Works well enough for me in my home office. I had been using a wifi N bridge for the first year and a half or so after moving to this house, and it sort of worked Ok most of the time, even for my VOIP phone, except when I would try to transfer files across the bridge. Something about that action majorly bogged things down. Even files just a few hundred KB would cause my network connection to become unusable for several minutes (that's not an exaggeration). Just browsing an SMB share seemed noticeably slower than one would expect over wifi. I think I must have been just on the edge of that thing's effective range.
The move to powerline networking has alleviated those problems. It is handling heavy two-way traffic like those file transfers much more smoothly than the wifi bridge, and it doesn't choke while doing so. It basically feels like being on ethernet.
They're not kidding about surge protectors. I did try running these through some, just as an experiment, and they didn't like it. I either got no link, or a red indicator (indicating the bare minimum speed, and probably not stable).
Because the above proved true, I did have to mess around a bit with my power and network wiring in order to maintain surge protection for my other devices. I'm not going to plug this thing directly into the wall and then run an ethernet cable straight from there into my other devices. So, I got two surge protectors with ethernet protection and put them in between these and the other network devices. This does mean I'm only getting 100mbps links (gigabit doesn't work through those surge protectors) but it's plenty fast enough for my office situation, and MUCH more usable than the wifi solution ever was.
| Wireless Type | 802.11ad |
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