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General
BrandNetGear
Item Height
13.8 centimetres
Item Width6.5 centimetres
Technical Details
- Extra Outlet - Noise-fi ltered power outlet for additional devices
- Extend your network - Extend Internet access throughout your home to any electrical outlet for desktop PCs, gaming consoles and set-top boxes
- Gigabit-fast - Speeds up to 500 Mbps enable applications such as streaming mulitmedia, multiplayer gaming, and multiple HD video streams
- Plug-and-play - Sets up in minutes, no need to configure or install software
- Push-and-Secure - Secures the network connection with the touch of a button, no need to remember passwords
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Product Description
Product Description
The NETGEAR Powerline AV+ 500 Adapter Kit extends your Internet access to any electrical outlet for the most demanding applications. It offers easy, plug-and-play setup and provides faster speeds for the most demanding applications. Perfect for connecting HDTVs, Blu-ray players, DVRs, PCs and game consoles to your home network and the Internet. An extra filtered power outlet ensures you will have space to plug in a power strip for all your home office or home theater devices.
Product Description
Netgear POWERLINE AV 500 ADAPTER KIT UK XAVB5501100UKS Networks Powerline Networking
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
I purchased these adaptors and some Netgear XAVB5001 Powerline AV 500 Adapter Kit to upgrade a powerline network based upon some older Netgear HDX101 adaptors. I bought a mixture because I wanted the plug-through option in some places - experience has taught me that plugging into power bars or, even worse, surge protectors really do reduce the performance of powerline technology.
Setup was dead easy - just plug and play and the devices establish the network on their own.
No need for the management software supplied on the CD, but I installed it anyway and had problems - it ran once and then kept failing. Uninstalling and reinstalling didn't help. However, I downloaded a newer version from Netgear's support site and that was fine so I'm still giving the product 5 stars. I also updated the adaptors to the latest firmware by downloading the update utilities from Netgear. Firmware update can be achieved over the network - no need to plug a PC directly to each adaptor in turn.
The performance has been great. Forget the headline 500 Mbps number - that is the physical rate and real world performance is unlikely to come close, just as with many other networking technologies. The real question is whether or not the network will reliably handle multiple devices (PCs, TVs, game consoles) accessing the Internet, including streaming video. The answer is very definitely yes.
I've got multiple ring mains and tested access to my 50Mbit/s Internet connection across two ring mains. The result was excellent - more or less 50 Mbit/s reported from multiple tests. Faster speeds might be achieved between PCs in the home, but I haven't bothered to test. (The HDX101s only managed 9-10 Mbit/s over two ring mains, although they did deliver 25 Mbit/s on a single ring main.) I can also reliably access iPlayer HD content from a TV, whereas with the older devices even SD content experienced problems at times.
Setup was dead easy - just plug and play and the devices establish the network on their own.
No need for the management software supplied on the CD, but I installed it anyway and had problems - it ran once and then kept failing. Uninstalling and reinstalling didn't help. However, I downloaded a newer version from Netgear's support site and that was fine so I'm still giving the product 5 stars. I also updated the adaptors to the latest firmware by downloading the update utilities from Netgear. Firmware update can be achieved over the network - no need to plug a PC directly to each adaptor in turn.
The performance has been great. Forget the headline 500 Mbps number - that is the physical rate and real world performance is unlikely to come close, just as with many other networking technologies. The real question is whether or not the network will reliably handle multiple devices (PCs, TVs, game consoles) accessing the Internet, including streaming video. The answer is very definitely yes.
I've got multiple ring mains and tested access to my 50Mbit/s Internet connection across two ring mains. The result was excellent - more or less 50 Mbit/s reported from multiple tests. Faster speeds might be achieved between PCs in the home, but I haven't bothered to test. (The HDX101s only managed 9-10 Mbit/s over two ring mains, although they did deliver 25 Mbit/s on a single ring main.) I can also reliably access iPlayer HD content from a TV, whereas with the older devices even SD content experienced problems at times.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Got these to replace a rather ugly cat5 cable currently snaking round our house. I was going to replace the current white non-installed cable with a black proper exterior cat5 cable (and all the hassle of installing it) and then came across powerline networking adapters. After quite a lot of research, these beauties came out top as the only adapters which really do stream video effectively. They arrived today, plugged em in, pressed the little security button on each one and hey presto - it works. Am playing DVDs which have been ripped to hard drive and then streaming them across these powerline devices to our network enabled Sony blu-ray player. Works like a dream! Initially it was stuttering, but after a reboot of the BT Infinity router, it worked fine - demonstrating it was the router not these devices at fault. Not tried it with HD video, but SD seems to work fine to the other end of the house.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
This product does exactly what it says on the tin - well, you know what I mean. I have BT Infinity (downstairs lounge) and desktop computer above (upstairs bedroom) which was connected wirelessly with a speed of 13-18 megabits per second. This product has changed that to at least 33Mb/s. It did come with a CD of software (drivers?) but this proved unnecessary - Windows 7 - as I just plugged one unit into my router and nipped upstairs and plugged the other into the PC. These are different domestic circuits - my Consumer Unit is divided into Downstairs and Upstairs sockets.
I am very pleased with this product, although it is not exactly cheap, hence four not five stars.
I am very pleased with this product, although it is not exactly cheap, hence four not five stars.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Excellent Piece of Kit
I bought these after I recently upgraded my broadband to BT Infinity. Whilst the the new Homehub router that comes with it is pretty good, it is sitting in a cupboard downstairs... Read more
Published 1 month ago by John
Great!!!
I am really pleased with this item. Was really easy to use...
Thumbs up for me!!!
I would highly recommend.
Thumbs up for me!!!
I would highly recommend.
Published 1 month ago by roselika
Net gear power line +500
Previously had 85 Mbps version. Plugged in and worked pretty much straight away after running the supplied utility. Far less hassle than cables. Read more
Published 7 months ago by elephantboy
Works really well, and quick setup
Used this for about a week now. Really quick to setup and configure and the pass-through feature for the mains plug is a really useful feature. Read more
Published 8 months ago by C. Slorach
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