I was using the Netgear WNCE2001 for WiFi to my Panasonic Viera TC-P50S30 TV that does not have built-in wireless. Since the TV was preloaded with online porgrams like Amazon, Facebook, etc., I do not need a Fire Stick or Hulu or the like. Just need a similar internet adapter that has the ethernet connection for the TV.
These are the older, and cheaper, options. They have 100 Mbps LAN sockets. Newer plugs have 1000 Mbps, but that is probably faster than your TV's LAN, and faster than you need. Even 100 Mbps is likely to be seriously faster than wifi.
I suspect that the device you want to replace is a thing of the past.
In that case, you may have to buy the newer versions.They will work, even if the TV can't make the most of the LAN speed. But you never know what your next TV will be like.
But Netgear isn't the only maker of Powerline devices.
The good news is that you can mix different makes and different generations of plugs.
What's the problem with your WNCE2001? I have 2 - one works tirelessly, the other is quite flaky. I've swapped them around and its definitely the adapter, not the location. I have a powerline adapter at another location and that seems to be pretty reliable.
Like you, my unit was just perfect sitting right behind the wall where my WiFi Router was located and had been working great for several years. Then last week, we had a strange power outage where the power went out like someone flipping a switch 7 or 8 times rapidly until it went out for almost 10 hours. When power was restored my routers had to be rebooted but this unit failed to come back to life. And that's where I'm at now.
I would look at the same brand that you have as a router/modem. I say that because the utilities that work with one may work with the other. For example, the Netgear genie can map all devices on the network. Whereas my second network has a different modem and I can't view the whole network on one app.
