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dbareis
Aspirant
Aug 14, 2017

Adding PL1000 adapters to existing AV200 Network (xav1004, xav2001)

I have 3 existing AV200 adapters on my network and I just bought the compatible "PL1000" adapters.   I have found many links and sometimes contradictions in how to add an adapter, but let's start w...
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michaelkenward
Guru - Experienced User
Aug 15, 2017

First bit of advice, there isn't much point in adding AV2 standard PL1000 devices to a network that consists mostly of AV200 plugs. Everything will run at the speed of the "AV200", an early generation plug that may well be slower than your Internet speed. AV200 predates AV500, let alone 1000.

 

The manual for the XAV2001, which dates back to 2011, is here:

 

XAV2001 | Product | Support | NETGEAR

 

Note that it delivers "Up to 200 Mbps with real throughput greater than 80 Mbps".

 

Second suggestion, when adding new plugs to an existing network this is the advice to follow:

 

>>> Adding a powerline adapter to an existing powerline network <<<

 

If you want software to control the plugs, you have a couple of options. The Netgear desktop genie should show plugs on its map of connected devices. You can then "right click" that and get at some of the settings.

 

The alternative is to get the Zyxel powerline software. Several Netgear users have found that it wipes the floor with anything that claims to be compatible with their plugs.

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dbareis
Aspirant
Aug 16, 2017

Thanks for the speed advice of course if Netgear had that in the FAQ then I'd already know that, I was hoping for the best. As for speed the LED shows red but it seems fast enough. 

 

I have soft copies of all manuals but thanks anyway.

 

I tried the setup again today and this time it worked straight away.... Who knows... I tried following that page and many others.

 

Software:

  1. Do you know if the older powerline utility is (or isn't) supposed to work with the latest adapters? It tells you the speed of the adapters etc.
  2. NetGear Genie on Android, you need a NetGear router to do pretty much anything
  3. NetGear Genie on Windows, Network map seems the only relevant function and that detects a lot of devices but not the new or old EOP adapters.
    Someone mentioned that this software removes WIFI drivers, it didn't do that here but it did disable the WIFI adapter!
  4. The Zyxel software doesn't detect any EOP adapters either.

I'm thinking that the reason I can no longer detect the adapters might be that I put the 2 new ones between the ISP cable modem and my router and I'm behind the router.