Review on 🔌 ZyXEL 1800Mbps Pass-Through Powerline Adapter 2-Port Gigabit Ethernet Kit (2-Pack, Brown Box) [PLA5456BBKIT] by Jennifer Lyon

Pros: It's Powerline Ethernet and offers a wired network connection, but that's about it. Cons: Bandwidth is only about 220Mbps, even to my LAN. ft in the best scenario I've tested, both on an idle line and in a relatively new house built a few years ago) I've even tried connecting this to redundant 10Gb/s cables, just in case the supplied cables were junk. still 220 Mbit/s. .I've used much cheaper powerline ethernet kits that work better than this one. My internet download speeds also dropped from an average of 950Mbps Down/Up when connected directly to my router to the same 220Mbps via this powerline kit, so this appears to be a device limitation. While some speed loss is to be expected with the PowerLine adapter, throughput seems to be the bottleneck for this PowerLine adapter. I'm assuming it's using a cheap chipset that can't handle a full 1Gbps load. The download speed was about the same. Luckily the average ping time didn't increase when using this powerline adapter kit, so I guess that's a plus? versus. You cannot connect both network connections of the sending side of the kit to your network to try to duplicate them or get two bandwidths. If you do, it will attempt to reassign addresses to your switch through one of the ports, essentially resulting in a denial of service attack that will cause your entire network connection (even wired devices) to go down if you don't use DOS. or DDOS protection in your network. Why it's configured in such a way that there might be a network drop if you use both ports isn't clear to me. It looks like this should work like 2 ports to 2 ports for the receiving PowerLine adapter. Maybe I received a defective set? Finally, a wired connection is definitely provided if you really need it and can't work. Wired connection another way, but don't expect gigabit speed. And please don't plug both ports into one router or switch, that's no fun for anyone.