![]() All have pushbuttons for reset-to-factory-defaults and changing the default security code except for the Plaster PLN3, which provides these features via a web interface (the only product to have one).Įthernet ports are all 10/100 Mbps and Indicator lights are provided for power, Ethernet link / activity and Powerline Link / Activity on all adapters, except for the Plaster PLN., It has Ethernet link / activity lights for each of its two Ethernet ports. Oh well.Īll of the products are rated for 100 – 240 VAC operation except the XAV2501, which is 100 – 125 VAC. It looks like they added the DHP-307AV kit since I looked, though. I didn’t ask D-Link because I didn’t see any HomePlug AV compatible adapters. I also asked ZyXEL for a pair of their HomePlug AV adapters, but never heard back. I wasn’t quite sure why until I saw this news that posted as I was writing this article. I didn’t include any DS2 / UPA based products in this roundup because it looked to me like networking manufacturers were finally circling the wagons around HomePlug with their latest generation products. Plaster Networks supplied one each of the two flavors of adapter they make-more about Plaster Networks in a bit. Four of the products are kits of two adapters, which is how most folks will buy HomePlug. This roundup includes five HomePlug AV products as shown in Table 1. ![]() So let’s see if anything has changed in the past three years. I found a best case 60 Mbps speed with simultaneous transmit and receive streams when I tested a pair of ZyXEL PLA-400s back in 2007 using a first-generation Intellon HomePlug AV chipset. HomePlug AV kicked things up a big notch with a "200 Mbps" advertised speed. the original HomePlug’s 14 Mbps) and delivered about 20 Mbps of maximum real throughput, which faded to 10 Mbps or so once you had to span rooms. Turbo products were usually advertisted as "85 Mbps" (vs. Turbo was a stop-gap meant to hold the fort against DS2’s incompatible, but speedier 200 Mbps powerline networking technology while HomePlug AV languished. The last time we did a good look at HomePlug products was back in 2006 (!) with a roundup of HomePlug Turbo products. Introduction Updated: : Corrected Plaster Networks performance comment
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