TRENDnet Powerline 500 AV Nano Adapter Kit,TPL-406E2K,Plug & Play Install

Plug these in and you got an instant ethernet connection. I was able to get between 5MB/sec and 15MB/sec depending on a number of factors. That being said, this was in a condo building with a lot of electrical signal noise so your results may vary. In any case, these tended to be much, much, much more reliable than wifi in our situation. They are very easy to setup and would be FAR easier than trying to get wifi to work in a larger building or perhaps if you live in an apartment or condo where there's TONS of radio interference from other routers. Also good for putting a wifi access point on another floor of your house. BIG THING TO NOTE: You MUST put these on the same "phase" in your electrical box as I believe I read someone else say. This means that to get any decent performance, you want the outlets to be on breakers that are on the same side of the box. Most boxes have two rows of breakers, so if say your outlets are on the left side, you're golden. If the outlets are controlled by breakers on the left and right side - you might have zero to severely degraded performance. YMMV. In my experiments, I did speed tests in the same room (outlet to outlet on the same circuit) and got the same results as living room to office (two different circuits, but same phase). ALL THAT BEING SAID: - YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER COAX adapters. These are adapters that like these, plug into an existing wiring system in your house (cable lines) and are generally faster and less finicky. They are a little more money though. So if you are looking for REALLY good speed on your local area network (say for media streaming from server in your office to the living room), then maybe coax is worth the extra coin. IF you're just expanding internet access or something, then these are good enough. As far as bandwidth, if your internet connection is slower than 50MBit (as advertised) then this will not add any speed penalty for you. Anything higher, it will. Most residences only have 1.5-30Mbit so you'll probably be just fine.

Bought these to replace my tp link power line adapters due to possible hacker activity news. These were very easy to set up and work really well with my asus wifi7 router which was also used to replace my old tp link router. One of these was used with a smart plug for my Canon laser jet since it isn't used often. The problem that I had with the tp link adapter is when powering up the adapter and the printer, the printer would fail to receive an ip address from my router which would lead to fiddling with the smart plug and tp link adapter. But with these new ones it locks in the ip address immediately and I have access to my printer and its scan function. Very happy with these. Also use another one of these for my solar PV communication and haven't had problems with that either. Highly recommend. I've been able to get speedtest rates of 200-300 mb/sec speeds. More than I need for what I use them for.

**5 month update!** These are still working great and I have good news! I was able to use my existing desktop (an iMac) to send my internet connection to the first adapter in my office which is much closer to the breaker and I now have no loss in speed. So morally of the story is to try different outlets if possible if you are seeing a drop in speed like I was. I am even more pleased with these, especially since they are still the cheapest powerline adapters. So let me explain a few things before the review. I live out in the country with a decent internet speed that works well for streaming HD videos on YouTube and Netflix. With the wifi I get about 17Mbps all over my house. Not the fastest but for being pretty far out of town I'll take it. I recently got a garage built right next to my house with a walk way in between the house and the garage and the room with the router is probably 8 feet away but the garage is a metal building so wifi and cell service do not go through the walls into the garage. I like to have parties and such in the garage but with no wifi or decent cell service, streaming music and such takes a planned downloaded playlist. So you can't just decide on a different song or two with out it being a hassle. So I went on the hunt for a solution that wasn’t getting an ethernet line installed into the garage and found powerline adapters. I was a little skeptical with the signal having to go from one end of the house to the breaker box and then all the way back to the garage. I tested the adapters in the house and the speed dropped from 17 Mbps to about 7Mbps. I took them out to the garage and used the closest outlet to the breaker box with an old router I had sitting around to get wifi in the garage and it got me about 7Mbps as well. While the speed did drop it works well and I honestly am happy with it. These were the cheapest adapters I could find and they work well for what I need even though the speed did drop. Streaming music works just fine. Even a video or two works great. Happy I found a solution!

I bought this to fix a problem I had with Netflix streaming, and, after installation, Netflix works "perfectly." I pay Time-Warner for a "Standard Internet" cable connection, advertised as 15 Mbps. And, indeed, speedtest.net always measures 14.5-15.2 Mbps. The cable modem is on the second floor (where my office is) and connects to a Belkin F9K1001 WAP/router, a relatively inexpensive ($40-$50) and, hence, low-powered model. But until recently the wireless (802.11) signal was adequate for laptops on the main floor and in the basement. Our old, non-smart HD TV on the main floor is connected to the HDMI output jack of a laptop which streamed Netflix to the TV. In the last few weeks, the Netflix buffering became "unbearable" so I did a few measurements. I pinged the Belkin 100 times. The result was a huge variance in ping times: an average of 62 ms with a huge variance, a low of 1 ms and a high of 298 ms. In addition there was 3% packet loss. When I connected the laptop directly to the Belkin using a wired (Ethernet) connection, the result was no variance, an average of 0.3 ms, and 0% packet loss. So one solution seemed to be to connect the laptop to a wired, rather than wireless, connection. In my old, non-smart house, installing an Ethernet cable from the second to the first floors would have cost $300-$500. Enter the TRENDnet. I installed it as others have suggested, directly to a two-outlet wall outlet (rather than, say, a power strip). Its profile allows full three-prong usage of the remaining outlet. It worked out of the box. I didn't even need to press the sync button. Now the laptop on the main floor has a 3 ms ping to the Belkin with little variance and 0% packet loss. speedtest.net measures 15.1 Mbps. Netflix (and other video streaming) now work flawlessly. Having one TRENDnet wired to the Belkin upstairs opens other possibilities. TRENDnet claims that up to 7 such wired Ethernet ports can be created, wherever you have an electrical outlet. I may, in the future, connect a more powerful $100 WAP/router (e.g. with external antennas) to the TRENDnet on the main floor to create a 2-WAP/router home LAN and boost the wireless signal throughout the house. Of course, another solution might have been simply to install that more powerful WAP/router on the second floor but that solution would have been three times as expensive. A different solution might have been to use the coaxial cable that Time-Warner had already installed but I didn't pursue that either as I believe it's also more expensive. Right now, I couldn't be happier with the TRENDnet and recommend it as a solution to flaky wireless streaming.

Review: TRENDnet500 Mbps Compact Powerline Ethernet AV Adaptor Kit (TPL-406E2K) First off, this product is a 10 star! Now my story if you care to know why I feel that way. I wanted to connect a desktop computer to my modem / router via Ethernet cable (was tired of the wireless hassles). With that hope, I ordered the TRENDnet 500 adapter kit. When I received the adapters, I first synced them together. Next, using the software on the shipped CD I created a network password for each. Lastly, I plugged one adapter to my modem / router and the other adapter to my desktop computer, both via Ethernet cable. From the start they worked! Was able to get onto Internet without any issues. And Ookla speed test showed 54Mbps DL and 12 UL (ISP provides 50 DL and 10 UL). Just as Trendnet claims... the adapters connect your devices to your router as though they were plugged together with nothing between. And because of the better than expected results, after about a month I ordered another adapter kit. This time, I connected the adapters to a Roku box and a Sony 3D Blue Ray Player. Again... everything working perfect! This time I synced each new adapter to the adapter that was plugged into the modem / router (rather than to each other). For context, my house was built in 2009 (age of house may impact product results) and my ISP is Xfinity Comcast (cable... not DSL). In addition, the distance from my modem / router to each device is approximately (again, distance across power lines may impact results)... Roku Box 35 feet Desktop Computer 20 feet 3D Blue Ray Player 15 feet I have had all four adapters now for only about three months. But in that short time, I have not lost Internet connection one time. And the speed tests on my desktop range from 45-55 Mbps DL and 8-12 Mbps UL. And all streaming on Roku Box and Sony 3D Blue Ray Player is in HD (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon). Lastly, because of the negative reviews I did an unscientific test to stress the adapters. Simultaneously, I steamed HD content on the Roku and Sony 3D Blue Ray Player and turned on the vacuum and hair dryer... then went to my desktop to run a speed test. Ookla results were 45Mbps DL and 10Mbps UL! Case closed... for me these adapters are worth twice their price. They have made me and my entire family happy campers (no more fighting about bandwidth / wireless connectivity issues). With the desktop and streaming devices all hardwired, our tablets and phones can now connect wirelessly without any hassles. Thank you Trendnet!

First off: these create a huge security vulnerability. These automatically connect with each other, so if you have an outlet outside or live in a multi-unit complex, if someone else had one they are instantly on your network. I would have rather at least had a pairing button that had a short-lived window of time. Now that the lack of security portion is out of the way, and you still really don't care about security of your network, these things are very simple to use. The units are interchangeable between being a client or source from your router. You plug them in and connect an internet cable and they start working out of the box. Speed doesn't seem super great, but better than spotty Wi-Fi, which is why I have 4 of them for non-essential devices, like a solar inverter monitor, Roku tv, and a controller, with the 4th connected to a firewall router. Yes, it's possible to steal internet from me, but at least it's not on the same network as my computer and they would have to be physical on my property.

Product: TRENDnet TPL-406E2K We have a WiFI dead spot and I've avoided running cables just because of the hassle of working in two crawl spaces with a suspended ceiling in between. Then I saw this little kit and I figured for the price I could save a lot of work and it wouldn't really be that much more expensive than cable, connectors, wall plates, etc. I was going to write a glowing review the first day I installed the kit and even wrote an email to a friend saying how great it was. It was amazingly simple to install and crawling behind stuff to plug the adapters in and run cables took more time that it did to get the "extended" network up and running. It worked great, until today when the two adapters appear to have lost connectivity Nothing has changed in the house. I tried new cables, updating firmware, resetting the adapters and nothing seems to help. I tried difference receptacles, even two in the same room, and the best I could get is one "bar" and 11 Mbps speed (per the included utility). When I moved the one adapter back to original location connectivity was lost. Online advice from TRENDnet is to try to find receptacles away from other electronic devices. Nice idea but isn't the point of these things to use electronic devices like computers, televisions, and game consoles which all get plugged in? Am I supposed to put the adapter in another room and run network cable back to my computer? I've often said to others that "something is 'the cheapest' for a reason" and apparently I ignored my own advice. So the TRENDnet TPL-406E2K is going back. While I'm tempted pay to twice as much as a similar kit from one of the big names in networking I think run that cable. I'm sure Amazon sells a nice pair of knee pads. <lol>

My internet service is ADSL, which is supplied via a landline, but I live in an apartment which has only a single telephone outlet located near the entrance door, and I wanted to locate my computer at the other end of the living room. I tried to do that using a WiFi router, but then the router interfered with my cordless phone because the base of the cordless phone were too close to the router. I had three options: a) Separate the router from the base of the cordless phone, b) Ditch the cordless phone, c) Run an Ethernet wire or a telephone wire from the telephone outlet located at the entrance door to the other extreme of the living room. I didn't wanted to run new wires, and ditching the cordless phone or the router was a no-no for me so I decided to give powerline adapters a try. My idea was to leave the ADSL modem near the cordless phone base, relocate the WiFi router to my computer table, use the powerline adapters to connect the ADSL modem to my router and then connect my PC to the router using an Ethernet patchcord, thus leaving the WiFi for my smartphone. That way I could leave the cordless phone where it was, while separating the WiFi router from the base of the cordless phone enough to avoid any undesired interference without having to run any new wires, and that is what I did as soon as I got the Powerline kit. In my current setup, between the AC outlets used by the powerline transmitter and receiver, there must be more or less 40 meters of electrical wire. The adapters were able to make a stable link of 197 Mbps between them, which is more than satisfactory to connect an ADSL modem to a WiFi router. Just for the sake of curiosity, I connected my desktop PC directly to one of the powerline adapters and I noticed that the ethernet port of my PC was able to establish a 1000 Mbps connection between the powerline adapter and the PC. That means that the kit comes with Gigalan ports. I then decided to do some tests and I found the following: a) The distance between the AC outlets used to plug the receiver and the transmiter affects the speed between them. The more the distance is, the slowest the connection is. b) To obtain optimum performance from the adapters, you should connect them directly to the AC outlets. They shouldn't be connected to the output of an UPS, AVR, or to a power strip with noise supression. Why? Because an UPS, AVR, and good quality power strips have filtering circuits which will severely degrade the signal produced by the powerline adapters causing a poor link between them or no link at all. This is very very important to take into account when using powerline adapters. c) The manufacturer recommends that the powerline adapters should be used in the same electrical circuit, same phase, same wire, same everything, in other words, between outlets controlled by the same circuit breaker; but I tested them plugging them between outlets connected by diferent circuit breakers and even different phases, and they still were able to stablish a link. The worst speed I got was when I connected them using two different circuits located at opposite phases, but even in that case I got a 27 Mbps link which is still workable. Seems that the key to success here is to plug them directly into the AC outlets. d) The highest speed I was able to get from the adapters was 480 Mbps, when a plugged them into the same AC outlet. Of course that was just a test because there is no sense in use the adapters that way. Again, the farther I went with the adapters, the slowest the link I got. e) Each powerline adapter has three indicators. There is one named "PL" which lits when the adapters have stablished a link. The user manual doesn't say a word about this, but the PL indicator lits either green or orange. Green means that the adapter was able to make a link of more than 100 Mbps, orange means that the link between the adapters is less than 100 Mbps and weak. f) In my case the stability of the connection is very good. No random disconnects. Considering what I bought the adapters for, I'm very pleased with them.

Teniendo un servicio de 100 Megabits, mi PC recibía una señal de unos 15 Megabits a una distancia de 8 metros con señal de 2.4 Gigahertz y de 40 Mb con una señal de 5 GHz. Eso, con pérdida de paquetes. El adaptador Powerline se sirve de todo el ancho de banda (80 Mb, porque "Telmex") sin pérdida de paquetes. Ideal para juegos en línea y streaming.

I am amazed with the functionality of this unit. I had reviewed a number of different "powerline" Ethernet solutions, and this unit fell around the middle with good reviews. The shipment arrived quickly ( PRIME reseller) I decided to try it out and I am over the moon with elation! If this is how all the TRENDnet products function, I think I will be considering them in the future for a lot of my requirements. This purchase has two adapters and two good quality Ethernet cables included. I use these within our home network. When testing the speed connection I lost a half a megabyte from when I tested directly from my modem, dropping from 62.5mbps, to 62mbps is not even noticeable. My house is approx. 1600 feet (multi-level) and the adapters are located at separate ends of the house. My house was built in the 60's and the electrical panel was updated 12-15 years ago. Extremely easy to install, no installation software required. This unit is a dream as I have now provided fast connectivity to a previously "dead" coverage in the house. I am going to start to do video reviews, so that the products I purchase can be demonstrated. I like helping people make the decision that is right for them. Only honest and personal reviews from me.

It was quick and easy to install. My internet modem/router is on the main floor of my house and my office is one floor above. With this device I was able to easily give my computer internet access without running long cables through the walls. I've been using it almost every day for almost 2 years and it has been working great 100% of the time. No issues at all. I would definitely recommend this for anyone wanting to get internet on a device that is too far from their modem to run cables. One thing I will say is that it does reduce my internet speed significantly, but it's still fast enough that I don't mind. My internet speed without the device is 180 Mbps and with the device is about 40 Mbps, so there is a 78% reduction is my internet speed. I used fast.com and checked it multiple times. Overall I would definitely recommend this product.

Muy funcional el producto para el uso en mi caso de un dvr y poder conectarlo a la red, muy útil para evitar tener muchos cables en casa para llegar a un sitio diferente de casa

Didn't want to have to run a ton of cable from my second floor to my basement; these adapters fixed that problem really well. When my computer was connected wired I was getting 80mbps. With the adapter I get roughly 15mbps, which isn't bad for what I'm using it for. Only have two issues with it, which aren't major. When I first setup the adapters I had to mess around in the powerline utility on my computer to get them to recognize each other. Also, probably about once or twice a day my connection will drop for five or ten seconds. It comes back up really quick, so it's not a big deal, but kinda sucks when you're in the middle of a game. Would definitely recommend for people looking for a straight forward solution to getting a connection where your Wi-Fi just can't seem to reach.