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PL1200 Is a piece of junk!!!!!!!!
Don't buy!!!!!!! It loses connection all the time. Get a ZyXEL PLA5202 You will be happy you did, because the Netgear PL1200 wil give you nothing but headachces. The ZyXEL lets you turn off power...
I find power saving mode/standby mode causes no end of problems with Netgear powerline adapters. Netgear will tell you that the PL1200's don't have standby mode, or that it cannot be switched on or off, however Zyxel's powerline software finds the setting and changes it.
Check out my earlier post here:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Powerline-Networking/Netgear-Powerline-1000/m-p/1129924#M3771
This explains the software version you can use to turn off standby mode on the Netgear units
I have done this on all my newer Netgear adapters (PL1200 and PLP1200) and they work perfectly well now.
The link to the Zyxel software is here:
ftp://ftp.zyxel.com/PLA4201_v2/software/PLA4201%20v2_V7.0.2.14.0611.zip
Hope this helps
Running strong all day. I have been watching my Directv Now all day. Never once has it stopped. Netgear really needs to release a new firmware that corrects this problem and update their Utility software. Thank You so much. I finally am able to use them.