NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
PLP1200 powerline PLUS PLW1000 or 1010?
I have installed a PLP1200 kit and it works great to get ethernet up to an upstairs office in a brick home, from a downstairs room with a Comcast Arris wireless cable modem router. This system repla...
Thanks for the suggestion. Netgear product specs state that the wireless transmitter PLW1000 works to a 1000bps standard, while the PLP1200 powerline is a 1200bps standard. Both are "Homeplug AV2 compliant," which I guess means they will work on the same powerlines. Still wondering if I would need to install BOTH transmitters in the downstairs office, in order for each of the slightly dissimilar units to work in different rooms upstairs, or if the PLP1200 powerline signal will also send a compatible / suficient signal to the PLW1000 ethernet plus wireless transmitter that I want to install in a second upstairs room.
I am a bit confused by your reference to two "transmitters".
Only the PLW1000 us a transmitter in the sense that most of us understand it. It is a wifi transmitter/receiver as well as a powerline plug.
The PLP1200 is just a powerline plug. It doesn't do much in the way of transmitting in the conventional wifi sense. It just sits on the network exchanging information with other plugs on the mains LAN.
The PLW1000 will also take part in this LAN exchange but it also has the added ability to handle wifi.
All of these plugs will take part in the "over the mains" data exchange that comes out of the powerline plug that is attached to your modem/router. The PLW1000 doesn't depend on anything from the PLP1200, beyond handling stuff that is connected to it.
The 1000 and 1200 thing are solely related to the LAN speed over the mains circuit. They have nothing to do with wifi speeds.
Just stick the PLW1000 in the room where you want to provide wifi and away you go.
Things will work at the 1000 speed, but I bet you won't notice any difference.