ? If you use say one upstairs & one down, he signals have to go all round the downstairs ring, across the exposed consumer unit busbars, probably through a pair of elcb breakers then onto & around the upstairs ring, which massively extends the length of mains cabling they must traverse as well as introducing the extra potential points of interference & filtering.
Cheap n narsty "wallwart" power supplies such as mobile phone chargers are also frequently blamed for injecting electrical interference & noise into the system, particularly if they are sharing the same extension sockets.
Have you tried re-pairing the adapters?? they should forcibly re-negotiate the carrier frequency banks selected on a re-pairing to ensure that only the frequency bands with least interference/best reception at each adapter are used.
(I run netflix & assorted media streamers with zero problems, often simultaneously on 2 separate pc's, across pairs of 200MBS homeplug AV adapters, at least 2 of which are TPLinks, so they are quite capable of carrying all the bandwidth you need - one of the links is in the upstairs bedroom, so even the "crossing the consumer unit to a different ring main" problem isn't causing too much of a slowdown)
P.S If anyone has received their order, can they post what (real world) speeds they are getting i.e a file transfer or similar? My TP Link 200Mb tops out a 5 Mbytes/s (roughly 40 M/bits)
From a TPLink AV200 to Simpler Networks AV500 12' apart in the same room, both directly into mains sockets which are effectively adjacent on the ring main, powerline utility reports 185-195 Mb/s, actual throughput is around 65-80Mb/s (6.5-8 MB/s with ethernet overheads). From TPLink200 to the same AV500 on different floors, probably 65-70' of mains wiring apart, consumer unit & multiple other sockets inbetween, Powerline Utility reports 80-100 Mb/s, feels like maybe 4 or 5 MB/s throughput (that one is just on an LG Smart TV, not so easy to get measured throughputs)
I just received my pair today. Any power strip or extension lead will reduce the speed by 30% to 40%, surge protector is even worse. I wouldn't recommend using one with extension lead for streaming video or transferring files between computer and NAS.
Although powerline/Homeplug adapters generally recommend avoiding extension leads, I have 3 or 4 running full-time off of 1-2m 4- or 6-way shoes with no perceptible degradation in signal, & have tested a pair running out to the campervan in the back garden through 35m extension + 3m 4-way shoe & internal power distribution system with about a 50% drop in throughput (stll an order of magnitude quicker, & more consistently so, than wi-fi alternatives). Please note that they will *NOT* work through surge-protected outlets or extensions (the surge protection & filtering strips the high-frequency ethernet carriers & signals off the 50Hz mains supply). If you really only need the one mains outlet at your router though, you may be better off getting a "pass-through" adapter, which will give you back the (now filtered & protected) mains socket on the front of the adapter. (or for the best of both worlds, check out BroadbandBuyer for the Solwise "Piggy6" combined 200M homeplug adapter, 3-port ethernet hub & 6-way mains extension)
http://www.dabs.com/products/trendnet-500mbps-powerline-av-ethernet-adapter-kit-82QJ.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=product+search&utm_content=Q200
So why the massive price reduction? Have to query that... :)
Also had a look at some reviews, although American gives a good indication....
http://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-Powerline-Ethernet-Adapter-TPL-401E2K/product-reviews/B004D9V8C8/ref=cm_cr_pr_top_recent?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
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Edited By: cfbc on Aug 30, 2012 16:40
Surely that's 8:1? 8 bits in a byte and all that?