NETGEAR Powerline Ethernet Adapter Kit PLP2000, 2 Pack, 2000 Mbps

I am impressed how easy these were to install and how much they improved toe performance of my laptop and ROKU. The instructions did say not to use a surge protector. I used the choose an outlet lights and got a great connection to through the surge protector!! No more lost time waiting for videos to download. Wish I would have this improvement a year ago!!

I bought two pairs of these for streaming stability between my devices. For example, I use these to plug in my steam deck and main pc to ethernet so when I want to stream a game from my pc to the steam deck it is a LOT more stable than over wifi connection.I also stream out to YT and Twitch and I have never had a problem with stability of the signal after getting these. You will not get the full power of your upload and download speed depending on your house's electrical wiring, and that can vary from place to place, but the speeds that you do get are consistent and stable. When you set up your first set of devices, it may require some set up, pressing the pairing button on both devices, but once it is connected, I could just plug and play the second set that I got later on. I eventually want to get a set of these for each room of my house, as my research states the more nodes you have, the stronger and more stable the connection becomes overall because the plugs are on different circuits of the house. Would recommend, especially for far away rooms of your house that may not get as much wifi signal.

I bought this NETGEAR Powerline Kit to fix weak WiFi and packet loss on my second floor that my Google mesh system couldn't handle. A tip for new buyers: your house wiring matters more than anything else. Initially, I only got 50 Mbps. After some testing, I found that the speed depends entirely on the electrical circuits. In the same room, I hit 500 Mbps, but for my actual setup, I had to map my breakers. Once I found an outlet on the second floor that shared a circuit with one in the basement, I achieved a stable 250–300 Mbps. It’s a great, stable alternative to WiFi if you’re willing to experiment with different outlets!

Had two, bought another pair to add a line. Have one left over. Took ten minutes to add the new line. Works great. But NONE of them get anything like 2000Mbps. No idea under what circumstances someone could get those (in the same room maybe?). The home is a brand new upscale dwelling and most of the time we have amber lights = 50-80Mbps. Occasionally we get green, but only when I'm the only one here and most of the appliances are turned off (dishwasher etc). But even on amber, it streams movies in HD just fine. Not sure how well a video game would play. So the set up is easy. The connection is VERY solid. They are a great way to deal with dead spots. But the speed is not impressive. Edit While the speed is seldom great unless you're practically in the same room (less electrical noise I suppose), they are amazingly reliable. Interesting thing happened. It would not talk to one of the the much OLDER Powerlines on the circuit so I dusted off the old twin and TWO Powerline bases made 15 years apart attached to the router. Had to add yet another one for a medical device (different manufacturer) provided by the medical device manufacturer (for HIPAA). The second IT linked in my router could no longer see my modem and we lost internet!!! Took a bit of experimentation. Knowing that having two Powerlines acting as a base is irregular, we eventually disconnected the old one, assuming we'd have to upgrade its twin upstairs. Nope. After putting the newest one in the circuit for a few minutes the very old one FINALLY recognized this one, the Netgear 2000 we were using as a base!! Keep in mind, we never touched the elderly twin Netgear Powerline upstairs, we just removed its twin attached to the router and added the new one by some other manufacturer provided by the medical people into the Powerline network via a socket elsewhere in the house! And the oldest one even works now if we remove the medical one! Weird. FYI Powerline can apparently blind your router to your modem under very specific circumstances. Never did determine why the oldest Powerline couldn't see the 2000 for that year or how the introduction of the other manufacturers Powerline fixed it. Have wondered if they have the ability to update the firmware - something I'm not aware Netware can do - and updated our elderly Powerline. Once it recognized the 2000, something happened to its now superfluous twin. Everything works now and that's all that matters. Life's never dull with hardware.

This product has now failed on me TWICE within 1 year. Purchased beginning of 2020. Failed in June, 2020 (no power, no connectivity, no lights, item plugged in doesn't work). I worked with Netgears horrible support back then and paid the $16.90 to get it replaced and sent back. NOW...last week it failed A SECOND TIME. Called Netgear support today...and was on the phone for them for almost 3 hours (I swear...I am not kidding). After creating the ticket, transferred to the wrong person, then transferred to another person that also didn't have experience with powerlines who was trying to find someone, and then dumped without any warning to the beginning of another holding queue. I finally spoke to someone, albeit a very new customer support rep, that was at least trying to be helpful. After repeating my entire story a fourth time...and having to give my case number and serial number multiple times (twice to this rep), he at least tried to help me. I hung in there with him while he tried to diagnose with me until he asked me to try to sync the 2 devices together. Seriously...there are no lights on the one failed device...it is completely dead...and the outlet doesn't even work...and you actually still want me to arrange my whole other location to to try to sync them together? There are no lights on the unit... so that is where I drew the line. As I knew when I first made the call, he informed me that they could replace the hardware. However, by the time it came up that they would RMA the product, I either have to pay $17.00 (a second time no) for them to send to me...or I pay shipping to them. After 2 3/4 hours, 2 product failures, you actually want me to pay another $17 for something that so far has a 100% failure rate? Unacceptable! At this point, I am waiting for a "team leader" to call me back. BTW...there are other reviews here and other places that have the same exact example...works...then stops working. This product must have an issue with it to fail like this. However, above all, Netgear support has been the worst that I have experienced in at least 24 years (even worse than ISP...lol). It is a disgrace to a company that I have had allegiance to for many, many years! Well...to add fuel to the fire...after sending 3 more follow-up requests about Netgear taking ownership of this issue by contacting me and working through a solution by sending me a replacement...they actually closed the ticket without even responding to me by a phone call or email. Horrible, horrible support!! I tried to open another support request...I received an email back with a ticket number with them REQUIRING ME TO CALL THEM. After my last 2 1/2 hour horrible support request...I refuse to go through that fiasco again. Now I have 2 unusable pieces of junk here and no internet to my living room. I don't know what happened to Netgear...it looks like their quality is substandard...and that they don't stand behind their products anymore. If you like sub-par products with horrible support that is farmed out overseas (where they will not call or write you back)...then buy Netgear. If you want better quality product and better service...then I would explore other options like TrendNet, D-Link, or Linksys. I just purchased another switch...which is by Trendnet. Whenever it's time to replace my router...it will NOT be from Netgear. It's sad to say...but Netgear will never get a dime from me....ever again.

I live at my mom's house, and I don't have permission for my parents to run an ethernet cable across the house. If you cannot and your Wi-Fi is not stable at 2 to 3 room distances this is perfect for you. I have ran tests too see if the Wi-Fi router being in my room not near a window versus next to a window with this adapter and found only small bandwidth reduction for downloading and uploading. And speeds similar to a ethernet connection directly to the router. A 4 ms delay in connection. I am not sponsored to say this but if you cannot get direct connection this is the number one solution I will give to anybody.

Good: I like the power pass thru and dual ethernet ports. Super simple setup. Relatively compact. Responsive tech support. Bad: Tech support confirmed older design (circa 2018), no diagnostics, monitor, settings available. Even with ideal (?) config, I can't see more than about 200Mbps through the two devices. Connection between powerline devices often dropped, blocking all traffic while they try to find each other again. My testbed had 1Gbps internet router to one PL2000, laptop to the other, both devices directly connected to wall plugs in same room (less than 10 feet copper). Best observed speed was about 200Mbps down and 100Mbps up. Netgear tech support Connecting laptop to second RJ45 on router-connected device I get 900Mbps up/down. Possibly my home wiring has more noise than I realize, but there's no way to really tell.

Wow so happy I found this. My job required a wire internet for work and my router was upstairs so this enabled me to get a wired internet connection downstairs. Thanks for saving my job this works beautifully!

MUY BIEN

Bought for home use. Realized it came in a different plug type for my country, but I currently use it with an adapter, and it still gives decent speed and stable connection.

I am using this to get internet to my security system in the detached garage. Works great. I have a few electrical panels in the house - so I just needed to connect to an outlet on the same panel that connects to the garage sub panel and it worked well. Speeds are good and setup is easy. Would have set this up years ago if I knew it would be so easy. Just followed the instructions. Also used a laptop to test the speed at a few outlets to see what would work best for me.

Tenho 02 pares. Muito rápido e confiável. As 02 portas ethernet ajudam muito. Na minha fiação velha ele chega a marcar 128Mbps. Fácil de usar e configurar.

It actually works! Have an extension on the other side of my house that is separated by brick. Mesh wifi was useless because the signal couldn’t penetrate and I debated if it was worth it to run an Ethernet cable. I used this thing and I finally have consistent internet service to that area! You’re not going to get the advertised speeds, but it’s a stable connection and allows for two ports. I plug this into one of my Wi-Fi pucks and I’ve gotten 50 MBPs down in that area (which is all I need) but have a 1.5 gigabit plan.