D-Link Powerline Adapter Starter Kit Ethernet Over Power Gigabit AV2 Up to 1000Mbps MIMO Internet Network Wall Plug In (DHP-601AV)

If you have an older specification powerline kit, and you're unsure if it'll help...Well, it most certainly will!he house I currently live in is old as hell; built back in the 1800's, so the construction is really thick and doesn't really allow for the penetration of wifi signals. Very unreliable, makes it very hard if not impossible to play FPS games since the signal drops out a lot.Powerline adapters are fantastic because instead of utilizing wifi, they use your existing power lines running throughout your house as the wire. It's basically turning your powerlines into ethernet cables, thus you get the latency and reliability of a wired connection.So, I figured I could try a powerline adapter set. I've been using a TP-link powerline AV200 for a few months now and it was ...okay. Better and MUCH more reliable than wifi, but i was still limited speedwise; My internet is supposed to be 100 mbps down and 10 mbps up...But I was getting anywhere between 25-40 mbps down and 10 mbps up with the TP-link. I wanted better. I know I could do better.Warehouse deal'd a set of these puppies. Setup was very VERY easy, just plug them in, press the button on each of them so they link up and you're ready to go. Instantly, my speeds increased 2 fold. Now I get anywhere between 70-100 mbps.And one of the biggest things to keep in mind too, PLEASE don't plug them into a surge protector. When I switched it out I got roughly 10 mbps more speed without one, so it helps.And don't be afraid to experiment with where you plug in your powerline adapter either. Different outlets might be on different breakers, so it helps to fiddle around a little to get the best speeds you can. Get a decent ethernet cord too, cat6.

This device works great as far as it is able and I am pleased, but there are realistic limitations when trying to run a megabit signal through house wiring. This is true for all powerline adapters, not just this brand or model.The speeds you will obtain will be different from outlet to outlet depending on your house wiring including: the DISTANCE between the two devices and the electrical panel, the number of WIRING SPLICES in the wiring between the two devices and the electrical panel. If possible try not to use the device in an outlet controlled by a wall switch.To get a baseline speed, plug the two devices into the same outlet and run a speed test. This will be your maximum obtainable speed. Then move the second device to other outlets around the house and re-run the speed test. Lower speeds obtained in some outlets are not the fault of the device but rather due to differences in the electrical wiring between the two devices.Even within the same room different outlets may give greatly different speeds because of electrical wiring differences. As an example, I plugged the second device into five different outlets in the same room and got speeds ranging from 20mbps to 70 mbps. What a difference!As a practical matter it's very hard to predict if powerline adapters will help in your specific situation, so test them out and return them if they don't help you. Running an Ethernet cable will almost always give better and more predictable results if it is possible in your situation. Even running an Ethernet cable as far as possible to a remote Wi-Fi router may be a better solution for you.So in the right situation powerline adapters work great but the results are hard to predict ahead of time.

Do not buy this. I bought this to replace my TP-LINK AV500 Nano Powerline Adapter Starter Kit, up to 500Mbps (TL-PA4010KIT) and improve my transfer speeds but I was wrong to go with this unit. While it is supposed to implement an updated version of the Homeplug AV standard the dlink units had a substantially inferior performance on all fronts. Thanks to my tplink units I know that my house electrical wiring works very well with powerline units, see my review of that unit here: https://www.amazon.com/review/R15HRB6RCAXMZ9/ref=cm_cr_rdp_permNow with my problems with this device (NOTE: the tplink units were completely removed from the wall sockets during this period):1) The ethernet led wasn't reliable, sometimes it told me that the network had been established but I didn't have any network and I had to manually unplug and plug the units again and see if it finally established the network.2) When streaming media from the NAS on my local network the player kept buffering. Since that doesn't happen at all when using the tplink units I know that the fault lies on the dlink units. For example, I was streaming ~12gb MKV video files from the NAS and the buffering occurred every 30 to 40 seconds, something completely unacceptable and that doesn't happen at all with the supposedly inferior tplink units I quoted above.3) This device doesn't have a software utility. Trust me, you may not need it often after initially setting up the powerline network and securing it (this is key) but when you do need it there is not substitute for it. For example the 'Powerline LED' in the unit it's supposed to tell you the health of the connection but it never changed colors once, not even when I clearly didn't have any network on (see #1). But even if it did the result would be inaccurate because you will rely on led colors and not actual numbers. How would you know if you're getting the full 1000mbps (unlikely) from just 700mbps or the more likely 300-500mbps? You just won't know the actual health of your powerline links. The tplink software utility tells you the exact number and you can actually see them fluctuating in real time.4) The unit heats up a lot. I couldn't hold them for long when they were this hot because it started to hurt. Heat is wasted electricity so this unit may not save as much electricity as it claims. I could've overlooked this one if the unit performed well though.I will return this and I think I'll stay in the tplink reservation when/if I buy another powerline unit.