octaglider's Review of Devolo dLAN 200 AV Starter Kit Wireless Modems and Routers Reviews
31st Oct 2007
Overall Rating
- Value for money
- Ease of Set Up
- Time Modem and Networking Equipment Owned1 - 6 Months
- Ease of Use
Great piece of kit.
Bad Points
The price. I want to buy a 3rd adapter for another PC but this will set me back about £70 inc vat. Hopefully this will come down in price.
General Comments
I would thoroughly recommend the Devolo 200Mbps kit but you need to be aware that it's not very happy (won't work in my case) through surge protectors. That said, I have to report that I'm tickled pink with these, as they've sold by far the biggest problem I had across my home network - connectivity.
Many products offer the earth in terms of performance, and disappoint almost immediately. Not so with the Devolo. I'd hesitated buying yet another piece of untried kit but wireless reception across my home is patchy and that's being generous.
Like most people I don't do what I should, that is read installation manuals. Luckily for me I found that plugging in the Devolo into the mains along with plugging the ethernet cable into my router and then doing likewise at the other end of the house with my wife's laptop produced immediate success.
I also installed the software and encrypted the signal - very straightforward.
Probably the best bit of news is the performance. No kit ever gets close to its stated performance figures and the truly ancient and complicated wiring in the house had me as worried as buying the unknown kit in the first place. However, I'm currently looking at 119Mbps upstream and 131 Mbps downstream. The connection is rock solid and very reliable.
The units reduce power by 30% when they detect that there's no connection through them - neat.
If the price is right for you, go get 'em.
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