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bernso's avatar
bernso
Aspirant
May 25, 2018

Monitoring software for PLP1000

Hello Is there a Netgear Windows 10 software available to monitor the performance of my powerline adapters ?  (Like I have from other vendors) I cannot find on the Netgear web site.
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michaelkenward
Guru - Experienced User
May 25, 2018
bernso wrote:

Hello

Is there a Netgear Windows 10 software available to monitor the performance of my powerline adapters ?

 

What do you want to monitor?

 

If you are lucky, the desktop genie can show a Powerline map. You can then "Right click" to see some information .

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    bernso
    Aspirant
    May 25, 2018

    Really I want to see very little. Just the bandwith both ways.

    What is the "desktop genie" ?

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        bernso
        Aspirant
        May 25, 2018

        so far I used "TP_Link Powerline utilty" and "CPL Devolo informer" with previous CPLs.

        these are simple tools that show me the bandwidth which is the critical characteristic of the CPL plugins : so many Mbits/sec this way and so many Mbits/sec the other way

         

        I do not find the "desktop genie" on my Windows 10. I reckon it is french and may have another nickname   :)

         

        SImple file transfer seems to show my CPL are working fine, but I cannot do a file transfer every time I want to check network is fine.