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today I have an unboxing of an item that looks not very interesting a single powerline adapter from Netgear why is this cool well because it is compliant with the draft standard 1905 point one HiFi or hybrid fidelity standard from qualcomm so what's interesting about that is that it is going to turn power line into something from something that's kind of niche requires multiple adapters and isn't really integrated with the rest of your network in a meaningful way it's gonna turn that as well as wireless access points that operate on power line and wireless range extenders into something that automatically provides fail-safes automatically picks the optimal path for your network to travel in order to give you the best possible networking throughout your entire home so that sounds like very vague and very nebulous so what I'll do is I'll give you guys an example over here no I'm gonna read only here I have a 1905 compliant router so this router has your standard wired wireless interfaces and it has a plug that goes into the wall and turns your entire house into a power line ready network right here I have a completely the wrong brand powerline adapter this is Netgear the router that I have is dealing but it has the high-five software loaded on it which means that it can communicate with this in fact all hi-fi compliant devices will with one button configuration figure out how to communicate with each other in order to pick the best possible path so here here's my hypothetical network so I plug this into the wall I got some computer plugged in here I've got a wireless phone here my phone is operating off of wireless and then I take this powerline adapter and I go plug it in somewhere else entirely okay so if I have all of my network devices enabled on and say something like a notebook I will go Wi-Fi automatically now with this software patch assuming all of my adapters and all of my equipment is compatible what it'll do is if I plug into here it will automatically go over power line if I plug into a wire it will automatically go over wired so what it'll do is it'll intelligently figure out what the best possible path so if I have a TV let's say my TV has built-in Wi-Fi okay and then I'll have something else plugged in by Ethernet so it'll automatically go okay the quickest possible way the best possible way with the best signal is to go through Ethernet and then go wirelessly to the TV or it might decide that's not the best what if my house is really big and I have either a powerline or some other kind of access point that or a range extender setup on my network your range extender as long as it's high five ready you're okay get this your router will know to take the wired signal and pass it not directly to the TV but to the enabled range extender which will then pass it to the TV if that is the strongest signal that it can achieve so that's what's cool about this it will allow us to take power line which I'm a huge advocate of if you guys want to need my videos you probably already know that and turn it into something that works seamlessly between manufacturers right now the only way to set up powerline is you go Ethernet cable from the back your router into a powerline adapter powerline adapter into the wall and then you have another powerline adapter somewhere else that goes out with an Ethernet cable to something else well now we're taking out one of them so we're reducing the overall cost of implementation for powerline and we're making it more interoperable so you don't have to worry about all if I buy this powerline adapter now and I want to expand my network later and I can't get it anymore it's not going to be compatible you don't think about that anymore as long as it's 19:05 compliant then you'll be able to use completely mismatched hardware like this and build your network in a way that is seamlessly upgradable and intelligently decides what is the fastest way to move your data around that seems like a very good thing to me and since this is technically an unboxing of the powerline AV 500 adapter I should probably talk about this guy a little bit it's got a gigabit connection on it and that's not necess barely something you might consider relevant but it is because even though it's only a 500 megabit per second powerline adapter many 500 megabit per second powerline adapters and 200 megabits per second powerline adapters include only ten hundred ports which means that unless you're using multiple adapters in which case it behaves more like a hub you are actually going to be limited by this port rather than by the powerline interface itself so why would you need a 500 megabits per second powerline adapter well if you wanted to stream multimedia multiple HD streams and have a gigabit connection you would need that otherwise a 200 megabit per second connection is probably fine you can actually stream HD over 200 megabit just fine as long as you aren't running multiple powerline adapters because like I said multiple powerline adapters will act as a hub so that means that instead of sending the data only where it goes powerline will actually transmit the data to every node on the network and so you can end up with a lot of overhead if you have a whole bunch of powerline devices so I'd say anywhere from you know two to probably around five is about all you really want to do although most households won't need much more than that so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the powerline AV 500 adapter don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos