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- Powerline AV kit for extending the Internet to any room in your home
- Stream smooth HD video over your network
- Create secure, reliable, high-speed wired connections for network devices without running wires between rooms
- Ideal for HDTVs, network media players, game consoles, computers, and network storage drives
- Connect up to 8 network devices
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Product Description
Extend the Internet to Your HDTV.
Instantly create high-speed, wired network connections to seamlessly stream your high-definition media to your connected home theatre and gain fast, reliable access to the Internet.
WD Livewire Powerline AV Network Kit extends the Internet to any room using your home's electrical plug sockets. Stream the highest quality HD video, play games, and transfer files within the home or over the Internet using secure and reliable high-speed connections. Get the performance of a wired network without running wires.
Expand Your Home Network Instantly Without Running Wires
Wireless networks can beuseful, but they may not be as secure or as reliable as you'd like. If you're after a high-speed, uninterrupted connection in order to stream movies or to play games online, you can't beat a wired network. However, connecting your entire house with cables can be a time-consuming and expensive task
With Powerline technology you can create high-speed Internet connections anywhere in your home without running wires between rooms. By running the connection through a plug socket and using your home's existing electrical wiring to create a network, you can build a high-speed home network instantly, that you have the flexibility to move from plug to plug as you need.
Set-Up is as Easy as Plugging in a Lamp
Connect one adapter into your router, and then plug it into a wall socket. Plug the other adapter into a socket in any room where you want a high-speed connection. The adapters will then tranfer data over your home's existing electrical wiring. It's that simple.
Faster and More Reliable than Wireless
With speed up to 200 megabits per second*, the WD Livewire Powerline AV network kit is fast enough for every computer in your home to share your broadband Internet connection and still have the velocity you need to smoothly stream 1080p full-HD video to your TV.
*200 Mb/s is the ideal physical data rate. Network traffic, interference, building materials, and other conditions lower actual data throughput rate.
More Ports for More Devices
The WD Livewire adapter kit offers 4 ports on both devices in the pair. This allows you to plug in your router and up to 7 Internet-connected devices such as computers, TVs, game consoles, media players, and network storage drives. With today's increasing-connected homes, this allows you to cut back on wiring and clutter, without you having to unplug devices when you want to use the next one.
Encrypted for Security
The data transfer between the WD Livewire adapters is protected with the same 128-bit encryption that you trust for your online banking and shopping. And because the encryption is automatic, there's no need to remember a password.
Ideal For:
- Extending the Internet to any room in your home
- Smooth HD video streaming over your network
- Creating secure, reliable, high-speed wired connections for network devices without running wires between rooms
- HDTVs, network media players, game consoles, computers, and network storage drives
Manufacturer's Description
Extend the Internet to Your HDTV.
Instantly create high-speed, wired network connections to seamlessly stream your high-definition media to your connected home theatre and gain fast, reliable access to the Internet.
WD Livewire Powerline AV Network Kit extends the Internet to any room using your home's electrical plug sockets. Stream the highest quality HD video, play games, and transfer files within the home or over the Internet using secure and reliable high-speed connections. Get the performance of a wired network without running wires.
Expand Your Home Network Instantly Without Running Wires
Wireless networks can beuseful, but they may not be as secure or as reliable as you'd like. If you're after a high-speed, uninterrupted connection in order to stream movies or to play games online, you can't beat a wired network. However, connecting your entire house with cables can be a time-consuming and expensive task
With Powerline technology you can create high-speed Internet connections anywhere in your home without running wires between rooms. By running the connection through a plug socket and using your home's existing electrical wiring to create a network, you can build a high-speed home network instantly, that you have the flexibility to move from plug to plug as you need.
Set-Up is as Easy as Plugging in a Lamp
Connect one adapter into your router, and then plug it into a wall socket. Plug the other adapter into a socket in any room where you want a high-speed connection. The adapters will then tranfer data over your home's existing electrical wiring. It's that simple.
Faster and More Reliable than Wireless
With speed up to 200 megabits per second*, the WD Livewire Powerline AV network kit is fast enough for every computer in your home to share your broadband Internet connection and still have the velocity you need to smoothly stream 1080p full-HD video to your TV.
*200 Mb/s is the ideal physical data rate. Network traffic, interference, building materials, and other conditions lower actual data throughput rate.
More Ports for More Devices
The WD Livewire adapter kit offers 4 ports on both devices in the pair. This allows you to plug in your router and up to 7 Internet-connected devices such as computers, TVs, game consoles, media players, and network storage drives. With today's increasing-connected homes, this allows you to cut back on wiring and clutter, without you having to unplug devices when you want to use the next one.
Encrypted for Security
The data transfer between the WD Livewire adapters is protected with the same 128-bit encryption that you trust for your online banking and shopping. And because the encryption is automatic, there's no need to remember a password.
Ideal For:
- Extending the Internet to any room in your home
- Smooth HD video streaming over your network
- Creating secure, reliable, high-speed wired connections for network devices without running wires between rooms
- HDTVs, network media players, game consoles, computers, and network storage drives
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Customer Reviews
I have hesitated for a long time before buying a powerline adapator as my router is in the attic on one ring circuit and I wanted the adaptor by the TV on the ground floor on a different circuit. Would the technology work across different electric ring circuits? Yes it does, albeit with a significant drop in speed.
I tested 5 scenarios with my wireless ADSL router situated in the attic:
1) PC connected via ethernet to router - BENCHMARK
2) Laptop connect via Powerline on ground floor
3) Laptop connected wirelessly on ground floor
4) Laptop connect via Powerline in attic (i.e. same electric circuit)
5) Laptop connected wirelessly in attic, next to routeer
Internet - 2.7 Mbs in all cases
LAN performance Writing data
1)75 Mps Benchmark..PC...ethernet....route
2)10 Mps Powerline...ground floor
3)29 MBps Wireless...ground floor
4)42 MBps Powerline....attic
5)23 MBps Laptop...attic
LAN Performance Reading data
1)65 Mps Benchmark..PC...ethernet....route
2)10 Mps Powerline...ground floor
3)25 MBps Wireless...ground floor
4)45 MBps Powerline....attic
5)29 MBps Laptop...attic
Conclusion: Will work well for internet connectivity, not so well for pulling large files around the network unless on the same electrical circuit.
This really is as simple as it gets. Plug one box into your router and into your wall socket. Plug the other in somewhere else, and instant network. Literally takes a couple of minutes and couldn't be simpler. They are even compatible with other makes of powerline socket, as long as they all conform to the 'homeplug powerline alliance' standard.
One slight drawback is that, according to the instructions, the powerplugs won't work if you plug them into an extension block. This is a huge drawback, especially if, like me, you live in an old house with barely any sockets. There is even a sticker blocking the connections on the devices, telling you that they won't work on extensions. You have to peel it off, so there is no excuse for not knowing! However, I only have 6 sockets in the entire house, so extensions are essential. I can't use these if I can't use extensions, so I blithley ignored all the warnings and plugged them into to my 8-way gangs anyway...and it worked. I suspect it wouldn't be working if I had RCDs, or surge devices in place, but these are bog standard cheapies and they work fine. I have a sneaking suspicion I'm also losing a bit of speed, but if it works I'm happy.
I'm very happy indeed with these. I have several network drives full of photographs which, until now, had to keep in the living room so they'd be near my router. Now, I've got them in the spare room, humming away, out of sight and still fully accessable. Excellent!
Setting this up couldn't be simpler. Shove one end in a dedicated mains socket near your router, connect the network cable to the router end, plug the other end in, connect the other network cable and your device is up and running. New build houses with dedicated fuse boxes will get the top speeds.
Absolutely great, considering another pair for other parts of the house.
Plugged in one unit to my BT Hub and the mains.
Plugged in the other into the mains and into my Freesat box. Read more
are connected to different electrical circuits in your home,that could be... Read more
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