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This is a good way to extend your in house network without pulling cables through walls. Considering some walls don't allow cable transit, this is a very easy way to connect a near but unreachable location to your router.
Bought this product instead of wireless. It works well, is faster, and more secure than wireless connection. There are some places in a house that wireless simply will not broadcast. This is the alternative.
Pretty soon I will have spent more on shipping them back than I originally bought them for. When they work they work great, but it has been rare that they have both worked at the same time. I have sent 3 sets back to DLink, and they always return a used scratched up set (sometmes just thrown into a box without packing material) and they have all failed within a month of receipt. One of my latest pair failed within two weeks again. I would definitely avoid this defective product, and I will never buy another Dlink product again.
I bought this unit to attach to an Xbox 360, and I can stream non-HD video to it in real-time, and Xbox Live games are perfectly responsive. I suspect that those people experiencing dead units are probably in low-quality power areas, so if you think you're in such an area, buy yourself an extended warranty plan, so you can exchange it for immediate replacement with a big-box store. I've had one for a bit over 7 months now, and I have not experienced a dead unit yet. I've also now connected a second router through this device and I now have better connectivity for both wired and wireless throughout the house.Just some notes, never plug the units into a surge protector, as the surge protector will damp out the signals that it's supposed receive over the power mains. The speed of the unit is not nearly as fast as they claim (200Mbps), it's probably 1/10th of that. That's okay, this simply makes it practically as fast as 802.11g wireless, and much more steady throughput than it too. Either plug it directly into a wall socket, or a regular extension cord. Also you might want to be aware that these units are not compatible with the Homeplug AV powerline ethernet standard, they are proprietary to Dlink; so you cannot mix and match these units with Netgear, or Linksys or other powerline ethernet units that may be Homeplug AV-compatible.
The only positive thing I can say is that the product had the decency to fail utterly both times so I didn't spend hours troubleshooting. The first worked intermittently before one of the connectors stopped working altogether after about a week. I have purchased two sets of these. But that's hardly enough to lead me to ever buy another D-Link product. The second set, exchanged for the first, worked fine for two weeks until one of the pair died. I"m done. Home-networking is complicated enough without having products subject, apparently, to absolutely no quality control. I recommend that you not buy anything from this company either.
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