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NETGEAR power line adaptors
I am hoping to set up some powerline adaptors in my home in UK. I need 1 x adapter for the router into the downstairs ring, 1 x adaptor for the downstairs smart tv preferably ethernet or at least...
Stadders1 wrote:
I have almost this set up using the old netgear AV200s but felt that It was time to speed up seriously as it takes an age to download a film on the main TV ...
If you can't get a decent speed to the TV with AV200, then anything faster in the way of plugs may not help.
Remember, the speed refers to the speed at which the plugs communicate over the mains circuit. When it comes to their LAN support, the old ones do "fast" (100Mbps) LAN, but newer kit has 1000Mbps.
What is your internet speed?
It looks like you want four plugs, one of them wifi'd.
Your set up is pretty well what I have. (See signature.) But my kit is AV500. The smart TV (well, BluRay player) streams just fine, with BT Infinity 1 at around 40Mbps.
I also have upstairs/downstairs. It isn't the ring that matters so much as that they come off the same fuse box. (I can actually connect to a nearby building even though it goes through a separate fused box that runs back to the same mains input.
Much to the annoyance of many people, Netgear prefers selling twin packs. You have just two options for the wifi, 500 and 1200:
Powerline Networking | Powerline Ethernet | NETGEAR UK
The choice is down to your wallet.
You can also get 1200 passthrough plugs. It isn't clear to me if these come in singles of twin packs.
Looks like you would be in for £140 at everyone's favourite high street chain.
Thanks that is most helpful. It looks like I will either go the whole hog and get 1200s or be a bit of a cheap skate and go partway and get an AV500 wifi one. What I really want is 2 ethernets, one to router and one to TV and 2 wifi, one for Amazon fire thingy in the kitchen and one for upstairs. I bought some BT AV 600s and they just do not work with the Netear sufff at all it is really annoying.
Jeremy
I bought some BT AV 600s and they just do not work with the Netear sufff at all it is really annoying.
That's odd. They should work. I have married different makes with Netgear plugs.
The problem is that the software that different makers supply may not see "competing" kit.
Thanks for that I really am most grateful.
Is there any way to get the utility to recognise the BT ones?
Jeremy
You should he able to use the standard "button presses" to marry the BT plugs to the Netgear one. But there is generic software out there that may see the different plugs. After all, they usually buy in their chipsets from one of the usual suspects.
Does BT supply anything?
Have you thought of visiting the BT Forum? There may be people there who know more about its hardware.