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I needed more speed than that so I exchanged for the a/c wired 200 mps units which nets out to 80 mps at the receiving unit. I purchased the product to extended the range of my wifi especially when doors are closed. As a range extender it worked great but the product description says speed is 54 mps, but that is the speed of the wireless unit, the speed is actually 14 mps max due to the router until that is connected to your router.
Too pricey for the life of the product. Not a good product. Much better. Tossed transmitter and receiver and bought Hawkings range extender. The fourth unit I have purchased, and it is dead, too. They don't last long.
If you have a wireless router that can't even push the signal through a wall or a wire router that you want to make wireless then this might be a good buy. The signal wasn't even strong enough to go into the room below it. I have no clue how powerful the wireless strength was but it didn't make a difference for me in any outlets where it could communicate with the other half. When I got this product i thought great now i can get my router to reach my room in the apartment. Otherwise avoid it. What I didn't realize is that this thing can really only send the signal to adjacent rooms. I was thrilled of the idea of the signal going through the power cords. If your lucky.
All told, I spent 4-5 hours completely wasted, and returned the unit back to Amazon. Eventually I found I could remove the need for having this powerline extender on the VistaBiz machine by disabling IPv6 and setting the laptop to a static IP address and static DNS name servers (which the router console provided). Anyways, even once I was partially able to secure the network after using the powerline extender, my two laptops (one WinXP, the other Win VistaBiz) had different behavior when using the network; the XP I had to continually ipconfig release and renew, while the VistaBiz laptop continually had issues with only providing access to the network and not to the internet.
It was indeed able to provide a signal in my house in a far corner away from the wireless router, but only with the ssid provided out of the box by the manufacturer, and only in unsecured mode. Note that I decided to go with this Netgear unit, despite its potential config issues, because my router is also a netgear product, and actually the router has provided good service; I didnt think a linksys repeater would be easy to configure with the netgear router. I really was hoping this product would work for me, but I wasted hours trying to configure it with no success.
Perhaps I should have given the Hawking repeater a try instead. At least the return process was easy. Once I invested the time in trying to secure the wireless network, I encountered the same problems as many of the other users providing posts.
And similar to their experience, it took me hours of fiddling around with network settings and sniffers to identify the ip address of the unit's console.
I was told the signal was interupted by the circuit breaker, so I would get a strong signal, but very weak connectivity. There is no notice of this in any documentation regarding this product.
This item is useless to the home owner. I tried to install it in the same room as my main computer, on the same circuit with the same results.
After attempting installation of product for five days, reading online instruction manual, contcting Tech Support. It is required by the National Electric Code for safety reasons.
It should be identified as such. I was told that the item could not be installed in a house that had a circuit breaker in the house.
I do not know of any home or office built without circuit breakers.
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