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Encouraged by positive reviews, I tried using these to connect two Airport Extreme Base Stations (AEBS) separated by one floor and about 60 feet apart. The AEBSs were set up extend a 802.11n network wirelessly. Connecting them using these powerline adapters made the speed to drop considerably. I tested transferring a 200 MB file: with AEBSs connected wirelessly the transfer rate was about 13Mbs; with powerline adapters it dropped to 2-3Mbs.

I concluded that the wiring inside the house is not suitable for using this technology.

Otherwise, the product seems to be a polished product with easy setup.

I was so hesitant to try powerline ethernet, but I am so glad I did.

Unpacking the box of contents took longer than the setup itself. It's so easy to setup this little Belkin Powerline AV adaptor. Just plug both adaptors into their respective walls, one cable to your computer, one cable to your router and voila! instant broadband at speeds equal to what I get with my computer directly plugged into the router. I ran the broadband speed test at www.speedtest.net to confirm this.

My wife uses the PC downstairs and our apartment is about 2000 square feet. The cable modem is located upstairs at the opposite end of the house. My wireless G router would not reach downstairs, so I wasn't confident that an expensive N router would improve things.

If you have any doubts about trying powerline ethernet, with this little Belkin you can put them to rest. I believe that with any normal use of the product (believe it or not, some people use these things over multiple apartments in the same building or neighboring buildings) you will be much happier than with some of the wireless solutions.

I currently live in Spain and my broadband provider is ONO. On average we get 18Mbit to 20Mbit downloads and 500Kbps to 1Mbit uploads with ping times around 30-45ms...it's very fast, and I'm impressed this Belkin can keep up with what I'm paying for. With wireless G, I was only getting at most around 6Mbit downloads---so, you can see that wifi can drop your internet speeds significantly...

Hope this helps...

This is a very cool product. If you currently have long Cat 5 cable runs on the floor this device fixes that.

There is no set up. Plugged both adapters into my 120 outlets, waited a couple of minutes for them to find each other and then I plugged my router into on adapter, my laptop into the other across the room. My laptop just felt it was part of my home network. laptop is running at 100 Mbps, much faster then it was using wireless.

I even plugged a hub into the adapter near my laptop and when I work from home have two laptops running with no drop in network performance. Currently use IP phones on my work computer and there is no interference caused by the devices.

This device added my much flexibility to my home network.

I recently bought a Playstation 3 for my HDTV which is in the living room downstairs. There is no RJ-45 jack downstairs near my HDTV, so I thought maybe the wireless card on the PS3 would be enough to handle my networking needs. Boy, was I wrong!

The wireless on the PS3 was dead slow. I thought about getting a 60ft Cat5 cable and running down the stairs, but that would've been too ugly, so I decided to give the Belkin 200 Powerline a try. That was the best thing I could've done. Steady connections and way faster than wireless. Games download in a flash, video conversations are seamless. Setup was a breeze too...just plug and play!

The price is a bit on the high side, but it is totally worth it.

I reviewed all the current "Powerline Adapters" and this was reviewed to be the best. After receiving the unit, setup was very easy and I could not notice a difference in speed to my hardwired high-speed cable internet service. It is fast enough to stream video without a problem. A great piece of engineering.