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The D-Link DHP-701AV powerline kit is too huge for its own good

2015-05-20
hi guys demos here and this is the power AV 2 mm gigabit starter kit from dealing now take a look at the box here and the photo here is quite misleading because this is the actual adapter look is huge now normally I have nothing against huge but with this type of products the bigger it is the harder it is for you to use I decide to plug directly into one socket like this the largest I mean it it gonna be hard for you to find a place to plug it in and when you do we're gonna block the adjacent outlet and remember powerline adapters are supposed to be plugged into the wall directly and not via a power strip or shirt protector now that's how to use it it's quite simple the kid here come with two identical adapter here you plug the first one into the existing network such as your router and the second one into a device such as a computer or game console or printer then both of them into their world outlet and you're done they've been turned the electrical wiring between them into network cables and deliver quite fast speed and speed is the second thing is quite misleading about this d-link it because dealing claimed that they can deliver up to 2,000 megabits per second and there's no way they can do that because each adapter here come with a gigabit network port so at best they top at 1000 megabit per second and even that wasn't true in my testing now the sewer here has to sustain real-world copy speed of some 400 megabit per second now to be fair that's quite fast I'm five times the speed of a regular Ethernet connection and currently the fastest in the world of powerline adapters but seriously to a thousand megabit per second who are you kidding so the question is is this a good power like it to have for the answer is not really because it's very expensive at some $160 now I review this Netgear 1200 kit here it costs half the price come with smaller adapter was just tiny bit slower so the bottom line is this one here is still a fast and convenient way to extend your white network without having to run network cables but it's not a good deal because of its high price and the large physical size of the adapters and four more this one here check out my full review as cnet.com basically you'd be very happy if you got this kid for free which I did I'm still not happy though I'm having a bad hair day and that's because I'm dongho and this has been the first look at the powerline AV 2 mm gigabit starter kit for dealing crazy hair
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